Cairo to Kisumu: Egypt - The Sudan - Kenya Colony
by Carpenter, Frank G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. Moderate spots of foxing to dustjacket. A 2/3" tear at head of dustjacket spine, and small 3/8" chips at corners of dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xiv, [2], 313 pages + frontispiece + plates + 2 folding maps. Blue cloth boards with circular gilt ship illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 229 x 151mm. Top page edges gilt. 115 illustrations. Selected chapter titles: In the Bazaars of Cairo; Climbing the Great Pyramid; Old Thebes and the Valley of the Kings; Steaming through the Land of Cush; Across Africa by Air and Rail; Omdurman, Stronghold of the Mahdi; Through the Suez Canal; Along the African Coast; Aden; In Mombasa; The Uganda Railway; The Great Rift Valley and the Masai. ; Carpenter's World Travels; 4to .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16244
- Title
- Cairo to Kisumu: Egypt - The Sudan - Kenya Colony
- Author
- Carpenter, Frank G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1925
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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