Early French Callers at the Cape
by STRANGMAN, Edward
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Cape Town: Juta & Co, [n.d.; ca 1936]. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth titled in black on front and spine; [viii],[vi],223pp; black and white illustrations. Remnants of bookplate to front board. Sound but rubbed and spine-sunned; endleaves and adjacent text leaves foxed, else internally clean; Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61054
- Title
- Early French Callers at the Cape
- Author
- STRANGMAN, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Juta & Co
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- Date Published
- [n.d.; ca 1936]
- Bookseller catalogs
- AFL / CIO;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...