Hausaland. Or Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan.
by ROBINSON, Charles Henry
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896 . Octavo. Original vertical-ribbed green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt vignette to front board. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase. Entirely unopened.
First edition, the Brooke-Hitching copy, with his pencilled initials to the half-title.
First edition, the Brooke-Hitching copy, with his pencilled initials to the half-title.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96047
- Title
- Hausaland. Or Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan.
- Author
- ROBINSON, Charles Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896
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About Shapero Rare Books
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...