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Episode in the Transvaal
by Bloom, Harry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1955. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean original unclipped jacket. Clean red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Very slight surface wear at top and bottom spine edges, no fraying, no bumping. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, but tanned. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 295 pp. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), unchipped, with a few short closed edge tears. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's first novel, set in South Africa during the time when South Africans were determined to win the right of self-rule..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019393
- Title
- Episode in the Transvaal
- Author
- Bloom, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- NOVEL HISTORICAL FICTION SOUTH AFRICA SELF-RULE RACE RELATIONS HARRY BLOOM FIRST EDITION AUTHORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Black History;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Tight
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- New
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- First Edition
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