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THE WHITE LILY OF THE GREAT SAHARA: A Romance of the Algerian Arabs Under Abd-el-Kader.
by EDEN, Charles H.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1879.. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 further black and white full-page wood-engraved plates. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink to the front free endpaper. 356pp. A good copy, the binding secure although with some cracking in places and a couple of small marks to the lower board. The contents a little shaken with the final gathering slightly loose and with foxing to the endpapers and edges of the textblock are otherwise in good order. An uncommon novel set in Algeria during the period of Emir Abdelkader's leadership of the struggle against French colonialism, by the author and traveller Charles Henry Eden (1839-1900), best known for his writings regarding his life and experiences in Queensland, Australia.
LibraryHub records four institutional copies in the UK (BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Nat. Lib. Scotland). WorldCat does not record any copies held in overseas institutions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1244
- Title
- THE WHITE LILY OF THE GREAT SAHARA:
- Author
- EDEN, Charles H.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Marcus Ward & Co.
- Date Published
- 1879.
- Keywords
- History & Military|Literature|Travel & Exploration
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About the Seller
Sky Duthie Rare Books
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire
About Sky Duthie Rare Books
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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