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The Great Thirst Land : A Ride through Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Kalahari Desert
by Gillmore, Parker - "Ubique
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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About This Item
Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 466 pages (complete). A VERY rare first edition copy of this rollicking tale of hunting in Imperial South Africa. The brown cloth covered boards are scuffed, rubbed, worn to edges and corners, to the spine head and foot and seams. The stamped decoration is affable. The gilt titling is genial. The boards are sound and fit. The guttering along the frontispage is cracked. However, the security of the book is unaffected. In general the book is aging at an agreeable pace. The contents are fast, tight and certain. The front pages have age related foxing. The frontispage has a previous owner signature and a publisher's impression ("With the Publishers Compliments"). The end pages are more lightly foxed. The contents do have occasional handling and aging marks, but by far the pages are most satisfyingly healthy. They are clean, clear, certain, confident, contented. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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- Bookseller
- Chapter 1 Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- bzzd
- Title
- The Great Thirst Land : A Ride through Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Kalahari Desert
- Author
- Gillmore, Parker - "Ubique
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York
- Date Published
- 1878
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africana - Travel Writing;
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About the Seller
Chapter 1 Books
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About Chapter 1 Books
Chapter 1 trades out of three premises that are all in the Johannesburg area. Our emphasis is on providing quality books at highly competitive prices. A large (and continuously growing) selection of our books are listed on various websites on the internet. We specialise in Modern First Editions, Rhodesiana, Africana and other rare and out of print books.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- New
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