Alone in the Sleeping-Sickness Country by Felix Oswald - 2009-01-28

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1915. Cloth. Fair. With a map and 70 plates of photographs. Tissue-covered frontispiece photo of water lilies on the Olasi River. Slightly smaller, heavier book, red cloth with embossed and raised design at top front, with gilt on design at spine top, top-edge gilt, badly damaged at inner front hinge between inside front cover and first front end paper, less so at inner back hinge between back cover and final end paper, bottom half of final end paper torn off, 319 heavy pages, top tip to photo between 126 and 126 creased, photos on photo paper throughout, foxing to first front end paper. Very slight surface wear to bottom tips, surface wear spot at center front, microtears with light wear at spine bottom edge. Fair.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co, 1915. Hardcover. Good. 1915 Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co first edition hardback; Good reading copy, lightly aged condition, just name on fep, rubbed red boards with edge wear, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1923. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, photos, index, folding map, xii, 219p. Original cloth. 22cm. Modest wear at extremities. Backstrip lightened. No jacket.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1915. xii, 219, [1], frontis + 39 plates of b/w photos, folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. maroon cloth. Some foxing to prelims and occasionally elswhere. Signed inscription from the author. Bookplate of Frank Merry Stenton and Doris Mary Stenton, Whitley Park Farm, Reading. Frank Stenton (1880-1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon period, Professor of history (1926-1946) and vice-chancellor (1946-1950) of the University of Reading, and president of the Royal Historical Society (1937-1945). His wife, Doris Mary Stenton (1894-1971) was also a historian of the Middle Ages.. First edition. An account of the author's travels in East Africa among the native Kavirondo, while carrying out a geological investigation on behalf of the British Museum, of some Miocene deposits near Karungu, on the east coast of Victoria Nyanza..