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Metropolitan Life - 100 Years - 1898-1998
by Ensor, Linda
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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About This Item
Metropolitan Life, South Africa, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 96 pages (complete). A most pleasing copy. Landscape format. Cloth covered boards, leather spine. Tipped in illustration plate on the front board. Gilt titling and bordering. The boards have some light scuffing. The illustration is bright and smart. The spine has some wear. In general the covers are elegant. The contents are in near immaculate condition. They are very clean and clear, very healthy and proud, confident, certain, very smart. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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- Bookseller
- Chapter 1 Books
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- chcx
- Title
- Metropolitan Life - 100 Years - 1898-1998
- Author
- Ensor, Linda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Life, South Africa
- Date Published
- 1998
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africana - Business;
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Chapter 1 Books
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About the Seller
Chapter 1 Books
Biblio member since 2006
Johannesburg
About Chapter 1 Books
Chapter 1 trades out of three premises that are all in the Johannesburg area. Our emphasis is on providing quality books at highly competitive prices. A large (and continuously growing) selection of our books are listed on various websites on the internet. We specialise in Modern First Editions, Rhodesiana, Africana and other rare and out of print books.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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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.,...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- First Edition
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