My Winter on the Nile
by WARNER, Charles Dudley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. 496pp/frontis. Red pictorial cloth with gilt boat and titles. Text is toned but clean. First edition, published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company, of Warner's account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques, visits to the Pharaoh tombs, and interactions with local Egyptians and their culture. Through interpreters, Warner spoke with everyone he could to soak up as much of the Egyptian life as possible while he traveled around what was, at the time, considered an unknown part of the world to many Americans. Warner (1829-1900) was an American novelist, a friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored The gilded age. Overall clean.. 12th Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012250
- Title
- My Winter on the Nile
- Author
- WARNER, Charles Dudley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket - Issued
- Edition
- 12th Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Exploration, Nile River
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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