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Travel Book Club, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No edition remarks. 232 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable holes to spine. Scuffing to edges and panels. Small water mark to front panel. Light rubbing and marking all over.

London: Travel Book Club. no date of publication, 232 pages, illustrated. . Very Good. Original Yellow Cloth. Reprint..

London, 1957. hardcover. Many illustrations. d.w. London, 1957. First edition<br/><br/>

Travel Book Club, 1000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 232 pages, condition is very good. East From Tunis: A Record of Travels on the Northern Coast of Africa. Like Herodotus, who travelled on the northern coast of Africa over 2,000 years ago, Mr. Carrington is an excellent observer and a man of insatiable curiosity. This account of a recent journey from Tunis to Egypt takes in many towns, ancient and modern- Carthage, Kairouan, Sousse, Sfax, Gabes, Tripoli, Leptis Magna. Benghazi, Cyrene, Alexandria. In the author's agreeable company. we visit the troglodytes of Matmata and the former palace of Farouk, the home of the Lotus-Eaters and the Lake of Lethe. We learn about Roman mosaics and modern missionaries, about North African medicine, education and cooking, Arab folk tales, war cemeteries, catacombs, plant-life, pottery, carpet-weaving, sponge-fishing, camels and locusts. Fascinating questions are asked and answered-why is the Sahara all sand? Why have so many Roman statues got broken… Read More

London: The Travel Book Club slight wear to cover edges, remains of DJ glued to front, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear, library sticker spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. 39 b/w photos. 232 pp. White endpapers. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Top corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn. Brown DJ with white titles and blue illustration. Large chip from spine`s head, long chip from front bottom edge, small stains. VG+/FAIR.

London. Chatto And Windus. 1957 Hard Cover book . First Edition. In dust jacket. 232 pages, with illustrations. This book is, an account of a journey from Tunis to Egypt that takes in many towns, ancient and modern. A Fine Book without inscriptions in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped, in clear sleeve. Pictures available.