The Tree Where Man Was Born/The African Experience
by Matthiessen, Peter and Porter, Eliot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- N-Fine/N-Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525222650
- ISBN 13
- 9780525222651
- Seller
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1972. Book. Illus. by Eliot Porter. N-Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A square solid tight over-all clean copy. This copy has some light pagedge soil.foxing. The PC jacket has some light rubbing wear, minor edgewear, browning at extremities. This copy has a bookplate from a previous owner tipped in and the name of the previous owner written neatly to the back side of the front board. This copy has several 8x10 color photos that seem to have been taken in Africa by someone and then laid in. Still and all a very nice copy for your Mathiessen collection especially with the added photos..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020686
- Title
- The Tree Where Man Was Born/The African Experience
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter and Porter, Eliot
- Illustrator
- Eliot Porter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - N-Fine
- Jacket Condition
- N-Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0525222650
- ISBN 13
- 9780525222651
- Publisher
- E P Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AFRICA SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I accept cash, checks, money orders and bank cards. International orders paid by check must be made out to a United States bank branch. International orders paid by money order must be a postal money order made out in United States dollars. You can return any book that you purchase from me if you are not satisfied with it.
About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.