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Winston S. Churchill - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples - 1956-1958
Nr. 82615663
Nr. 82615663
Handsome and scarce copy with colour and monochrome plates
First edition, and printing of this fascinating travelogue journey to North Africa. Illustrated with 44 plates including tissue-guarded coloured frontispiece, colour plates and monochrome photographs. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, 1911. Publisher's original emerald green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper board.
Book Dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 x 3.5 cm and Number of Pages: 288 including index.
Condition
A well-preserved copy. Firm and well bound. Light wear to boards’ corners, and to head and foot of spine. Internally; the book in very good condition. A name and dated 1911 with neat ink on top first front free endpaper page. Scattered tanned spotting to the margin of some pages. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are tightly held at gutters. The text is clean, and all plates are present and in very nice condition (Please see pictures).
John Foster Fraser
“Sir John Foster Fraser (13 June 1868 – 7 July 1936) was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book Round the World on a Wheel”.
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