Adventurer's Paradise by Alastair Scobie - 1955

London: Travel Book Club, 1955. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 249 pages. Contains some black & white photographs. Bottom corners bumped. Soiling, chipping, creasing to dust jacket. Record # 503693

Great Britain: The Travel Book Club, 1955. Book. Good. Hardcover. Book Is In Good Condition. Boards Have A Bit Of Shelf Wear. Lightly Corner Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Modest Amount Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Poor Condition. Wear And Chip Along The Edges. Almost Completely Seperated At The Front Fly Leaf. Some Scuffing To The Front. Old Tape. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy..

(London, Cassell, 1955). 8vo; green boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 249 including index; black-and-white plates; name of previous owner on front free endpaper; scattered foxing. Good condition. "Alastair Scobie spends his time in the wilder parts of East Africa looking for trouble - principally wild-animal trouble. With a film camera and a gun he wanders over the long plains and steep passes of Northern Kenya, ankle deep in volcanic dust, or through gorilla and rhino tunnels, forced passages in the massed bamboo forests of the 'Mountains of the Moon' on the edge of the Congo. Wherever he goes he seeks sensation for entertainment of the millions who take their thrills vicariously through the medium of cinema or television." .

The Travel Book Club, 1955. Hardback. The Travel Book Club, 1955. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Endpapers lightly browned. A hardback volume in Good condition, in a similar dustjacket, some water staining to rear.

UK: The Travel Book Club. Good. Hardcover. 1975. 1st Edition. tidy copy .

Cassell And Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. the jacket is a little worn and shelf rubbed. the fep has been removed. no inscriptions. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.M.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: The Travel Book Club, (1955)., (1955).. Good. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in black on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are bumped and the head & tail of the book's spine are faded. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with small pieces out from the head & tail of the jacket's spine. 249 & [1] pages, illustrated with a map and 8 pages of photographs. There is offsetting to the endpapers with some slight creasing from humidity to the rear pastedown. Good.
Travel Book Club Edition.
Inscribed on a tipped in piece of paper by John Corcoran to "Bimbetta", the widow of Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, Virginia and the 14 year partner of professional hunter Bill Ryan.
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London: Cassell, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hsrdcover, with photographs, VG in VG dustjacket with creasing along top edge, and a small tear at lower corner of spine.

Cassell, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. One inscription.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: The Travel Book Club, 1955. Book Club edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 249pp. 12 plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Light tanning of the contents, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (tape repair to the lower edge). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.