Regulations for the Instruction and Movements of The Colonial Mounted Troops
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Saul Solomon & Co., Printers, Cape Town, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 178 pages of instruction, plus marching music scores and parade ground diagrams. A VERY, VERY RARE COPY. Full black leather boards with stamped gilt titling. The boards are worn, scuffed, marked all about. The titling is bold. The spine has much wear to the head and the foot. Previous owner signature on the frontispage. The frontis and end papers are tanned. The guttering along the frontis page is a little cracked - but the security of the book is unaffected. The papertrims have very light storage marks. The pages have scant evidence of use. There are some shallow handling/ printing waves. The pages are gratifyingly clean and clear and smart, orderly, certain, unmarked by the years or owner, companionable and comfortable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chapter 1 Books (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14rr
- Title
- Regulations for the Instruction and Movements of The Colonial Mounted Troops
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Saul Solomon & Co., Printers, Cape Town
- Date Published
- 1881
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africana - Military;
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About the Seller
Chapter 1 Books
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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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...