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With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook
by Huxley, Elspeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar)
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: William Morrow & Company, 1964. Minor return address label remnants on ffep, else textblock is clean and tight, green end papers, illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon. Blue cloth spine, bumped at the head and foot, marbled paper boards. Unclipped dust jacket, sunned spine and edges, light shelf wear; Mylar sleeved. 398p., including index.. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by Jonathan Kingdon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB14450
- Title
- With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook
- Author
- Huxley, Elspeth
- Illustrator
- Jonathan Kingdon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Africana, Elspeth Huxley East africa Studies, African Studies, Africa Culture
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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