The African Giant - the story of a journey by Cloete, Stuart - 1956

Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1955. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O address label on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Fair: Price Clipped; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; missing pieces at upper tips, spine and part of the rear board; chipping at tail. Tan boards and spine with dark brown shadowbox on the spine and decorations on the front board. Maps as endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 400 pp 8vo. This is a story of South Africa. The author, a prolific writer on South Africa, writes now of a year's travel, accompanied by his wife, from the Cape to the deserts of the north. In this we face the paradoxes of the Dark Continent, hear the testimony of emirs and missionaries, of career diplomats and native doctors, and see that the overwhelming problem of education of the… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Houghton Mifflin 1955 Later Printing Good++/Very Good DJ Ex-library with usual markings, deckled inside page edges, light wear to gold cloth, illustrated map end papers, solid structure, bright glossy dust jacket protected in Brodart Plasti-kleer reinforced dust jacket cover. 400 pages photo illustrated. HEAVY ITEM.. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good++/Very Good DJ. No Exp.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Boston, 1955. hardcover. very good. Illus. & Maps. 400pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. (chipped). Boston, (1955). Very good. Record of a year's travel from the Cape to the deserts of the North.<br/><br/>

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1955. cloth hard cover is in very good plus condition with slight wear with no dust jacket. has mapped illustrated endpapers. has a name on inside front cover otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. 400 pages includes index. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Rehna Cloete. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Collins. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. Slight shelf wear on the cover. Inscription to previous owner on inside cover

London: Collins, 1956. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Interesting Account of a years journey around Africa, including Rhodesia. Illustrated with Photos & Maps. Red cloth cover with dull gilt Lettering to spine. 448 Pages, 680g, 8 1/2" Tall. WHSmith label on endpaper. No other Library Markings. Spine colour faded. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Collins, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Very clean red cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on spine. No fraying, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (illustrated with maps); no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black & white photographs & maps. 448 pgs. with index. Dustjacket has small corner price clip at lower front inside flap edge, a few tiny edge chips and very short closed edge tears, clean except for faint shallow water mark to upper spine corner of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa..

London, Collins, 1956, First British edition. . original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, light wear on rear panel, very good, interior is quite clean. . 8vo [21.5 x 15 cm]; 448 pp, frontis from drwg, numerous photo plates, maps, map endpapers showing author's route, index. . Based on the author's extensive travels with his wife including west, central, east and southern Africa. The appendix gives the tribal oaths of the Mau Mau. Conover 29: 'Report on a year of travel covering all Africa south of the Sahara, by a well-known South African novelist'. A picture of this book is available on request by email.