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The Africa of Albert Schweitzer
by Joy, Charles R. and Melvin Arnold
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later printing.. Later printing (1953) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with green lettering, small green illustration on cover, green lettering on spine. Light foxing to top board edges, otherwise clean. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. With wonderful photographs by Charles R. Joy, and a Concluding Essay by Albert Schweitzer. 159 pages. Dust jacket is clean and not price clipped, but has edge chipping and short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author and photographer spent time with Albert Schweitzer in his forest hospital at Lambarene, and tell of their experiences in text and pictures, with a concluding essay by Dr. Schweitzer..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30558
- Title
- The Africa of Albert Schweitzer
- Author
- Joy, Charles R. and Melvin Arnold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later printing.
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER, MEDICAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, AFRICA, CHARLES R. JOY, MELVIN ARNOLD, LAMBARENE HOSPITAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical/Health; Africa;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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
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