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…….. Antique book, hardcover … SCARCE title …early adventure fiction, set in Africa ……. fabric cover with printed illustration, on front and spine …… illustrated with etchings ………. published 1892 … …… possibly 1st English printing ……. ……. ‘THE CRUSOES OF GUIANA or The White Tiger’ ………. by Louis Boussenard, who travelled Africa …….. published in London by Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. ……. high mid-grade …….. tight, flat, clean and complete …… ….

…….. …….. as said …. possibly 1st English edition – but at the very least a very early English printing of the original 1885 first printing – which was in French …... … possibly a FIRST because Boussenard’s books suffered from a lack of English translations in the English-speaking countries due to his demonstrated disdain of Britons and Americans …….. ….

.… 246 pages ….. plus 32 pages of ads …. 28 illustrations … 7.5 x 5.5 inches …….. printed in Britain by Gilbert & Rivington ………… ….

…….. no major problems …… cover has some light surface and edge wear ……. most notable, there’s a SLIGHT ‘looseness’ in the fabric … front cover, middle …… heavily read, no surprise ……. LOOKS worse under camera …. cover still displays nicely ……….. inner pages all nice .. clean, no damage …………

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…….. Louis Henri Boussenard (1847 – 1910) was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed ‘the French Rider Haggard’ during his lifetime, but was known better in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries. As a measure of his popularity, 40 volumes of his collected works were published in Imperial Russia during 1911.

… A physician by profession, Boussenard travelled throughout the French colonies, especially in Africa. He was drafted during the Franco-Prussian War but soon capitulated to the Prussian soldiers, an experience that could explain a nationalist theme present in many of his novels. Some of his books demonstrate a certain disdain of Britons and Americans, a fact which likely contributed to his obscurity and lack of translations in the English-speaking countries. ……… .….

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