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DAVID LIVINGSTONE: The Story Of His Life told by Dora C. Abdy
by Abdy, Dora C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Universities' Mission to Central Africa. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. READING COPY - A Good hardcover in a Fair price-clipped dustjacket. The book is in slightly foxed green boards, lightly bumped to corners, the spine is bumped to the ends, with damage to the head and some lean. Internally, previous owner's name inked to front pastedown, lightly toned pages, foxed to the text-block edges. The scarce, foxed and soiled dustjacket, with faint moisture stain to the spine, is creased to the edges, with small closed tears and moderate losses to the spine ends and adjacent panels and tips - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 60x40 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14737
- Title
- DAVID LIVINGSTONE: The Story Of His Life told by Dora C. Abdy
- Author
- Abdy, Dora C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Biography
Terms of Sale
The Old Bookshelf
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
Biblio member since 2005
Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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