THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.

UK,thick 12mo p/back,reprint.[Originally first published Weidenfeld & Nicolson,(LONDON,1991) 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.This reprint by ABACUS (UK,LONDON),published in 1992 and reprinted in same year,again in 1993 (x 3),1994 and this reprint in 1995.] VG++.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright, with light age grubbing but glossy,colour pictorial artwork from a hand-coloured etching by Helena Zakrzewska Rucinska,illustrated front cover with brown lettering,thumbnail colour detail from front illustration to spine/backstrip with similarly coloured lettering as front and reading creases present,rear panel with white background with synopsis and critics' black+brown lettering respectively.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present,Accidental corner tip creases to upper+lower rear cover's corners,a vertical crease to same cover too,and some inevitable age-acquired,but superficial scoring/indents to both card covers.Top+fore-edges aged/toned but virtually foxing/spotting free; contents bright with minimal page-edge toning,tight,clean solid and sound - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,thick 12mo p/back,reprint,ix-xxviipp+1-738pp [paginated] includes separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables,cartoons+engravings list/table with maps list/table to its reverse,author's Introduction,a Prologue,Pts I-IV comprising 37chapters,an Epilogue,profuse contemporary b/w illustration reproductions,b/w photographs and b/w cartoon and engraving illustrations interspersed within the text and the book,a chronology,a Select bibliography,Notes and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] 1pp crtics' reviews with b/willustration reproduction to its reverse,another b/w photograph with blank verso,author potted biography,with list of his other works to its reverse,title page,and to the rear, 2pp publisher advert for author's 'The Boer War' and an order form to its reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable,and even internally, the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, I.e. an ephemeral p/back. It is only the exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them, it really is an acceptable copy. Gripping,eminently readable account of how,in thirty years,five European powers and one individual carved up 10 million square miles of territory and 110 million bewildered inhabitants in the name of Commerce, Christianity, Civilisation, and Conquest. 'The Scramble for Africa' is the first,full-scale history of that extraordinary episode in history.The term was apparently coined in 1884.Modern historians have not agreed exactly what period it should cover.But the author has used it to embrace the whole final hectic phase of the partition,beginning with a prelude in 1876 and ending in 1912. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note, stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.