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Chez l'auteur, imprimé en Rome. In-8° broché de 373pp. Avec un cahier de photographies et cartes en couleur et N&B. Français Très bon état général. Intérieur frais et agréable, comme neuf.

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 281 p. ; 21 cm. Notes: Fictionalized biography. Bibliography: p. 280-281. Subjects: Hinderer, Anna Martin 1827-1870; Hinderer, David; Church Missionary Society; Yoruba (African people) Missions. 3 Kg.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear consistent with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Creasing visible across spine strip and exterior hinges. Light curling and bending to covers. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 281 p. ; 21 cm. Notes: Fictionalized biography. Bibliography: p. 280-281. Subjects: Hinderer, Anna Martin 1827-1870; Hinderer, David; Church Missionary Society; Yoruba (African people) Missions. 1 Kg.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 281 pages. book sellers stamp front fly.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 175 pp blue cloth with silver titles, blue top. Top corners bumped, inscription to ffep, minor reading wear, dust wrapper faded and rubbed.

274pp.+ portrait, softcover, 18cm., VG.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 320 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial red and black with off-white and yellow lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including slight sunning, some scuffs, several chips to the head/tail edges and slight soiling. Age toning, minor offsetting and tape mends interiorly. Protective cellophane adhered to the exterior, clipped flap corners. Previous bookshop's small price sticker to the front flap. Boards have slight wear including faint sunning and slight edge wear. Text block has modest wear wear including age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored black. Few, slight marks the front end paper. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U, ND-U. 1404176. FP New Rockville Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scarce paperback, 267 pages, b&w photos and maps in text, NOT ex-library. No ISBN. A good copy with signs of wear (creased lower outer corner of the rear cover, leaned spine, some small grubby handling marks inside covers, shelfwear; faint grubby marks on a few text pages). Unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. --- A reprint with minor amendments & new cover, preface and illustrations. Melchior-Marie-Joseph de Marion-Brésillac, S.M.A. (1813 - 1859) was a Catholic prelate and the founder of the Society of African Missions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With dustjacket. Scarce in dust jacket. First edition, 1945. Sunned spine to dust jacket with 10mm losss to head and foot of d/j spine and a few small tears to head of d/j. Uncommon autobiography describing the author`s childhood and youth in Taunggyi/Burma, which is about 400 miles north of Rangoon and 200 miles west of the border with China before the Japanese conquest of Burma. In this book is a picture of life with the Shan people 30 years before 1945, their way of living under their cheiftains, the Sawbwas, their craftsmanship, their religion, their villages amongst the mountains. No foxing, no toning to text block, quite unusual for a book of this age. Neat original owner's signature inside endpaper pastedown. 176pp. Printed on Wartime Economy Standard paper, which has held up remarkably well.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in the rare Dust-Jacket graded Very Good with a couple of tiny nicks to the head of spine.There is one previous name to the front endpaper and one to the half title page with small Nigeria bookshop label to the same page.Not Price clipped.The dust-jacket design comes from a Manchester cotton design of 'Mammy Cloth' complete with 13 black and white plates.Scarce title on previous slavery in Nigeria and it's growth into becoming a prosperous self sufficient Country.8vo 320pp First Edition 1st Impression [1956].

Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding with unclipped dust jacket, 175 pages, dust jacket a bitt rubbed and sunned on spine, otherwise very good condition. Uncommon autobiography describing the author`s childhood and youth in Taunggyi / Burma, which is about 400 miles north of Rangoon and 200 miles west of the border to China, where the parrents of the author started to work in 1906. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Quiet Skies on Salween. Book.

Hard. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Very lightly rubbed and bumped, spine sunned, creased and foxed. Foxing to closed edges with the odd small patch throughout, else pp clean and tidy, text and plates bright. Size: 8vo.