Desert adventure. by Stuart, Brian - 1954

The Travel Book Club, 1111. Hardcover. Good. Book Club Edition. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 183 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil and pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor sunning to spine. Minor wear marks to spine and panels. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.

London: The Travel Book Club Book. Good. Cream Cloth Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Undated edition, presumed first thus. Account of the author's journey on foot across the Sahara to Timbuktu. 183pp illustrated with black and white photographs. Boards slightly bowed, some bumping to corners and marking to spine. Top edges slightly dusty. Dated April 57 to front pastedown, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ has slight creasing to edges and a few small nicks, also biro ticks to listed titles on back cover, otherwise good..

Travel Book Club, 1955. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a chipped and rubbed pictorial dust wrapper that has gummed paper repairs to verso, text unmarked and clean, b&w plates, 183pp.

Uk: Travel Book Club. Good. Hardcover. 183 pages. d/j tatty now repaired .

London: G.Bell and Sons Ltd, 1954.. 1st edition. "An account of the dangers and the humours of travel in the Sahara and in Syria...Major Stuart went to North Africa to fetch back the vicar's son from the Foreign Legion. Failing in this, he decided to walk across the Sahara. With an Arab, and three camels of decided individuality, he set out over the giant sand dunes by a route never used before by a European. Thus, mostly on foot, he crossed the desert and reached Timbuktu, where he stayed for some time." Pp.183, 16 black & white photo illustrations + a map, owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning to endpapers. Red cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge tears and small losses to top and tail of spine and corner tips. G+/Good.

London: The Travel Book Club, 1955 nd.[c.1955]. VG/VG-. 8vo. original cream boards (a little rubbed & sunned) in dustwrapper (rubbed & nicked, spine ends chipped, a little discreet staining); pp. 184 (last blank), with illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/VG-.

London: The Travel Book Club. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages .

Hardback. 1954. 183pp, 16 plates & map 1954 *Journey across the Sahara Desert. Covers slightly marked. .