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The Fountain Of The Sun: Unfinished Journeys In Ethiopia And The Ruwenzori by Douglas Busk - 1957

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The Fountain Of The Sun: Unfinished Journeys In Ethiopia And The Ruwenzori by Douglas Busk - 1957

The Fountain Of The Sun: Unfinished Journeys In Ethiopia And The Ruwenzori

by Douglas Busk

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Max Parrish, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1957. First Published. 240 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white and colour photographic plates. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with with heavy rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.
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  • Publisher Max Parrish
  • Date Published 1957

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The Fountain of The Sun

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Parrish, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and sunned.Tanning.Ownership inscription.Well bound.Good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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1957. 1957 Busk, Douglas THE FOUNTAIN OF THE SUN; UNFINISHED JOURNEYS IN ETHOPIA AND THE RUWENZORI London: Max Parrish, c1957 240pp index, color frontis, b/w photos 8vo former owner's signature on first free epage, some fading on spine, covers, else internally fine.
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Max Parrish, 1957. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with very scarce dust jacket With a signature on title page one felix reich - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post
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The Fountain of The Sun (Unfinished Journeys In Ethiopia and Ruwenzori)

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London: Max Parrish. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original blue hardcover cloth,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has some rubbing and wear to the outer edges of the dust-jacket and with one small closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear cover.Price clipped and the book has no previous inscriptions present.Clean copy internally with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Illustrrated with 45 plates and some 4 maps.There is some foxing along the fore-edge of the book.The dust-jacket comes well protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 240pp First Edition 1st Impression [1957] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1957.
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The Fountain of the Sun

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Max Parish, 1957. Account of travels through Ethiopia and the Ruwenzori. Illustrated in colour and b/w with maps, bibliography and index.
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London: Max Parrish, 1957. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 240pp. Quarto. Publisher's blue cloth; spine title in gilt. Spine faded, minor shelfwear to crown and foot, corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front paste-down, dated 1957; hand written card placed loosely in at front with additional detached dust jacket panels and advertisment poster. Illustrated colour frontis; B/W plates from photographs in text. A tight copy; interior bright and clean. very good Association copy; personally inscribed by the author and his wife to their friend, French film director Bernard Pierre. A facsimile of Douglas Busk's obituary in the Times is tipped in with a note from his wife to M. Pierre. Also included is the publicity annoucement for Pierre's film "Montagnes de la Lune", released in 1957. Ephemera and association make this copy one of a kind. 1957
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