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Balfour (Alice Blanche)

Description:

Illustrated by the author.

De Luxe Edition, facsimile reprint: 265 pages, colour frontispiece, many illustrations including three additional colour plates reproduced from the Balfour Portfolio in the National Archives of Rhodesia, maps as endpapers, and a folding map at the end, quarter blue leather with a orange title label on the spine, light blue cloth sides, top edge gilt, contained in a light blue cloth slip case, a very good copy.

Number 21 of the Collector’s Edition limited to 140 copies.

Details:

  • Publisher: The Pioneer Head
  • Publisher Place: Salisbury, Rhodesia
  • Date of Publication: (1895) 1970
  • Edition: Collector’s Edition
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 145 mm)
  • Lot No: 176
  • Hammer Price: $100
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 44
  • Estimate: $150/200
  • Reserve: $100

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