David Livingstone: The Weaver Boy who Became a Missionary by H. G. Adams - 1878

Oxford University Press, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1879. Fifth Edition. . Hardcover. G-. 12mo. A good reading copy in decorative royal blue cloth cover with darkened spine which has some wear to top & tail. Binding pulling in centre. Remains of label on front pastedown. Immediate despatch from the UK.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1895. Hardcover. Good. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Contains in-text monochromatic illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning to spine.

London: Hodder And Stoughton, 1890. Original decorative, blue cloth in tidy condition, a little light rubbing, prize bookplate, some occasional spotting.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1879.. Twenty-Seventh Thousand." Fifth edition. 8vo. 18.4cm x 12cm x 3.4cm. pp.4/306/4(adverts). Engraved portrait frontis (of David Livingstone) and 3 full-page illustrations. Pages lightly toned. Dedication (dated 1907) in a contemporary hand to fep. Original green embossed cloth covers. Front board with blind-stamp decoration, a coloured rose inlay, and gilt title. Spine similarily decorated with gilt title and blind-stamp decoration. Edges lightly rubbed, the rest of the decoration still quite bright. A well preserved copy.

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. 1935 Reprint. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 336p., ill. ; 20cm. Subjects: Livingstone, David. Missionaries -- Africa.