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Head-Hunters _ Black, White, and Brown
by Haddon, Alfred C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Methuen, 1901. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 426 pp, very light dent on top edge of front cover, spine stained and chipped at the ends, edges trimmed, fore edge foxed, "Mervyn G. Williams" (owner)'s bookplate on front paste down, label of "W. H. Smith & Son's Library" at bottom right of same end paper, pages all throughout foxed
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Details
- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94836
- Title
- Head-Hunters _ Black, White, and Brown
- Author
- Haddon, Alfred C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- anthropology, ethnography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
Terms of Sale
San Francisco Book Company
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
San Francisco Book Company
Biblio member since 2008
Paris
About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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