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No Room in the Ark
by Alan Moorehead
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1959 Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York. 1959. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to upper and lower tips. DJ: Very Good: light wear to head, tail, and tips; closed tear at top of spine. Mustard cloth boards with teal cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 227 pp 8vo. This book was written after four journeys to Africa where the author who knows and loves the African continent, describes the country, its animals and its peoples, from Johannesburg to Khartoum, in a way that brings vividly to life its strange environment. Written by a true person with concern for the animals, the people, and fast dwindling numbers as civilization encroaches more on their lands. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012984
- Title
- No Room in the Ark
- Author
- Alan Moorehead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Africa, Johannesburg, Khartoum, African animals, African Tribes, lions, elephants, antelopes, giraffe, warthog, Africanhunters, Masai, Karamojong warriors, Turkhana tribe, Abyssinia, Uganda, Game Parks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Animal Stories; African Matters;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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