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Trading Life In Western And Central Africa
by John Whitford
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1967. Hardback. Good/Good. Second edition hardback in the Cass Library Of African Studies series (no. 40) with an new introduction by A. G. Hopkins, 1967, in a price-clipped jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj chipped to corners and spine lightly tanned (now protected); blue cloth boards slightly rubbed and faded to edges with a little wear to cloth at spine head. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no inscriptions - three neat notes in the margins in pencil of pp.309/310, owner’s bookplate to front pastedown; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Includes a photocopied excerpt on John Beecroft, Her Brittanic Majesty’s Consul to the Bight of Benin and Biafra. Not an old library book.
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- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180375
- Title
- Trading Life In Western And Central Africa
- Author
- John Whitford
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frank Cass & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1967
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Africa;
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Oswestry, Shropshire
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- Cloth
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