From Red Sea to Blue Nile by Rosita Forbes - 1939

United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 1939. Pocketbook. Pocketbook. Good. wraps with flaps, 280 pp dj worn and torn on the spine Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Limited, 1939. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original Penguin vintage softcover in original dust jacket. The "Travel and Adventure" pink & white cover scheme. Some toning/staining to spine area of jacket and book. Page edges also toned, the upper edge also shows a mild small stain. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book and jacket. Very neat, and scarce, especially in this condition. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Penguin Books Limited, 1939., 1939. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST PENGUIN. Softcover, pp. 280, [8] catalogue and advertisements. Publishers' cerise and white striped card wraps with black titles in matching dust-jacket. Minor creasing to corners and 1-inch split at lower front joint but covers clean and bright. Tidy ownership inscription to half-title. Jacket lightly soiled to white panel, with 1-inch closed tear at lower front joint and splits to front fold (approx 3 inches at centre and 2 small at each end). A Very Good copy in Good jacket. Travel and Adventure series 205, an account of her 1000 mile journey into the heart of Ethiopia.

New York:: Macaulay Company,, [1925].. publisher's decorated blue cloth.. Large old ink ownership signature; otherwise a bright, near fine copy, with traces of light rubbing at the extremities of the spine.. 8vo,. With fifty-nine illustrations from photographs by the author; folding map..

Lee Furman. Hardcover. Good - Cash/No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear and some soiling on edges. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939. First edition. This early Penguin travel and adventure paperback = number 205. Some wear at top and bottom of spine, but the book has been well protected by the dust wrapper so it's a bright tight copy. The dustwrapper itself is still all there but the inside front flap has become removed from the rest and there is damage at the top and bottom of the spine. So a Good copy in a somewhat tatty dustwrapper. 280 pages including glossary but excluding adverts. Allenby states: "Rosita Forbes has penetrated where, hitherto, no English man or woman has set foot." .

Middlesex, UK.: Penguin Books Limited., 1939. In a good Dust Wrapper. Some Browning to the Pages. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE!. Not Signed or Inscribed.. This is the FIRST EDITION. Card Cover.. Very Good (AVERAGE)/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Card Covered Paperback.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1925. First US edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), 386pp. 59 b&w plates from photographs by the author. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is some light staining of the boards, some light bumping of the binding, light foxing of the preliminary pages and a gift inscription; overall, this book is in good condition.

By Rosita Forbes. With a map and sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author. London: Cassell, 1925 Med.8vo. xii,368p. numerous illustrations on plates, folding map, index. From the library of Dr Juel-Jensen with his original invoice inserted, school library stamps to endpapers, faint number to spine, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's grey cloth. [Pankhurst: 147] - "...made one of the first films on Ethiopia, journeys in 1920 from Jibuti to Dire Dawa by rail and then to Harar by muleback, across the Hawash river to Ankobar and Addis Ababa..." We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a… Read More