Beasts And Men Being Carl Hagenbeck's Experiences For Half A Century Among Wild Animals
by Hagenbeck, Carl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some staining and marking to boards. Corners of boards knocked and rubbed. Rubbing to cloth at ends of spine. A couple of 1/8" tears to cloth at head of spine. Some water damage stains to front paste down with slight bubbling at top corner of front board. ; [ii], xi, [iii], 299 pages + frontis. Brown cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Illustrated. "An abridged Translation By Hugh S. R. Elliot and A. G. Thacker." Page dimensions: 238mm x 160mm. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7182
- Title
- Beasts And Men Being Carl Hagenbeck's Experiences For Half A Century Among Wild Animals
- Author
- Hagenbeck, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....