Curtain-Up on South Africa
by Garry Allighan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
T V Boardman and Co, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1960. No Edition Stated. 276 pages. Illustrated jacket over black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes photographic plates. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Plates are clean with minor thumbing and foxing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Slightly mottled and dusty overall. Slight water staining to lower parts. Several minor dents to lower boards and edges. Unclipped jacket has some edgewear with chips, tears, minor loss and creasing. Heavy water staining only visible on reverse. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1629212101EWY
- Title
- Curtain-Up on South Africa
- Author
- Garry Allighan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T V Boardman and Co
- Date Published
- 1960
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...