The Mission: or, Scenes In Africa. Written for Young People
by Marryat, Captain, R.N
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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(London: Henry G. Bohn: 1856) A New Edition, in One Volume, with Illustrations by John Gilbert. Gilt pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 446. Map of the Mission. All edges gilt. Head and foot of spine rubbed and somewhat worn; rear external hinge split and front internal hinge splitting; lacks all before the frontispiece (that is, the front free endpaper and the half-title leaf if there was one); a dampstain to the lower corner affecting the frontispiece and early leaves; stitching loosened; a good copy.
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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