White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya 1870 - 1931 (2 Vol Set)
by HUXLEY, ELSPETH
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Macmillan & Co 1935. 2 VOL SET, LACKS D/W, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xiii + 315pp, vol 2- vii + 333pp, illus/photos, folding maps- not counted presumed all present, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spines & boards, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, moderate creasing/folding to pgs 181-186 of vol 1, sl cracking to some gutters)
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- Title
- White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya 1870 - 1931 (2 Vol Set)
- Author
- HUXLEY, ELSPETH
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co 1935
- Keywords
- Africa British colonisation colonization history Kenya Lord Delamere empire
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...