Trails & Tribes in Southern Africa
by Peter Becker
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1975. Hardcover. Good. 1975. First Edition. 211 pages. Signed by the author. Green leather; gilt tooling to front and gilt titles to spine. Copy no 9 of special limited edition, flat signed and dated by Becker to title page. Photos embedded in text. All text block edges gilt. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Minor scratches to text block edges. Leather slightly rubbed and marked. A few droplet marks to spine. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1645173079MHA
- Title
- Trails & Tribes in Southern Africa
- Author
- Peter Becker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
- Date Published
- 1975
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...