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How We Kept The Flag Flying : The Siege of Ladysmith through Australian Eyes
by MacDonald, Donald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges broken with spine mull visible at gutters. Moderate foxing. Previous owner's name on title page. ; 303, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + plates + [16] pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and colour flag illustrations on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 193 x 123mm. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24677
- Title
- How We Kept The Flag Flying : The Siege of Ladysmith through Australian Eyes
- Author
- MacDonald, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Military
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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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....
- Jacket
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