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Safari Encore
by Wardenburg, Fred A
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Green cloth, map endpapers. Wear at head of spine, else very good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
N.p. [Philadelphia?]: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, one of 400 copies. Frontispiece portrait tipped in and numerous photographic plates. xvi, 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth, map endpapers. Wear at head of spine, else very good. First edition, one of 400 copies. Frontispiece portrait tipped in and numerous photographic plates. xvi, 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on first blank, "To Elton and Midge Clark/with best wishes/ Fred Wardenburg." The author's second safari in Africa after a 1948 initial sojourn.
Uncommon. Not in Czech. OCLC: 4427797
Uncommon. Not in Czech. OCLC: 4427797
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- Seller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 306169
- Title
- Safari Encore
- Author
- Wardenburg, Fred A
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece portrait tipped in and numerous photographic plates. xvi, 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Green cloth, map endpapers. Wear at head of spine, else very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, one of 400 copies
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- N.p. [Philadelphia?]
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- History, Travel & Geography;
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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New York, New York
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