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The Soul of Central Africa - A General Account of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition
by Roscoe, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell and Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking rear free endpaper. Narrow split to guttter at rear hinge. Fading and flecking to spine cloth. With the front panel, front flap (blank), and rear panel of the dust-jacket. Lacking dust-jacket spine and rear flap. Dust-jacket pieces now held together in archival mylar cover. ; xvi, 336 pages + frontispiece + 26 illustrations on 16 plate leaves + folding colour map. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, black lettering on front board. Oval gilt and black illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 232 x 157mm. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20609
- Title
- The Soul of Central Africa - A General Account of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition
- Author
- Roscoe, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1922
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Leaves
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- Cloth
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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