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African Camp Fires (with dust wrapper)
White (Stewart Edward)
Description:
White(S.E.). African Camp Fires. Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, etc. 1914.
8vo.,First Edition,(vi)415pp., with frontispiece and 29 other full page illustrations plus maps on end papers; green cloth gilt with original printed dust wrapper (the latter a little worn top and bottom of spine otherwise a very good copy).
“A noted novelist of his day, White also went on several African safaris. In this, he travelled to British East Africa where he hunted lion on the Kapiti Plains and kudu near Tsavo…..” Czech p.172.
Details:
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Publisher Place: London
- Date of Publication: 1914
- Edition: First
- Jacket Condition: as per description
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo
- Lot No: 6
- Hammer Price: $116
- Bids: 2
- Visits: 68
- Estimate: $100/150
- Reserve: $85
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- Name: Chas J. Sawyer
- Address: 46 The Haydens, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1NS.
- Contact Person: Richard Sawyer
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
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