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The Ebony Ark: Black Africa's Battle to Save Its Wild Life
by Robins, Eric
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: The Quality Book Club, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xx, 186pp, 12pp black and white photographic plates. Cyan cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on black spine label. Bumped spine ends and top and bottom edges of front cover. Text block edges starting to fox. Free endpapers foxing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Shows how African conservationists are teaching traditional pastoralists, like the colourful Masai, how to settle down in villages and stop destroying the game habitats with their vast herds of cattle, and showing how the gamekeepers are nurturing rare species.
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- Seller
- BookAddiction
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 012234
- Title
- The Ebony Ark: Black Africa's Battle to Save Its Wild Life
- Author
- Robins, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Quality Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wildlife, Conservation, Africa,
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nr Canterbury, Kent
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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