BADEN-POWELL THE HERO OF MAFEKING
by Aitken, W. Francis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: S. W. Partridge & Co.. Very Good. 1900. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Clean blue leather with a few small scuff marks. Covers have a double ruled gilt border. Spine with raised bands and gilt decorated panels. Marbled endpaper and page edges. Text tight, clean & intact. Prior owners signature. Military, Boer Wars, Mafeking, South Africa ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 175 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15218
- Title
- BADEN-POWELL THE HERO OF MAFEKING
- Author
- Aitken, W. Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; Third Printing
- Publisher
- S. W. Partridge & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Military
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....