Major E a T Dutton (5 results)

Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to boards and rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise internally in very good condition with deckle edge pages free from marks or inscriptions. Please see images for further details and feel free to ask for further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 132 pages (complete). A placid copy. The boards have storage wear and marking. Nonetheless, they are secure and sure. Within, the pages are benign and comfortable. There are some freckles of foxing here and there. The frontispage has a previous owner notation. The pages are thick, clean, clear, paternal. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Basuto of Basutoland, Major E A T Dutton, 1923, first edition Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1923. Hard to find first edition. Overall good to very good. Blue cloth board covers, with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Slight rubbing to corners and spine with some scuff marks. Endpapers slightly browned with age. Owner's name neatly stamped. Tissue guarded (with slight crease) colour frontispiece. Text pages and plates very good overall. Nice clean copy. c. 123pp plus approx 40 plates and map. Dimensions: 237mm high x 173mm wide x 27mm deep.

8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; 132 pp, colored frontis from painting with tissue guard, plates from photos, map, other illus, bibliog, index. original blue cloth with gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, library bookplate on endpaper and inkstamps, good complete and sound copy. Based on the author's travels in South Africa, he describes the country, history, Bushman, Bantu, Basuto, the people, their life, family circle, women, hospitality, superstition, folk-tales with appendices on the battle of Berea, administration and statistics. A picture of this book is available on request.

Blue Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 132pp. A lovely copy. First edition. Illustrated with 42 full page plates as called for. Colour frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Gilt embossed lettering to the front board and spine. Light bump to the tail of the spine and a light bump to the lower edge of the rear board. Slight rubbing to the board corners. Neat ink name and date inscription to the front end paper. Slight foxing to the end papers. Lower and middle fore edges rough cut. Clean and tight. A very good copy.