CAMPAIGNING ON THE UPPER NILE AND NIGER
by Vandeleur, Seymour
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
-
Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen. Bound in green cloth with clear title to spine and gold blocked image of three native soldiers to front board, this dated 1898 hardcover First Edition is VG. XXV11/320pp+40pp Methuen's List for November 1897. With B/W photo of Author as frontis protected by Tissue Guard, Introduction by Sir George Goldie, 22 Chapters and Three Appendices. Maps as follows: The Nile Valley, Uganda, Unyoro and the Upper Nile (Large coloured folding map with two inch closed tear to blank margin only), Territories of Royal Niger Company (B/W folding Map), and The Nupe Country (Large coloured folding map with 3 inch closed tear in blank margin only. (Slight creasing at edge through misfolding, and minor discolouration to verso of map at two folds which has leaked through to surface of map. Four inch closed split at one fold). 15 illustrations,in total, as well as the maps, as called for. Minimal rubbing at top/tail of spine, clean endpapers, one or two really indistinct maks to front board and one larger mark to rear board. Suspicion of damp to top 2cm of back board. Otherwise a VG copy . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1898.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0018586
- Title
- CAMPAIGNING ON THE UPPER NILE AND NIGER
- Author
- Vandeleur, Seymour
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Campaigning on the Nile and Niger(1898): S. Vandeleur
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.