THE DARK TIDE
de Croudace, Glynn
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+/Good
- Librería
-
Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Robert Hale, 1967. 189pp. Book clean, mildly cocked. Spine firm. Slight colour loss on dark charcoal boards. Light foxing flecks on text-block edges, and slightly tanned leaves, else good. Art-illustrated [Barbara Walton] dustjacket edgeworn, small corner nips, fingermarked on rear [text] panel, otherwise lightly flecked. A powerful story, set in the early 19th century in Cape Town, South Africa, where the white settlers, both British and Dutch, are engaged in a bitter struggle against the Kaffir race. Hugh Wentworth, a British Cavalry officer, weary of European wars, arrives hoping to farm in peace. He becomes embroiled in the war, his life exacerbated by Rose, his childhood sweetheart, now living in Cape Town and married to a British officer . . . Factual background for this narrative is based on the journals of Andries Stockenstrom, controversially appointed Lieutenat-Governor of Eastern Province in 1835. Book weight approx. 340g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002794
- Título
- THE DARK TIDE
- Autor
- Croudace, Glynn
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Robert Hale
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1967
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Palabras clave
- FICTION, GENERAL FIRST EDITIONS, SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction-First Editions;
Términos de venta
Diversity Books, IOBA
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Sobre el vendedor
Diversity Books, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Korumburra, Victoria
Sobre Diversity Books, IOBA
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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...
