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Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, 14 plates on 12 and endpaper maps in brown; pictorial cloth, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The pictorial cloth binding depicts the river port of Brazzaville. Cross & Perkin A40(a)
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, plates, illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in cream, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Revised and amended version (with new binding and illustrations) of the original FS edition of 1976. Cross & Perkin A40(a)
8vo., Sixth Impression, with very numerous illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Gavin de Beer's classic survey was first published in 1928. All early printings are scarce in the dustwrapper.
2 vols., 8vo., Third Impression thus, with 2 portrait frontispieces, map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1870-1914; Vol. II: 1914-1931. Huxley's first published work is a classic of Kenyan, indeed of East African, history. First issued by Macmillan in 1935, it was an immediate success - the 'Kenya Weekly News' urged its readers to buy the book 'even though it costs the equivalent of 8 sacks of maize'. It was re-issued by Chatto & Windus in 1953 and then again in 1968 with an important new Preface. This is the third impression thus. SCARCE IN ANY IMPRESSION, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See Cross & Perkin A1(d).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 portrait frontispieces, 22 plates, a map in the text and 4 large folding maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. and map in the text and 4 large folding maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE AND INSCRIPTION ON TITLES, AND LONG A.L.s TO THE RECIPIENT IN POCKET AT END OF FIRST VOLUME. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end of first volume. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1870-1914; Vol. II: 1914-1931. Huxley's first published work is a classic of Kenyan, indeed of East African, history. It was an immediate success - the 'Kenya Weekly News' urged its readers to buy the book 'even though it costs the equivalent of 8 sacks of maize'. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Perkin A1(a).
