Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1923). First Edition. First printing Near fine in brick colored cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorative rules on the spine and a facsimile of the author's signature on the front board, with gilt to the top edge of the text block. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. Without its issued dust jacket. 504 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a frontispiece portrait of the author. The autobiography of one of the nineteenth century's best known explorers and adventurers of Africa.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB24269
Title: The Story Of My Life
Author: Johnston, Sir Harry H
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: (1923)

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