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Native Races and Their Rulers: Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria
by Temple, C L
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- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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About This Item
Argus Printing & Publishing Company, Ltd., Cape Town, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Signed. 252 pages (complete). Inscribed and signed by Temple on the frontispage. A genial, benign copy. Stiff illustrated board covers. The cheerful covers have wear, creases, marks, rubbing all about. The spine is also much worn, cracked. The spine and boards are still fit and sure. The contents have some evidence of age, use. The early and later pages have tanning and foxing. Pp 55/56 has a small closed storage tear. Otherwise, the contents are amiable, clear and clean, only very occasionally smudged with foxing, only slightly worn at the corners and edges from use, conscientious, companionable, certain, benevolent. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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- Chapter 1 Books
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- Title
- Native Races and Their Rulers: Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria
- Author
- Temple, C L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Argus Printing & Publishing Company, Ltd., Cape Town
- Date Published
- 1918
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africana - Social Studies;
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
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