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Paperback / softback. New.

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

Hardback. New.

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

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. Here is the only biography of Burton written during his lifetime (and with his assistance). Penzer [p.306] considers this to be a "really good" life of the famed explorer and the first one worthy of the name. He calls it straightforward, without wandering off into "side channels" as Lady Burton does. Casada [#359, p. 104] is a bit less kind. These are Very Good (Minus) copies of the First Edition. Red cloth binding with red leather spine; Titling and rules in gilt on the spine. Clean text; unfoxed. Volume One is xi, 430 pages; with a frontis portrait of Burton in Arab dress with his signature (English and Arabic) reproduced; eleven others within. Volume Two has viii, 460 pages with Appendices and Index; frontis illustration and thirty others within. Both volumes show rubbing to the margins, with 1/8" chips to the head of their spines. The gutters have been repaired with filmoplast.. First Edition. Quarter-Bound. Very… Leer más