* Rare * The Gentle Savage by Richard Wyndham 1st Edition in D/J 1936

Author: Richard Wyndham

Title: The Gentle Savage (A Sudanese Journey in the Province of Bahr-el-Ghazal,commonly called ‘The Bog’)      

Publication: First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By Cassell and Company London 1936……..(See Pictures) 

Condition Of Book and Dust-Jacket: 

This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher’s blue cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine in a Good Dust-Jacket that has several tiny nicks and tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Price Clipped.There are no previous owner’s names to the endpapers but there is a former owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness.Illustrated with a Coloured frontispiece and with 48 photographs by the Author plus a map.The frontispiece is matched by the dust-jacket in it’s design.Fascinating account of this well known painter of his travels in Southern Sudan up the Nile by river boat and into the heart of the Dark Continent.Scarce title especially with the original dust-wrapper still present.8vo 245pp plus plates.First Edition 1st Impression [1936] 

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