Alone in the Sleeping-Sickness Country
by Oswald, Felix
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1915. Cloth. Fair. With a map and 70 plates of photographs. Tissue-covered frontispiece photo of water lilies on the Olasi River. Slightly smaller, heavier book, red cloth with embossed and raised design at top front, with gilt on design at spine top, top-edge gilt, badly damaged at inner front hinge between inside front cover and first front end paper, less so at inner back hinge between back cover and final end paper, bottom half of final end paper torn off, 319 heavy pages, top tip to photo between 126 and 126 creased, photos on photo paper throughout, foxing to first front end paper. Very slight surface wear to bottom tips, surface wear spot at center front, microtears with light wear at spine bottom edge. Fair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32541
- Title
- Alone in the Sleeping-Sickness Country
- Author
- Oswald, Felix
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- Africa Exploration Photography
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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- Spine
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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