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Travel and adventures in the Congo Free State and its big game shooting
by NZAU Bula (pseudonym for Henry BAILEY
- Used
- Condition
- VG, with the exception of general age wear to spine, some chips/tears to end pages, uniform light browning to page extremities,
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1894. Hardbound. VG, with the exception of general age wear to spine, some chips/tears to end pages, uniform light browning to page extremities, loose ffep and bookplate inside front cover. Pebbled maroon cloth with embossed lines and top and bottom of covers and spine. Black paste-down and endpapers. A very nice, solid copy of the rare original edition of this book. Some pages unopened, map appears never unfolded. A treasure. From the library of Belle and Kermit Roosevelt, with their bookplate, making this a terrific association copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125168
- Title
- Travel and adventures in the Congo Free State and its big game shooting
- Author
- NZAU Bula (pseudonym for Henry BAILEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - VG, with the exception of general age wear to spine, some chips/tears to end pages, uniform light browning to page extremities,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- ; African Big Game ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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