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The Tree Where Man Was Born / The African Experience
by Peter Matthiessen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0525222650
- ISBN 13
- 9780525222651
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Dutton, 1972. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Original price of $17.50 appears on the lower corner of the front flap. The jacket had been protected by a clear, removable, library quality cover, so there is no wear to the jacket. However, it had been taped to the boards with transparent tape, so there are residue marks from the adhesive on the boards, both front and back, each one is about 1/2 inch wide and 1/2 inch tall. 247 pages, with Glossary, Bibliography, and Index. The former owner's bookplate is pasted to the inside of the front board. Bookplate measures 3" X 4". Wheat colored cloth covered boards with sewn binding. The text is clean, the binding is tight and square. No writing on the text, this is not a remainder, not a library copy. Some age tanning dots to the edge of the text block primarily to the top edge, and some dots to the inside of the cover boards on the paste down pages. A classic of natural history and travel writing, with superb photographs by Eliot Porter. We follow their journey from the Nile through Sudan and Tanzania, onward to Lake Rudolf on the border of Kenya. 10" X 11-1/4, a very large book, this will be mailed out in a sturdy box!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-171
- Title
- The Tree Where Man Was Born / The African Experience
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525222650
- ISBN 13
- 9780525222651
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Africa, Photography, Natural History, Safari
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; 20Q2;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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