The Last Boer War.
by HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, London., 1899. First edition. Octavo. pp xxx, 244. Pictorial wrappers (there was no hardbound issue). The book was originally written in 1882 and the author's sympathies are not wholly with the British.Covers slightly creased. Spine rubbed and marked. Very good. Preserved in recent custom-made buckram folding box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HAGGARDH010478
- Title
- The Last Boer War.
- Author
- HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, London.
- Date Published
- 1899
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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- 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....
- Buckram
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- Wrappers
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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...
- First Edition
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