Stirring Adventure in African Travel
by Charles Bruce
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
W. P. Nimmo Hay & Mitchell, 1890. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1890. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrations throughout. Severe cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards to be loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Pencil marking to front board. Water staining to rear board.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1714988219ALK
- Title
- Stirring Adventure in African Travel
- Author
- Charles Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W. P. Nimmo Hay & Mitchell
- Date Published
- 1890
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...