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Smith, Elder & Co., 1910. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Hinges are cracked and binding is loose. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Smith, Elder & Co., 1910. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. Second Impression. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with marbled paper to centre of boards. Book has been rebound. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Light brown staining to pages throughout. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

John Murray, 1913. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are worn, rubbed and marked. Internally clean with minor marks and previous owners inscription. Well bound. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Smith, Elder & Co 1913. Super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

(London: Smith, Elder: 1910) Second Impression. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 233 and 2 publisher's advertisements. With Seventy-two illustrations from Photographs by the Author and a Map. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; a few flecks and dampstains to cloth; edges foxed and scattered foxing internally; a very good copy.

London: John Murray, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. First of the Popular Edition; first published in 1910. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. book very good with some fading and light abrasions to spine, bookplate, owner's inscription, text very good and clean; jacket fair to good with some chips, edgewear and loss but mainly complete and a rare survivor; few if any of the other copies currently for sale online have a jacket. 233 pp, illustrated, folding map. Treves, of course, is famous these days for have treated and written about "The Elephant Man." Chapters on Mombasa, the Uganda Railway, the Masai, Nairobi in the early 1900's, the Rift Valley, Safaris, Nakuru, Port Florence (Kisumu), Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria-Nyanza, Kampala, the Nile, etc.

, 233 pages, black and white illustrations and photographs throughout, black and white frontispiece, fold-out map and index at rear

London : Smith Elder, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. large Octavo. Phtography: The Author. Type: Book pp XI, 233 + 2. 1st printing. TEG. 2 edges untrimmed.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1910. xi, [i], 230pp. Folding colour map at the rear. A nice copy. Tiny split to the head of the spine otherwise sound and clean. Spine backstrip a trifle toned. Many photographs throughout and a folding colour map before the index.. 1st edition, 2nd impression. Hardback. Fine/No d.j.. large 8vo.

Smith, Elder & Co.; London., 1910. First printing. ASSOCIATION COPY. . Soft. Good. 8vo. 9 1/2".. With 72 illustrations from potographs by the author, plus large fold-out map to rear.. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Publisher`s worn tan cloth with gilt lettering worn to front and spine and painted embossed illustration to front. A little edge-worn. Bookplate to front pastedown of hunter, naturalist, author and illustrator `Abel Chapman`. Chapmans` monogrammed penciled notes to front free endpaper and annotations to margins sporadically throughout. A clean, sound copy. Top edge gilt. 1st ed`, 1st` imp`. Association copy of Abel Chapman, as detailed in description. xi prelims & 230pp.

With seventy-two illustrations from photographs by the author and a map. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1910 Med.8vo. xi,233pp. 72 illustrations on plates, coloured folding map, index. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, spine a little marked, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's light brown cloth. 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 courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]

With seventy-two illustrations from photographs by the author and a map. London: Smith, Elder & Co., Second Impression, 1910 Med.8vo. xi,233pp. 72 illustrations on plates, coloured folding map, index. A very nice copy in the publisher's light brown cloth. 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 courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ]

1910. First edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1910. 16 x 24cm. (11), 233 pages, with photographic plates throughout and a fold-out map at rear. Hardcover / Original, illustrated cloth with gilt lettering and gilded top edge. Some signs of external wear, including staining and minor tear to boards and slight shakiness to binding. Internally in excellent condition, with text, photographs and map clean and bright. According to the Preface, Treves approached the writing of this travel guide "from the outlook of the unspecialised traveller", as opposed to the types of travel books about Africa that were commonly available at the time, focused on "the point of view of the naturalist, the big-game hunter, the colonist and the missionary". Contents include: The Lyons Mail / The Cape / Mombasa / The Arab Town and the Old Fort / The Uganda Railway / The Red Desert / Masai and Manners / Nairobi / The Great Rift Valley / Nakuru and the Road Westward / Port Florence / Lake Victoria / Rusinga Island / Muanza… Read More