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The Iron Snake: The Story of the Uganda Railway by Hardy, Ronald - 1965

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The Iron Snake: The Story of the Uganda Railway

by Hardy, Ronald

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New York: G. B. Putnam's Sons, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo. Gray cloth, silver stamped spine. 318 pp. B/w photographs. Pictorial dust jacket.

Light wear to head and tail of spine, abrasions to boards. Soiling to top edge of boards and text block. Previous owner's stamp to ffep, title page, rear pastedown. DJ: front panel damaged by removal of price sticker. DJ enclosed in mylar; flaps taped down with cellophane tape which has left residue on the endpapers. Aside from this unfortunate treatment, the book is solid and tight
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  • Edition First American edition
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  • Publisher G. B. Putnam's Sons
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1965

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The Iron Snake

The Iron Snake

by Ronald Hardy

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Collins, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. 318 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Dust jacket taped to boards.
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The Iron Snake

The Iron Snake

by Ronald Hardy

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Collins, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1965. No edition remarks. 318 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with large tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.
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Iron Snake, The: The Story of the Uganda Railway

Iron Snake, The: The Story of the Uganda Railway

by Hardy, Ronald

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear on edges. Chipping and fraying to dust jacket. Covered in plastic sleeve. Light soil. Record # 2233333
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IRON SNAKE: The Story of the Uganda Railway

by Hardy, Ronald

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New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. 318 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ light bumping to corners. DJ has mild chipping to corners and spine ends w/ tape repair along all edges. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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THE IRON SNAKE - " The two iron streaks of rail that wind away among the hills and foliage of Mombasa Island do not break their smooth monotony until, after piercing Equatorial forests, stretching across immense prairies, and climbing almost to the level of the European snow-line, they pause upon the edge of the Great Lake." Winston Churchill. My African Journey

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COLLINS, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Signed by previous owner. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, torn, chipped, small creases and edge worn. Now protected in cellophane. There are minor annotations within the book. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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THE IRON SNAKE - 'The two iron streaks of rail that wind away among the hills and foliage of Mombasa Island do not break their smooth monotony until, after piercing Equatorial forests, stretching across immense prairies, and climbing almost to the level of the Europe snow-line, they pause upon the edges of the Great Lake.' Winston Churchill. My African Journey

by Hardy, Ronald

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COLLINS , 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed,minor marks, small tears, creases and uncut edges. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. There are marks around the block of the book. The text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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THE IRON SNAKE

by RONALD HARDY

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G.P. PUTNAM, 1965. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Used; Good/CHIPS TOP & BOTTOM OF JACKET. UGANDA RAILWAY CHANGED THE FACE AND DESTINY OF A CONTINENT. 582 MILES IN LENGTH STRETCHING FROM MOMBASA ON THE INDIAN OCEAN TO LAKE VICTORIA NYANZA IN THE HEART OF AFRICA IT BROUGHT CIVILIZATION TO A SAVAGE AND PRIMEVAL LAND. BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS.BINDING ITSELF IN GOOD CONDITION ALTHOUGH SOME WHAT FADED, DUST JACKET IS ALL THERE EXCEPT FOR ABOUT A ONE INCH STRIP MISSING IN CENTER OF THE FRONT, GOING ABOUT A THIRD DOWN FROM TOP.
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THE IRON SNAKE

by HARDY,RONALD

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collins, 1965 HARDBACK BOOK IN VERY GOOD-PLUS CONDITION,DUST JACKET IS VERY GOOD,NAME BLACKED OUT ON FIRST BLANK PAGE. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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The Iron Snake

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Collins, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is chipped and rubbed.Some tanning and foxing.Previous owners inscriptions.Well bound.EK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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1965. London, Collins, 1965. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 318 pages. 11 illustrations on 8 plates. Hardcover [publisher's original dark green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Mapped endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight and square. Preowner's name on title-page. Includes, for example, the following: Guns and Axle-Grease / No Epitaph for Coolies / Headmen and Colonels / The Dogs of Kali / Into the Rift and Over the Mau / The Three Hills of Nandi / Nyanza etc. Ronald Harold Hardy (16 November 1919 – October 1991) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel The Place of Jackals was published in 1954 to acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during World War II in the writing of this novel. A review in Time magazine claimed that the novel "establishes him as Graham Greene's No. 1 disciple." Hardy won the 1962 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his fifth novel Act of Destruction.… Read More
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