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THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND WAR
by HARTLEY Aidan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Sunned page edges, else a very good+ copy in near fine boards. A very good dust jacket with rubbing to corners and price clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0002570599
- ISBN 13
- 9780002570596
- Seller
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About This Item
London,, 2003. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Sunned page edges, else a very good+ copy in near fine boards. A very good dust jacket with rubbing to corners and price clipped at front flap.. 8vo. Pp: 448. First edition. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.ISBN: 0002570599
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- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C68982
- Title
- THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND WAR
- Author
- HARTLEY Aidan
- Book Condition
- Used - Sunned page edges, else a very good+ copy in near fine boards. A very good dust jacket with rubbing to corners and price clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002570599
- ISBN 13
- 9780002570596
- Publisher
- HaperCollins,
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 448
- Keywords
- SignedBiographyAfrica
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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