A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (Facsimile Reproduction of the 1881 Edition)
by SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Books of Rhodesia 1976. Octavo, deep green heavy card boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, xvii + 465pp, folding map to prelims, VG+ (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners with sl surface loss, v sl tanning & staining to page edges, owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, sl fading to spine, 9cm-12cm tape repairs to edges, light internal staining)
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- Title
- A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (Facsimile Reproduction of the 1881 Edition)
- Author
- SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Books of Rhodesia 1976
- Keywords
- hunting autobiography memoir F C Selous Africa history
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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...
- 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...
- Spine
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- VG
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...