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Seller's Description:
First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 236. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. This book is heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Text in English. ISBN: 090907951X About fine in very good dust jacket, with some rubbing at edges. Decent copy.
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Large 4to (32x26cms), 236 pages, coloured frontispiece, plan, 127 illustrations (many in colour & many from the Brenthurst collection), bibliography: aspects of the life & times of British Society in and around Cape Town during the British occupation; hardback, vg+ vg+ dw LIMITED EDITION (850) a heavy book that will attract extra postage, SCARCE.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 090907951X. Hardcover with dustjacket, one of 850 copies bound in cloth with two ribbon bookmarks, "The majority of the illustrations appearing in this book have been drawn from the splendid Brenthurst collection of Africana, and they record, before the days of the camera, the Cape as it appeared during the years 1806 to 1872. The text imparts a flavour of the social life of the new order which, by precedent, convention and imitation, was to change the outlook and habits of the population for ever." Book is flawless except for a name written neatly on the second front end-paper, dustjacket is scuffed on the rear panel and has a couple of short edge-tears, the jacket is clean and presentable, the front panel, spine and flaps are quite attractive, and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, 236 pages, includes a Select Bibliography.
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Very good. Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The dust jacket has been placed in protective mylar for preservation. The text block includes extensive photographs to supplement the text. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to. HEAVY. 236pp, index, bibliography, frontis, 127 plates. Or green cloth in jacket. Very light tape stains to endpapers and flaps from earlier protective cover being taped dowm. One of 850 copies bound in cloth. Extensive look at social life in British Society on the Cape of Good Hope from the time of occupation in 1806.
