The Ivory Child
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ unmarked, fading spine gilt.
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: McKinlay Stone & Mackenzie, 1924. Reprint.. Hardcover in maroon cloth boards w gilt spine titling, no jacket.. Good+ unmarked, fading spine gilt.. Allan Quartermain novel, (1916) about an expedition into Africa in search of a white woman. Solid clean tight copy.
5 x 7-1/2, 377 pp, b/w frontispiece, decorative endpapers.
5 x 7-1/2, 377 pp, b/w frontispiece, decorative endpapers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26800
- Title
- The Ivory Child
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in maroon cloth boards w gilt spine titling, no jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ unmarked, fading spine gilt.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McKinlay Stone & Mackenzie
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Criticism
Terms of Sale
edburynbooks
Books are returnable for full refund but the buyer pays the return postage. If the book was as described by the seller, no original postage charge will be refunded.
About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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