The Country of the Dwarfs
by Du Chaillu, Paul
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. Cloth. Good. Smaller book, red-brown cloth with beveled edges, ornate gilt illustration with title and author in gilt on front very good, orante gilt illustration on most of spine just good, covers slightly worn overall, badly worn at tips, very tiny tears with little threading to spine top and bottom edges, dark stain at center back, browned inside covers and adjacent end papers also lightly stained, 314 pages plus 6-page catalog. Pencil note on second front end paper, tissued-covered frontispiece showing European with caricature of African king. Ilustrations throughout of Africa exploration. Near Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19756
- Title
- The Country of the Dwarfs
- Author
- Du Chaillu, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- Africa Exploration Tribe-Pygmy
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...