Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa, 1903-1926
by Kittenberger, Kalman
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co., 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1929 Longmans, Green & Co. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Top pages edges are red. Tissued frontispiece. Black and white plates. Fold out map in rear. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Top edge of front cover worn, with some fraying; board visible in a few small spots. Covers lightly soiled, with a several one-inch diameter spots on front cover. Page edges have some light spots and very small stains. Endpapers lightly foxed. Two pages have a light tanned area where a small piece of old newspaper was stored between them. Last two leaves of text have a two-inch tear at the fore edge of the pages. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 348 pages. Translated from Hungarian. "With 200 illustrations". No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7291
- Title
- Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa, 1903-1926
- Author
- Kittenberger, Kalman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Hunting,Africa,Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Hunting; Africa;
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Leaves
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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