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London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Short tear on p. 169. Price-clipped dust jacket is fresh and bright with shelf rubbing and slight loss to top of spine. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. 8vo. 211 pp. including select bibliography. In protective Mylar.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1958 1st American edition of this biography of larger-than-life British traveller and thrill-seeker Col. Fred Burnaby. Tight and VG (with very light soiling at the panels) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the lower front tip and very light chipping and wear at the spine ends. Octavo, 215 pgs., including a midsection of black-and-white illustrations.

Rupert Hart-Davis. DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1957.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K.? Edition. good. 23 cm, 215, illus., color frontis illus., maps, footnotes, bibliography, boards somewhat worn and soiled. Colonel Frederick Burnaby was an English traveller and soldier.