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The Story of an African Farm
by Olive Schreiner
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$14.57A$11.66
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About This Item
London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1953 Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Collins Classics No.610. Acclaimed novel by the South African author and anti war campaigner Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), with an introduction by S C Cronwright-Schreiner. 285pp with bibliography, illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering to spine, top edges tinted, patterned endpapers. Slight bumping to top edge and corners and ex libris label to pastedown, otherwise very good copy. Unclipped DJ has slight creasing and small nicks to edges and minimal fading to spine, otherwise good..
Synopsis
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015716
- Title
- The Story of an African Farm
- Author
- Olive Schreiner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Collins Clear-Type Press
- Place of Publication
- London & Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectable Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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