The Year Book and Guide to East Africa
by A. Gordon-Brown
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Only
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Robert Hale Ltd. , 1954 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Only. 7.5" by 5". Not stated. The 1954 edition of this annual guidebook to East Africa with colour maps in the original dust wrapper. First edition of The Year Book and Guide to East Africa for the year 1954 in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Edited by A. Gordon-Brown, for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited. With atlases, folding maps, town plans and route maps. Includes many advertisements: twenty six pages to the front and eighty seven to the rear. With sixteen paginated pages of colour maps to the rear. Includes a ribbon-bound paper advertisers book mark.There is some loss to the dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. The dust wrapper is worn to the extremities with some small tears and loss to the top edge of the rear board and head of the spine. To the binding, there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities resulting in some slight wear to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some aging. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 838W25
- Title
- The Year Book and Guide to East Africa
- Author
- A. Gordon-Brown
- Illustrator
- Not stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Only
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert Hale Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- East Africa Annuals Guidebook First edition Annuals Colour maps
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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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...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- First Edition
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- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.