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Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongs the Boloki and Other Congo Tribes with a Description of their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion & Laws
by Weeks, John H
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to ffep. Orig. orange cloth. T.E.G. 352 pp. [33] plate illustrations. Bookplates of I. & F.W. Hosken and Maurice Katz. Spine sunned, tilted, creased, lightly worn at ends. Split to foot of front joint. Cloth repairs to spine and hinges. Sunning to extremities, light soling to boards. Very light sporadic foxing to interior.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013939
- Title
- Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongs the Boloki and Other Congo Tribes with a Description of their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion & Laws
- Author
- Weeks, John H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley, Service & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Congo, Africa, Boloki People, John H. Weeks, signed, culture studies, history, anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
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