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UK: George C. Harrap & Co., 1936. clean dark purple bds with gilt title to spine. spine fading with bump to top spine end. owners inscript to ffep. b/w portrait to frontis. b/w photo plates to text. a little very light smudgy soiling to a few pages, otherwise interior very good and clean. bindings tight. front edge uncut. Unclipped browning d.j. with creasing and tears to edges. tearing and losses to spine ends and top corners. small losses to bottom spine ends, sunning to spine, rubbing to spine edges and 28mm split to front spine edge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Desert Encounter : An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
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London, UK: George G Harrap & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 282pp, some black and white photographic plates. Purple cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed yellow, fore edge untrimmed. 8vo. Sun-faded spine; rubbed spine ends, cloth fraying; quite cocked. Top text block edge colour fading, remaining edges tanning and foxing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Gutters strained, volume loose. Internally neat and clean, barring some foxing throughout.
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Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
by Holmboe, Knud (trans.by Helga Holbek)
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 266pp.; HB red w/white&ornge labels; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; bookplate; ft.hinge cracking; some lt.fox w/clean,tight pgs. "Written some time before the invasion of Abyssinia it foreshadows the methods of colonization and subjugation which Italy may be expected to pursue in her newly conquered territory." illus.
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Desert Encounter. An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936 VG/G+. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & marked, some spotting & offsetting, RFE removed) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & frayed with some chipping, sopme sunning & spotting); pp. 282, with 61 illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy in a worn dustwrapper. . Reprint. VG/G+.
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DESERT ENCOUNTER; AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY THROUGH ITALIAN AFRICA
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London: George C. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1936. Translated from the Danish by Helga Holbek. With an Introduction by J. H. Driberg. 61 b/w illustrations. 282 pages, clean and clear. White endpapers. Ffep missing. Red cloth cover with gilt titles on the spine. Faded spine, light wear to head and tail of spine, corners bumped, stains on front cover. VG.
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Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
by Knud Holmboe Translated From The Danish By Helga Holbek
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Handling wear to the cover, bumping to the corners and spine and fading to the spine. Inside the book has foxing to the end-papers and title page and an inscription on the front end-papers. The pages have some light foxing, but remain clean and free from markings.
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Desert encounter;: An adventurous journey through Italian Africa
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Putnam, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1937 Putnam hardcover in a chipped and price clipped dust jacket unmarked b136
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DESERT ENCOUNTER.: An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa.
by Holmboe, Knud. (Tr. Helga Holbek).
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Harrap. London 1936 1st edition thus.. Inscription on ffep. minor foxing only. spine faded. a sound clean reading copy.. Mauve cloth boards. 281pp illustrated b/w photos. 8vo. Translated from the Danish. A convert to Islam, Holmboe wrote concerning his travels in 1930 from Morocco through Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, to Cyrenaica. He was murdered near Akaba by brigands the following year.
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DESERT ENCOUNTER: An Adventurous Journey Through North Africa
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New York: G. P. Putnam, 1937. 1st Edition. Original orange cloth with mounted title labels to spine and front board. Fading to the spine and along teh top edges of the cloth. Very Good. 8vo. xiii + 266pp., illustrated throughour with many b/w plates (62 photos) and two maps. Transalated from the Danish by Helga Holbek, and Introduction by J. H. Driberg.
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DESERT ENCOUNTER An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
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London: George G. Harrap & Co.. Good. 1936. Cloth. 282pp; 61 b/w illusts being reproductions from photographs taken by the author, with maps of the first and last parts of the journey. Oiginal purple cloth cover faded, foxing to foredges, previous owner's inscription and bookplate to front endpaper.; 220 x 145mm .
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Desert Encounter. An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
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London: George G. Harap, 1936. Translated from the Danish by Helga Holbek. Introductin by J H Driberg. 279pp, bw ills, maps. Prev owner's stamp on the front flyleaf. Prelims, endpages and page edges lightly foxed. Or purple cloth boards in attractive dust-jacket which has a 3cm closed tear from the spine head and a nick at the spine foot. The author was a young Dane who embraced Islam and in 1930 conceived the idea of driving a car from Morocco to Egypt garbed as an Arab and studying Arab culture as he journeyed. As well as the Arab culture the book reveals the shocking way in which Italian Imperialism was practiced in Abyssinia under General Graziani who executed 'rebels' at the rate of 30 a day. Also looks at the activities of guerillas under the command of Ahmar Moktar.. First English Language Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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DESERT ENCOUNTER an Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa
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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. 282 pages in very good condition. Illustrated. Previous owner's name on the ffep. Burgundy hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Spine and edges faded, corners bumped. GOOD. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good.
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Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey through Italian Africa
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London: Harrap, 1936. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 282pp., frontis., b/w pls., map, Account by a young Danish Moslem convert revealing the shocking way in which Italian Imperialism was practised in Abyssinia under General Graziani who executed 'rebels' at the rate of 30 a day. Vast concentration camps were guarded by native troops from Eritrea & the death penalty was applied for menial crimes. Also looks at the activities of guerillas under the command of Ahmar Moktar. He was eventually arrested & brutally deported
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DESERT ENCOUNTER AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY THROUGH ITALIAN AFRICA
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London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1936. 282p., notes, illustrations, light foxing, original purple cloth with gilt spine titles, faded spine, VG-. First UK Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Desert encounter : an adventurous journey through Italian Africa / by Knud Holmboe ; translated from the Danish by Helga Holbek ; with an introduction by J. H. Driberg
by Holmboe, Knud (1902-1931)
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London : George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 281, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations (maps) plates, portraits 23 cm. Subjects; Africa, North Description and travel. Libyan Desert Description and travel. Italy Colonies Africa. Sahara Description and travel 20th century.
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