SAVAGE SUDAN: Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
by Chapman Abel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First Edition. With 248 illustrations, chiefly from sketches by the author, and a folding map. Large 8vo, publisher's original dark-green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover with gilt pictorial device, top edge gilt. xx, 452, including appendices and index pp. A very well preserved, bright and handsome copy, the binding strong and sound and the text-block in very good order. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. An in-depth study of the wildlife of the Sudan, conducted over a period of fifty years by this great naturalist.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70090
- Title
- SAVAGE SUDAN: Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
- Author
- Chapman Abel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gurney and Jackson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1921
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About the Seller
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- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
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- Device
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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