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Paperback collection of cartoons by South African, David Marais.
Paperback collection of cartoons by South African, David Marais.
Struik 1987. No dust jacket. Cover slightly worn. Text pages in good condition.
DW has two small closed tears at top and bottom edges; slight marking.
Text clean and binding tight. Some scuff marks on covers. Spine faded and with sharp crease.
A contemporary account of the Jacobite rebellion and probably the first book ever written on the subject. With a 6 page dedication to the Duke of Argyle and 173 pp text.Pages 161 - 166 omitted in the pagination but text and register are continuous. Armorial bookplate of the noted British politician and ex- Governor of New South Wales, Sir Robert William Duff on the paste down fep.
Green cloth boards with guilt to the spine and front board. Presentation plate of Henry Vignaud tipped into fep. Dec. 8 1903 Jas. Filzmausier-Kelly with the compliments of . JFK’s bookplate on paste down fep.. Newspaper article fron 1955 about Columbus tipped in. Previous owner’s ex-libris stamp on the half title and the last pg. Pages have been unevenly cut. Contact bookseller for photographs.
A near fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket.
Previous owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper. Bookseller’s stamp on front pastedown. Text clean, binding tight; minor shelfwear to edges of boards and corners, spine slightly faded.
Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. Will incur extra postage. Text in French and English.
Fishmothing to cover. Sunned spine. Some foxing.
Past owner’s name in ink on front endpapers. Slight marking on boards, corners frayed and bumped.
Clean copy; a little edge wear to boards and binding mildly skewed. Slight foxing to endpapers and top fore edges of pages. DW chipped at top, spine browned with shelf number in black ink on white paint at lower edge.
Spine missing, covers are unattached.
Recased. Faded cover. Plenty of beautiful illustrations throughout. Large water (?) stain at tail of half-title page through to frontispiece