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Published by Hutchinson, 1957
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1957. First Published. 231 pages. Grey dust jacket over purple cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
Published by Hutchinson
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1957
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 231 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over purple cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Moderately tanned and lightly foxed.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1957
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 8vo. ex boots library. Worn extremities. Cracked rear hinge. Book.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Hutchinson. 1957., 1957
Seller: Geoff Blore`s Books, Nottingham, United Kingdom
HB. DW. 2nd imp. DW rubbed & chipped at extrems of spine & corners. Good.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1957
Seller: AardBooks, Fitzwilliam, NH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG-/VG. 1st. 12mo. 231pp. Spine cocked some, a few foxing spots to edges. Bit of wear head and. heel of DJ, a little toning DJ spine.
Published by Hutchinson of London, London, England, 1957
Seller: Cornerstone Books, Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. This work is the biography of Mary Kingsley, a Victorian woman who became an explorer and naturalist. Her adventures, her casual encounters with leopards, crocodiles, and gorillas, are incredible and the author has selected the raciest and most exciting passages in her accounts of her travels. An index is included. The endpapers serve as maps. This copy is clean and solid. British book review is laid in.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1957, 1957
Seller: lobstabooks, Leiston, United Kingdom
VG/Good +. (dj is not price-chipped, but a tad sunned to spine, which also shows some rubs/crushing to both ends over the spine. minimal loss. .no inscriptions or marginalia. front cover has a stain to top right hand corner area - possibly from water splash, whcih may clean.
Published by Hutchinson, 1957
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
1st edition, 1957. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Oxblood cloth with gilt lettering - lightly rubbed - on spine. Bottom corners a little bumped. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1957
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second impression. 231 pp, with frontispiece, printed map endpapers, index. Dust soiling to edges; corners lightly bumped; contents clean and sound. Dust jacket is price clipped and lightly edgeworn. Biography of the celebrated explorer and naturalist.
First Edition
(London): Hutchinson of London, (1957). First edition. Hardcover book complete in its original dust jacket (unclipped). 22 cm. 231 pp. From the private collection of noted book collector/dealer, Horst K. Joost. In near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, pages bright. Light edge wear/tear to the spine-toned dust jacket (now protected under a removable mylar sleeve).
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1957
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. NEAR-FINE (VERY SLIGHT WEAR AT SPINE ENDS) IN VERY GOOD+ DUST JACKET WITH 21s PRICE, CLEAN PANELS AND SPINE, AND SLIGHT CHIPPING AT SPINE ENDS. NO WRITING OR NAMES. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 231 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hutchinson, UK, 1959. 3rd Printing. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Biography of traveller to Africa Mary Kingsley, who was Charles Kingsley's (The Water Babies) sister. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 08070246. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale.
Published by Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Limited, London, UK, 1957
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second impression. Biography of one of the few Victorian women who played a part in Britain's colonies. She travelled through West Africa studying the native peoples and fighting for their rights. 231pp. Chipping and small nicks to top and bottom of DJ spine. DJ price clipped. Name and date on free endpaper. Small bookseller label on fixed endpaper.
1957 2ND D/W MINOR LOSSTOP/BOTTOM OF SPINE REPAIRED O/W VG/G++.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, London, 1957
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
231p., maps on the endpapers, lightly chipped dj.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1959
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. Third Impression. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to verso FFE, a few spots, binding a little shaken, rubbed; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 232 (last blank), with endpaper maps. A good copy.
Hard Cover. Condition: Goo. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Impression. 231 pp. Light general and edgewear to price-clipped dustjacket. including small tears to top of spine panel. Bookseller stamp, and prev. owner's inked name, to ffep. Otherwise clean, tightly bound. Maps to endpapers (West Africa, and French Equatorial Africa). "One of the select number of Victorian women who turn all ideas of the word Victorian upside-down, Mary Kingsley was a great, but also an attractive, human being. There is a unique charm in her unconsciousness that her achievements as an explorer and naturalist were anything out of the ordinary, or that the study of fetish was less usual for young ladies than Berlin wool work." Size: Octavo.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1957
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good copy, unclipped DJ some shelfwear, deep red cloth with gilt titles to the spine.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1959
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Third Impression. VG/VG. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, a few spots, spine a little slanted) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, backstrip toned, spine ends a little frayed); pp. 232 (last blank), with endpaper maps. A very good copy.
Published by Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 178-202 Great Portland Street, London First Edition . London 1957., 1957
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original plum cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 231 printed pages of text with sepia illustrated frontispiece, maps of West Africa in 1898 to the end papers. Spine ends and corners slightly turned in. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small nicks and chips to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped 21s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
Published by Hutchinson, 2nd impression,, 1957
Seller: Naomi Symes Books PBFA, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 231pp.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. *** BOOK in good clean and tight condition; pages atarting to brown Maroon boards with gilt title on spine. Maps on endpapers. 231 pages including index, frontispiece. *** DUST JACKET in good condition, slight edgewear, no paper loss and not price clipped. Cellophane protected. *** CONTENTS: "An immensely entertaining book which gives us an endearing picture of this highly intelligent and brilliantly witty woman." Size: 220x140mm.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1959
Seller: M. & A. Simper Bookbinders & Booksellers, WARRNAMBOOL, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Impression. 231pp; boards water soiled, endpaper maps, frontis, dustwrapper chipped.; 215 x 145mm.
Published by Hutchinson 1957, 1957
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. portrait frontispiece, map endpapers, near fine in dust jacket. first edition; 231 pages including index; keywords: biography & autobiography - women authors;