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London: John Long,, 1925. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Original purple cloth slightly faded, spine with fading and browning and slight nicking at ends, otherwise very good with clean contents. No jacket. Bookplate to pastedown.

London: John Long, Ltd., 1925. First UK edition. Octavo. Publisher's original purple cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Bottom edge untrimmed. Illustrated with 111 black and white photographs and two folding maps. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear and fading to the spine ends and a chip to the head of the spine. The contents with some occasional light foxing are otherwise in very good order throughout. The folding maps remain clean and crisp. The original dustwrapper with loss to the head of the spine panel, short splits to the joints, a little wear to the extremities, and some light scattered marking is otherwise also very good. A wide-ranging account of the adventures of the American journalist, war correspondent and travel writer Edward Alexander Powell (1879-1957) across East Africa during the early 1920s, copiously illustrated with original photographs by the author and Rexford W. Barton. Uncommon in the original early dustwrapper.

New York: The Century Company, 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Plates From Photographs; Folding Maps. Xx, 431 Pp. Purple Cloth, Gilt Lettering, Embossed Illustration In Blue And Gilt. First Printing. Absolutely Fine. No Marks Or Wear. Dust Jacket With No Ear Or Tear, Slight Blue Rubbing On Spine (From Another Book?), Slight Browning, Near Fine.