My winter on the Nile
by WARNER, Charles Dudley
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Frontispiece wood engraving ("The wooden man 6,000 years old), title vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Red pictorial cloth in black and gold, rebacked with the original spine laid down; text is toned but clean. Bookplate of the Ladies' Christian Union. First edition, published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company, of Warner's account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques, visits to the Pharaoh tombs, and interactions with local Egyptians and their culture. Through interpreters, Warner spoke with everyone he could to soak up as much of the Egyptian life as possible while he traveled around what was, at the time, considered an unknown part of the world to many Americans. Warner (1829-1900) was an American novelist, a friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored The gilded age.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15300
- Title
- My winter on the Nile
- Author
- WARNER, Charles Dudley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- travel & exploration, egypt, nile, tombs, american imprints, 19th century
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About the Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
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Sherman Oaks, California
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...