Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller. 301 pages, b/w photographic illustrations. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration foil-stamped to front board. Condition: Cover a little grubby, rubbed and edge-worn, head and tail of spine scuffed. Spine cracked with text block becoming detached; binding has remained intact but is fragile. Endpapers browned and with marks of tape residue. Foxing to prelims, index pages and outer page edges, occasionally along binding edge. Previous owner's stamp and inscription to ffep and title page o/w contents clean and unmarked. Heavy book (1kg) - Overseas orders may require additional postage. . Fair. Hardcover. 1914.

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Bookseller: Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 113021
Title: South African Bird-Life
Author: Haagner, Alwin; Ivy, Robert H
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: T. Maskew Miller
Place of Publication: Cape Town
Date Published: 1914
Pages: 301
Size: 225mm x 150mm.
Keywords: natural history South Africa birds ornithology unit fifteen

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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,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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...
O/W: An abbreviation for otherwise
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....