Don Roberto: Being the Account of the Life and Works of R. B. Cunninghame Graham 1852 - 1936. by A F. Tschiffely - 1937

William Heinemann, 1937. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:

W. Heinemann, 1937. Hardcover. Good. 1937. First Edition. 458 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Minor foxing and tanning to pages and plates. Noticeably heavier and more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Very subtle cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has slightly heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1937.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, dark blue publisher's cloth (heavily spotted), gilt logo on front cover, gilt lettering on smooth spine; two pieces of dust jacket (front and flap from inside front) tipped to blank recto of frontispiece. In good to very good condition. Frontispiece, xx, 458 pp., (1 blank l.), 29 ll. of plates, facsimiles and maps in text. *** FIRST EDITION. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) moved to Argentina as a young man to make his fortune cattle-ranching. He was affectionately known as "Don Roberto," a great adventurer and gaucho. Later he traveled to Morocco as a Turkish sheik, prospected for gold in Spain, befriended Buffalo Bill, and taught fencing in Mexico City. By the early 1880s he returned to his native Scotland, where he became a radical socialist, journalist, and prolific author.***

London: William Heinemann Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. In midnight blue/black boards with bright, unblemished gilt lettering to the spine, and a bright gilt 'motif' to the front board. In the original publisher's black/red lettered dustjacket which is complete, with a little closed chipping to the head of the spine, but is very sunned (the cream colour has 'tanned') to the spine and edges - but all titling/lettering, etc, is Very Clear. Overall a VG minus dustjacket which is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Very Good. The dustjacket is NOT price clipped. The page fore-edges are foxed (light brown spots) but Internally the text block is VERY clean and tight. (xx) + 458 pp. Frontispiece (A Bronze Bust of 'Don Roberto' by Jacob Epstein) , plus full page b/w plates, line-illustrations and Maps in the text, Bibliography, Index. "The classic biography of Robert Bontine… Read More