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Garment Workers in Action: History of the Garment Workers of South Africa to 1952
by Sachs, E.S. (Solly)
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
£50.59£40.48
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About This Item
Johannesburg: Eagle Press Ltd., 1957. 198 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Pink stiff card covers with titling in black to cover and spine, in a pictorial dustjacket. Rubbing to panels of jacket, with nicking and a little chipping to head and tail of jacket. Uneven sunning to covers of book. Gift inscription on verso of blank page facing the half title page. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding slightly cocked and just a little bit loose, but still holding quite well. . Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 626088
- Title
- Garment Workers in Action: History of the Garment Workers of South Africa to 1952
- Author
- Sachs, E.S. (Solly)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Eagle Press Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Spine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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