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Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Collins, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover.

Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Houghton Mifflin 1955 Later Printing Good++/Very Good DJ Ex-library with usual markings, deckled inside page edges, light wear to gold cloth, illustrated map end papers, solid structure, bright glossy dust jacket protected in Brodart Plasti-kleer reinforced dust jacket cover. 400 pages photo illustrated. HEAVY ITEM.. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good++/Very Good DJ. No Exp.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1955. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O address label on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Fair: Price Clipped; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; missing pieces at upper tips, spine and part of the rear board; chipping at tail. Tan boards and spine with dark brown shadowbox on the spine and decorations on the front board. Maps as endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 400 pp 8vo. This is a story of South Africa. The author, a prolific writer on South Africa, writes now of a year's travel, accompanied by his wife, from the Cape to the deserts of the north. In this we face the paradoxes of the Dark Continent, hear the testimony of emirs and missionaries, of career diplomats and native doctors, and see that the overwhelming problem of education of the… Read More

COLLINS CLEAR TYPE PRESS, January 1958. Hardcover . 6.5 Bulk HB Low.

Boston, 1955. hardcover. very good. Illus. & Maps. 400pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. (chipped). Boston, (1955). Very good. Record of a year's travel from the Cape to the deserts of the North.<br/><br/>

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1955. cloth hard cover is in very good plus condition with slight wear with no dust jacket. has mapped illustrated endpapers. has a name on inside front cover otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. 400 pages includes index. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Rehna Cloete. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Collins. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. Slight shelf wear on the cover. Inscription to previous owner on inside cover

London: Collins, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Very clean red cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on spine. No fraying, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (illustrated with maps); no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black & white photographs & maps. 448 pgs. with index. Dustjacket has small corner price clip at lower front inside flap edge, a few tiny edge chips and very short closed edge tears, clean except for faint shallow water mark to upper spine corner of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa..

London, Collins, 1956, First British edition. . original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, light wear on rear panel, very good, interior is quite clean. . 8vo [21.5 x 15 cm]; 448 pp, frontis from drwg, numerous photo plates, maps, map endpapers showing author's route, index. . Based on the author's extensive travels with his wife including west, central, east and southern Africa. The appendix gives the tribal oaths of the Mau Mau. Conover 29: 'Report on a year of travel covering all Africa south of the Sahara, by a well-known South African novelist'. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Collins, London, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Illustrator: Rehne Cloete Photographer, and Maps. Maps, black and white photographs by Rehna Cloete, appendix, index. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white, black and purple coloured titles to the front panel and white and purple coloured titles to the back strip. Chronicles a journey across Africa, undertaken, in Cloete's words, with "the desire to clarify our minds about the racial ferment of Africa". The journey is taken through South Africa, Rhodesia, Nigeria, Liberia, the Congo, Uganda and Kenya. Time Magazine's comment on the dust jacket notes: "There has been nothing quite so blunt said about Africa in years by a man who knows more about Black Africa than any other white man alive.". Softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Tanning and foxing of the text block edges… Read More

Collins, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. foxing, old tape residue and marks. ownership inscription and sticker. sound binding. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Houghton Mifflin. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front pastedown. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (travel, memoir)

London: Collins. 448pp hardback, red boards gilt in price-clipped wrapper, bw plates including frontispiece, maps, map end-papers, fore-edges lightly spotted . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1955. Inscribed and signed by Cloete on front endpaper. Tan cover with black lettering & decorations. Illustrated with photos by Rehna Cloete and mapped innerboards. Cover woodcut by Lynd Ward. Some soil to top edge, general wear and soil. Jacket shows some wear and chipping. 400 pgs 5.5'x8'. Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Good/Collectible-Fair.

Collins. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Writing inside. (Africa, ethnology)

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in G condition - price clipped, rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends, light creasing to edges, faint damp stain along bottom edge/rear cover does not bleed through to boards or text block else still bright & intact. BIL 6/21

Collins Distribution. Very Good. . with dustjacket, 1956, clean tight copy . 1956. Hardcover.

Collins, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloete, Rehna. 1957 Collins 2nd impression hardback; Very Good, lightly shelf-aged but clean condition; with Good unclipped dj which has some edge wear and an edge tear; UK dealer, immediate dispatch