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The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394427424
- ISBN 13
- 9780394427423
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. -. 1. Hard Cover. 0394427424 . Publisher's full maroon cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, photographs on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxix, (iii), 718, (1) pp .
Synopsis
The war declared by the Boers of South Africa on October 11, 1899, gave the British, as Kipling said, 'No end of a lesson.' The public expected it to be over by Christmas. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and most humiliating war that Great Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25795
- Title
- The Boer War
- Author
- Pakenham, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- -. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394427424
- ISBN 13
- 9780394427423
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0394427424, History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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