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New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. 8vo, pp. 251. Original grey boards, lettered in red and silver to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Browning to cheap paper stock, but a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little light edgewear. First edition. A Johnny Liddell title -- one of twenty-nine in the series. A near fine copy. HUBIN, p. 230

London: Cape, 1952. 8vo. pp. 254. Index and foldout map. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dustwrapper, slight dulling to spine and with just the lightest edgewear to head of spine. Photographic frontispiece and illustrations by the author. First edition. As well as a mastery of his subject, Francis Kingdon-Ward [1885-1958] had a deep curiosity about the terrain and people he encountered during his botanical expeditions. The result was a series of absorbing travel-cum-textbooks, engagingly written, attractive to the general reader as well as the specialist, whose author was one of the forefathers of popular science. An unusually well-preserved copy in the dustwrapper.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1948. 8vo, pp. 249. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Short closed tear to lower edge of front free endpaper, browning to cheap paper stock, a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little edgewear. First edition. The second and last of the author's novels, and scarce in the first edition. HUBIN, p. 243