A Breath of the Wilds
by Foran, W. Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(London: Robert Hale, 1958). First edition. 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 206, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper slightly damp-rippled, somewhat rubbed, edgeworn, with a little loss; club book label and ownership inscription to front free endpaper; edges and endpapers a little foxed; merest suggestion of damp ingress to top edges of boards. Good condition. (Czech, p. 99) "Among Foran's numerous adventures in this book are his hunts after the Big Five, crocodiles and various antelope species in Kenya." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12521
- Title
- A Breath of the Wilds
- Author
- Foran, W. Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Robert Hale, 1958)
- Keywords
- First editions. Hunting. Safari. East Africa Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...