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The Northern Bantu: An Account of some Central African Tribes of the Uganda Protectorate
by John Roscoe
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, light shelf wear, faded spine ends with rubbing to edges and corners/Very good jacket, lightly tattered spine ends with some soiling to tail, 1/4" tear to top of jacket along joint, 1/2" tear along
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About This Item
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1966. Hardcover, 8.75", green cloth boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket, 305 pp. Very good, light shelf wear, faded spine ends with rubbing to edges and corners/Very good jacket, lightly tattered spine ends with some soiling to tail, 1/4" tear to top of jacket along joint, 1/2" tear along seam of front flap with additional very small tears to fellow seams of flaps. Jacket design by Derek Ward.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 826
- Title
- The Northern Bantu
- Author
- John Roscoe
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Derek Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 8.75", green cloth boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket, 305 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, light shelf wear, faded spine ends with rubbing to edges and corners
- Jacket Condition
- Very good jacket, lightly tattered spine ends with some soiling to tail, 1/4" tear to top of jacket along joint, 1/2" tear along
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frank Cass & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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