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Ca. 1915

Henry A. Stern

Missionary Traveller and Abyssinian Captive

By E. C. Dawson, M.A.

Rare Antique Book ~ Victorian ~ Decorative-Cloth Publisher’s Binding ~ Illustrated ~ Travel ~ Exploration ~ Discovery ~ Dervishes ~ Arabia ~ Sudan ~ Abyssinia ~ Ethiopia ~ Held Captive ~ Chained and Beaten ~ Torture ~ Imprisonment

Publisher:

London: The Sunday School Union, no date, circa 1915.

Features:

Splendid Lives Series.

Measures 7.3 x 5 inches.

Original decorative-cloth publisher’s binding: blue cloth with black and white pictorial stamping and gold-gilt spine label.

Frontispiece.

Illustrated with full-page plates and part-page engravings.

120 pages plus book ads.

Condition:

Very Good.

The covers are generally clean and bright with waviness at the front hinge, a bumped and lightly worn corner, and minor scuffing. The textblock is solid and square. The pages are clean and bright though tanned with age. Minor spot, smudge, or foxing to a few pages. Slight spotting or foxing to the endpapers. Old ink inscription dated 1915 to the front endpapers. No other writing or marking.