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Sierra Leone After a Hundred Years.
by The Right Rev. E.G. Ingham, Bishop of Sierra Leone:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London:: Seeley & Co.,, 1894.. First edition.. xi (i), 368, [4]. With nearly 30 illustrations, either as plates or in the text, but lacking the frontis. Foxing to title page, contents otherwise clean with occasional minor marks. Upper corner of p75/76 torn off. With the original yellow endpapers, split at the gutter, the front pastedown bearing the handwritten ownership name of a Diocesan Library followed by a florid personal ownership name. None of the usual library indications. In the original binding of navy cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Fairly bright, boards well-anchored, corners blunted, spine ends frayed. Good reading copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chapel Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18944040
- Title
- Sierra Leone After a Hundred Years.
- Author
- The Right Rev. E.G. Ingham, Bishop of Sierra Leone:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Seeley & Co.,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1894.
Terms of Sale
Chapel Books
Payment can be made by card (Maestro, American Express, Visa, Mastercard, etc), or by PayPal or sterling cheque drawn on a British bank. Non-Sterling cheques and Sterling cheques drawn on non-UK banks incur a conversion charge of 10 (sorry !). REFUNDS: If you are unhappy with a book for any reason and return it within a week in the condition in which you received it I will refund the price of the book in full. If the book arrives damaged or is not as described, I will also refund the shipping cost in both directions. If you are returning it for other reasons, you will be responsible for paying the shipping cost both ways. Please email or ring me if you have any questions. 01728-648616 - try any hour !
About the Seller
Chapel Books
Biblio member since 2007
Westleton, Suffolk
About Chapel Books
I sell books from a large disused Chapel next to the village duck pond, where I have lived about 40 years: just inland from Dunwich and between Southwold and Aldeburgh. I open 7 days a week, 12-5.
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- Gutter
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- Spine
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- Reading Copy
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