Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five
by Chase, Ilka
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1963. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, Later Printing.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1963. First Edition, later printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Later printing of the first edition, SIGNED by Ilka Chase, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Very slight surface wear to corners at base of spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No previous owner markings. Signed on half-title page by author: "Ilka Chase". Illustrated with black and white photographs. 269 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, no chips, hint of very slight edge wear. Nice photo of author astride a camel on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Ilka Chase and her husband, Dr. Norton Brown, take the reader on a photo-safari through East Africa..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026332
- Title
- Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five
- Author
- Chase, Ilka
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, Later Printing.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, AFRICA, AFRICAN SAFARI, ILKA CHASE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; SIGNED Editions; Africa;
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