More Sketches of Kenya
Baden-Powell Major- General R.S.S.
Published by Macmillan and Co Ltd., London, 1940
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Grubby cream covers with brown title and vignette of elephant to front. Titles to spine which is sunned and back strip has split between cover and spine. Neat inscription on ffepo dated 1942. o/w internally very clean.152pp. Illustrated throughout by Baden-Powell. Seller Inventory # 006820
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Title: More Sketches of Kenya
Publisher: Macmillan and Co Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1940
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
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More Sketches of Kenya
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MacMillan and Co. Ltd, 1940
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Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref.II2 ) Beige cloth boards with brown titles to front and spine and illustration to front. Boards are a little grubby looking with some small stains, darkening and wear to head and heel of spine and material starting to split at right spine hinge. Greyed top edge. Yellowed foredge. Seller Inventory # 010312
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MORE SKETCHES OF KENYA
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Macmillan, 1940
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Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Little wear to hard back book.152 pages. Some colour change to boards.Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.Minor foxing to prelims. Seller Inventory # 034853
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More Sketches of Kenya
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Macmillan and Co., London, 1940
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8v. Pp vii, 152. Illustrations by the author. Original cloth, spine faded abd with a strip of fading to front cover. Spine rubbed. No inscriptions. Near fine internally. Seller Inventory # 05687
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More Sketches of Kenya
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MACMILLAN, LONDON, 1940
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st English Edition. Scarce in a reasonably decent jacket. This copy's jacket is missing a corner about 1" square, torn along half the spine, but without loss, missing a small triangle off one of the back corners, and chipped at top and bottom of spine with small loss. Wedged in its protective wrapper the losses are diminished. Interior clean and unmarked. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # X020167
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More Sketches of Kenya
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London. Macmillan. First Edition, 1940
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Libris Books, Southminster, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London. Macmillan. 1940. Presumed first edition. Hardcover with very scarce unclipped dustjacket. Grey boards with elephant vignette in black line to the front board and further vignette of hunter on the spine. Tiny bit of softening at the spine ends. Contents are clean apart from a previous owner name on the front endpaper. Lovely black and white line drawings throughout. Dustjacket has little wear except for a 1in closed tear to the rear and some chipping at the spine head A few odd yarns about the birds and beasts of Kenya. Seller Inventory # T11607155
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More Sketches of Kenya.
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London, Macmillan and Co. Limited., 1940
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Hardcover
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
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15.5 cm x 20 cm. 151 pages. Hardcover [publisher's original cream cloth] with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Foxing to interior, but otherwise bright and clean. Binding is strong and firm and square. Includes, for example, the following: A Land for Animal-Lovers / Wolf-Children and a Baboon Boy / Locusts / Buffalo Hunting / Bouncing Birds / White Man's Magic/ Charged by a Rhino / Elephant Yarns / Making Men in Kenya etc. Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (1857 1941), was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement. Educated at Charterhouse in Surrey, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. For this he was a national hero. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english. Seller Inventory # 120211AB
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