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Black and white illustrations, Original cloth (Hardback) in dust jacket, #869/1295, Very Good/Good, signed by author, jacket complete, but rubbed and worn. ISBN: 0 909 75900 6 Weight: 630g.Ex library with number on front and stamp on back end pages

Orig. cloth. Portrait frontisp. numerous b/w plates and a map. Boards are clean with Dust jacket in protective mylar. Pages clean and age-toned,.Author's signed to previous owners. " To Teddy and Eileen with old-time memories and every good wish, from Ethel Jarman."

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

First editions. Publisher's cloth backed boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Inscribed AG Smith March 1946. Tight clean binding with slight colouring of pages.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

As New Hardback in unclipped As New Dust jacket, 631 pages 32 Photographs 23.5cm x 15.5cmEquator Crossings: Travelogue Extraordinary is set against a backdrop of nineteenth-century Africa, Zanzibar, Europe and Oman. An upstage American press magnate's single three-letter-word telegram to his British competitor leads Henry Morton Stanley to 999 gruelling days of exploration in a quest to discover and define the watersheds of Africa's two gigantic rivers, the Nile and the Congo. This geographical and scientific feat, that drastically changed the economic and political history of the world, now provides an epic narrative of adventure, travel and romance.Paul Huygelen's professional career has been mostly involved in international affairs, be it with the United Nations, a multinational corporation or a major Middle East financial institution. His thorough knowledge of East and Central Africa, through his extensive business trips in the region, helped him with the research fo rhis book. In the framework of… Read More

Blue boards in protective mylar. Maps and photographs. Pages in good conditions with some yellowing due to age.

Blue Boards in protective mylar. Delightful full page drawings. Clean pages with uncut edges and blue to top slightly yellowed with age. In very good condition for the age. Early observations on Chancellor Hitler who came to power in 1933.

Original publisher's cream cloth hardback, dark-blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering spine and front cover, coat of arms in gilt to front cover. Top edge of pages gilt, others uncut, pages clean and tight, some wear to bottom spine, frontispiece portrait William Dampier, 16 black and white plate illustrations, table of contents, appendix, lacks the folding map. Text complete. Decorated end papers. Overall a very nice copy.