My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
by Henry M. Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hudson, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Sampso Low, Marston & Co., 1893. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Walter Buckley. Probably a first edition. Dark brown cloth, gold lettering; illus of lion wrestling with a snake in high grass, spine shows a primate climbing a tree, Some wear to corners, edges, and spine ends. Front flyleaf corner is clipped, cracked at hinge, some signatures just beginning to separate. 1" strip cut from top of contents page, orig owner's name lightly stamped on half title page. Many B&W illus, entertaining reading.
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- Bookseller
- Trench Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000679
- Title
- My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
- Author
- Henry M. Stanley
- Illustrator
- Walter Buckley
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampso Low, Marston & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa;
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About Trench Books
General stock, but specializing in fiction titles through 1970 and early children's series books. Large inventory, being listed as time permits. All listed titles are subject to prior sale.
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