Five Months' Sport in Somali Land
by Colonel Paget
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hard cover published by Chapman and Hall in London in 1894. No dust jacket. Tan covers with gilt design and lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. Spine is darkened. Corners of covers are bumped and worn, and ends of spine are worn and frayed. Covers have some scuffing and stains. Inside front cover has a pasted-on small piece of paper with a number on it in upper corner. Endpapers are heavily foxed, and some pages have foxing. Pullout map in front of book has a tear and some foxing. Book is in fair condition. 108 pages, 1.2 lbs.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 108 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inside the Covers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MSP6904
- Title
- Five Months' Sport in Somali Land
- Author
- Colonel Paget
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Somalia, Africa, African History, Big Game Hunting, Hunting
Terms of Sale
Inside the Covers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2011
Lancaster, Texas
About Inside the Covers
History and Texana books, along with signed first editions.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fair
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- Foxed
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- Jacket
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