On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer - 2009-09-01

Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1938. Eleventh Edition. 255 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Scuffing and light marking overall. Dark staining to edge of rear panel.

London: A. & C. Black Ltd.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1934. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. DJ has darkened spine with some discoloration. Dust jacket chipped with tears head and tail of spine and bottom back fore edge, bookplates on front pastedown, previous owner's name on front free end paper. Only light wear to book. ; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped, hinges intact. ; B&W Illustrations .

A&C Black, 1944-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1944 Reprint HB A and C Black; very good in very good unclipped jacket

London England: Adam and Charles Black, 1944. Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. Forty-Sixth Thousand. At the age of thirty r so Albert Schweitzer had achieved an international reputation as a theologian, a philosopher and a musician. Then, alread a Doctor of Theology and a Doctor of Philosophy, he added to his qualificiations a Doctorate of Medicine, renounced an unbounded academic futre in Europe, set out for Africa and there built a hospital with money collected through his organ recitals and his books and from his friends. This is the story of the founding of the hospital on the edge of the primeval forest, at Lambarene, near the mouth of the River Ogowe in West Equatorial Africa. it has become a classic of its kind because of its burning sincerity, its understanding of the primitive mind, its humour, the triumphs and tragedies of the adventure, and above all because the personality… Read More

A&C Black, 1944-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1955 printing A & C Black. Cover differs to the one shown. A readable copy of the book. Slight discolouration to the pages. Unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear to the edges of the dust jacket.