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1994441227PN. New. 1994. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
193462094London: Hodder & Stoughton 1934. Tall 8vo. xv 1 220 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illustrations maps plates. Blue publisher’s cloth blue lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art photo by Annette Mason minor chipping edgewear some age toning a few old tape repairs to verso still VG/VG- copy. First edition stated of this travel memoir by a British explorer and his wife across British Sudan in the early 1930’s by camel motor truck and automobile. Two years later in 1936 Mason would publish a further account of exploring the Libyan Desert in 1935 by automobile as “The Paradise of Fools: Being an Account. . .of the Expedition which covered 6300 miles. . .†Uncommon in original dustjacket. Zsolt G. Toroc The “English†Patient Fools Foxes and Rats: Exploration Mapping and War in the Libyan Desert Symposium on Shifting Boundaries; Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries Sept. 2008. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
191375814Leipzig 1913. Liten 8vo. Rødt originalbind. CXC 438 s. Illustrert med farvetrykte plansjer og karter. Verlag von Karl Bædeker. Tysk. <br/><br/><em>Pent eksemplar. </em> unknown
2438429 October 1907. On ‘Khartoum’ Sudan letterhead. The entry for Slatin in the Oxford DNB gives a good outline of the life of this adventurer. The present item forms half of a 4to leaf torn down the middle vertically no doubt in order to provide an autograph. In good condition lightly aged. Written lengthwise on the reverse in a large bold hand is the valediction: ‘Hoping that you are fit & well / Yours ever / R Slatin’. The text on the recto reads: ‘. Jackson / . again - and / .y Home a little .cians dates - although .d written word . the gift comes . & thank you for . this time the Katran . be a success’. 29 October 1907. On ‘Khartoum’ [Sudan] letterhead. unknown
