The Valiant But Once
by Metrowich, F. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1956). 8vo; original red boards, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 230, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing to reverse of spine at head and tail; pages foxed and browned. Good. An account of the Cape colony's troubled eastern frontier and some of its key historical figures. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11697
- Title
- The Valiant But Once
- Author
- Metrowich, F. C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1956)
- Keywords
- Frontier Wars. Xhosa. 1820 Settlers. Cuyler Eastern Cape
- Bookseller catalogs
- Eastern Cape;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...