Bland Slafjagarna [Among the Slave Hunters]; Roman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Stockholm: Ol. Hansens Forlag. Very Good-. 1905. Hardcover. 415 p. 21 cm. Sound binding in cloth-covered boards with gilts and painted titles and decoration and a pastedown illustration on upper board. Slightly cocked. Wear to the corner tips and spine ends. Spine and top edge of lower board are faded. Pencilled numbers and previous owner's name on recto of front free endaper and title page. Small sticker remains on front pastedown. Otherwise, the inside pages are generally clean inside, with edge tanning. An uncredited adventure novel in Swedish possibly intended for youth. The title translates to Among the Slave Hunters and from the black and white engravings it appears to tell a tale of white (English?) men and women and their encounters with African natives and animals. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5526
- Title
- Bland Slafjagarna [Among the Slave Hunters]; Roman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Publisher
- Ol. Hansens Forlag
- Place of Publication
- Stockholm
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Adventure;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....