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London: Penguin, 1939. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first thus, paperback, 278 pages, pages tanned otherwise, inner hinge weak, covers browned, good onlyr. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B88.

United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 1939. Pocketbook. Pocketbook. Good. wraps with flaps, 280 pp dj worn and torn on the spine Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London : Penguin, 1939. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ex school library with the usual marks, first thus, paperback, 280 pages, covers spotted and marked, a good only reading copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 330.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Limited, 1939. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original Penguin vintage softcover in original dust jacket. The "Travel and Adventure" pink & white cover scheme. Some toning/staining to spine area of jacket and book. Page edges also toned, the upper edge also shows a mild small stain. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book and jacket. Very neat, and scarce, especially in this condition. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Penguin Books Limited, 1939., 1939. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST PENGUIN. Softcover, pp. 280, [8] catalogue and advertisements. Publishers' cerise and white striped card wraps with black titles in matching dust-jacket. Minor creasing to corners and 1-inch split at lower front joint but covers clean and bright. Tidy ownership inscription to half-title. Jacket lightly soiled to white panel, with 1-inch closed tear at lower front joint and splits to front fold (approx 3 inches at centre and 2 small at each end). A Very Good copy in Good jacket. Travel and Adventure series 205, an account of her 1000 mile journey into the heart of Ethiopia.

New York:Lee Furman, Inc., 1935. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. With a foreword by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby. New York:Lee Furman, Inc. (1935). 386pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Binding is lightly shelf-worn with some minor soiling to the boards. Spine is lightly faded. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though there is a touch of age-toning to the pages throughout. Overall, this is a very good copy.  S065

New York:: Macaulay Company,, [1925].. publisher's decorated blue cloth.. Large old ink ownership signature; otherwise a bright, near fine copy, with traces of light rubbing at the extremities of the spine.. 8vo,. With fifty-nine illustrations from photographs by the author; folding map..

Lee Furman. Hardcover. Good - Cash/No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear and some soiling on edges. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

New York 1925 first edition. Leo Furman Macaulay. Hardcover. Large Octavo, blue cloth with gilt lettering. 386p., 59 photo illustrations, foldout map. No owner marks. VG just light wear; hinges not cracked; binding secure; text clean. no dj. .

New York: Lee Furman, Incorporated, 1935. Second edition. Boards. Very Good, mild ex-library. Octavo, pp. 386..

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939. First edition. This early Penguin travel and adventure paperback = number 205. Some wear at top and bottom of spine, but the book has been well protected by the dust wrapper so it's a bright tight copy. The dustwrapper itself is still all there but the inside front flap has become removed from the rest and there is damage at the top and bottom of the spine. So a Good copy in a somewhat tatty dustwrapper. 280 pages including glossary but excluding adverts. Allenby states: "Rosita Forbes has penetrated where, hitherto, no English man or woman has set foot." .

Middlesex, UK.: Penguin Books Limited., 1939. In a good Dust Wrapper. Some Browning to the Pages. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE!. Not Signed or Inscribed.. This is the FIRST EDITION. Card Cover.. Very Good (AVERAGE)/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Card Covered Paperback.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1925. First US edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), 386pp. 59 b&w plates from photographs by the author. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is some light staining of the boards, some light bumping of the binding, light foxing of the preliminary pages and a gift inscription; overall, this book is in good condition.

Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Penguin Books ; 205. Physical description: 280p. : ill., map. ; 19cm. Subjects: Ethiopia -- Description and travel.

Cassell and Company Limited, 1925. 1st. Hardback. Very Good. First edition hardback, 1925, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards a touch tanned to spine and rubbed to edges. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature to front endpaper; toning and the odd spot to page-ends but text, large folding map to rear and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

New York: Macaulay Company, 1925. Illustrated from photographs by the author. Pp. 386, folding map towards back. 1 vols. 8vo. Original bright blue cloth decorated in light blue and lettered in gilt, original printed dust jackiet. Some light soiling and short tears in jacket, else an excellent copy. Illustrated from photographs by the author. Pp. 386, folding map towards back. 1 vols. 8vo. Abyssinia by mule. The author and Mr. Harold Jones, a cinematographer, journeyed the 1100 mile trip in search of photographic materials. The author has also written "The Secret of the Sahara" and "Raisuli, the Sultan of the Mountains".

By Rosita Forbes. With a map and sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author. London: Cassell, 1925 Med.8vo. xii,368p. numerous illustrations on plates, folding map, index. From the library of Dr Juel-Jensen with his original invoice inserted, school library stamps to endpapers, faint number to spine, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's grey cloth. [Pankhurst: 147] - "...made one of the first films on Ethiopia, journeys in 1920 from Jibuti to Dire Dawa by rail and then to Harar by muleback, across the Hawash river to Ankobar and Addis Ababa..." We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a… Read More

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Includes rare original dust jacket. The book measures 227mm tall x 151mm, and has 386 pages, 49 b/w photos, folding map. CONDITION: The book is in nice condition with clean covers, bright gilt, very minor rubbing extreme tips corners (not through cloth, just loss of some color), tight binding, NOT ex-library, previous owner bookplate on blank FFEP otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding, clean pages. The original dust jacket has a 2cm tear upper rear, two tiny 5mm tears lower front, loss at spine ends up to 6mm deep (but no loss of text or images), price-clipped upper flap corner. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.