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The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa, and Some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early Kimberley
by Chilvers, Hedley A
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company, [1939]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. xviii, 344 pp. Bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt, in cream dust jacket printed in orange and black. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece, one color plate and 68 photogravure plates. Blank presentation bookplate of the Directors of De Beers Consolidated Mines to front free endpaper. Very Good, minor fading and rubbing to extremities of binding, damp staining to back free endpaper otherwise internally clean and sound, in Good dust jacket with water staining to several places, chipping and wear to head and tail of spine and extremities, overall age-toning.
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- Garnet Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000061
- Title
- The Story of De Beers With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa, and Some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early Kimberley
- Author
- Chilvers, Hedley A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1939]
- Keywords
- History Business Africa
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- First Edition
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- Tail
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Plate
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Gilt
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