Captain Speke's Welcome
by Anonymous
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Blackwood's Magazine, 1863. Ephemera. An exerpt (pages 264-266 only) from Blackwood's Magazine, October of 1863, anouncing John Hanning Speke's return from his second attempt to discover the source of the Nile River. A rather scarce bit of ephemera. Tiny bit of tan at edges, faint wrinkle; else Fine. In modern stiff paper binding; blue, with a paper label on the front cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005042
- Title
- Captain Speke's Welcome
- Author
- Anonymous
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Blackwood's Magazine
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Africa, Explorations, Burton, Nile River, John Hanning Speke
- Bookseller catalogs
- Explorations;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 12mo
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...