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Text/Near New & Bright. Embossed salmon linen boards/VG w/light rubs to corner tips, small loss to upper spine edge, marked fading to spine, & light over all discoloration. Light spotting the leading text edge. Discoloration to fEP; gift dedication to 2nd free endpaper. Frontispiece: Cartoon of Sir Toby, M.P. by E.T. Reed, reproduced from Punch. Memoirs of English journalist, Sir Henry Lucy, who was very much "in the loop". Book dedicated to the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith, M.P. Reminiscences of a "long period of initmate intercourse with public affairs and public men. About two thirds of the volume ran for some 8 months in the Cornhill Magazine. 27 chapters beginning with a description of Fleet Street in the 1870s (already centre of London journalism and specifically at the bar of Spiers and Pond's Restaurant at Ludgate Hill). Beyong the political entries, contents include portraits of 6 explorers: Stanley & Nasen, Sir Harry Johnston, Sven Hedin, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Dr. Schliemann. Strong copy. Seller Inventory # 005338
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Title: SIXTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS : More ...
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co, London, UK
Publication Date: 1912
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 2nd Series of 1912
