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White Man's Africa
by Bigelow, Poultney
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York And London: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth, browning on edges and spine, light bumping and rubbing, light soiling. Cocked spine. Page top edges gilt, somewhat spotted. Lightly shaken binding and clean text. Former owner bookplate front pastedown, same name written on title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11978
- Title
- White Man's Africa
- Author
- Bigelow, Poultney
- Illustrator
- R. Caton Woodville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York And London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- History, Colonialism, Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Area Studies / Africa;
Terms of Sale
Old Editions Inc.
MasterCard, Visa, Discover, AmEx and PayPal accepted. Items may be returned within thirty (30) days of receipt, provided they are in the same condition as when ordered. NY residents must add 8.75% sales tax. Heavy or oversized items will require extra postage; international shipping may need to be quoted. All items subject to prior sale.
About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
Biblio member since 2017
North Tonawanda, New York
About Old Editions Inc.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...