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To the Elephant Graveyard
de Hall, Tarquin
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- F/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0719561469
- ISBN 13
- 9780719561467
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: John Murray.* Binding and cover condition: Turquoise cloth, gilt title to spine. Minor bumps to head and tail of spine strip, no other visible faults. VGT++* Jacket condition: Mono photo-illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped and with slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: Two page b/w line drawn map to frontis & one 8 pp. block of b/w photos.* Pages: 255 pp. text. v pp. notes & bibliography at rear.* Description: On India's North-East Frontier a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam's paddy-fields, murdering dozens of farmers and leaving behind their mutilated and crushed bodies. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop him, call in Denish Choudhury, one of India's last licensed elephant hunters, and issue a warrant for the rogue's destruction. Tarquin Hall hears of the hunt and flies to Assam to follow the story. He learns of the forces which have driven the animal to kill and writes a fascinating account of the experience and the modification of his own preconceptions.* A FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with some faults to dust jacket reducing it to VG.*
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- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3363
- Título
- To the Elephant Graveyard
- Autor
- Hall, Tarquin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - F/VG++/VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0719561469
- ISBN 13
- 9780719561467
- Editorial
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK. 266
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2000
- Size
- 21.6 x 14.4 x 3.2 cm
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
