* Rare * Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Equatorial Dawn (Africa) First Edition 1936

Author: Dorothy Una Ratcliffe 

Title: Equatorial Dawn Travel Letters From North,East,and Central Africa

Publication:  First Edition 1st Impression Published By Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1936……(See Pictures) 

Condition Of Book: 

This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No dust-jacket.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.Illustrated with 40 photographs and there is the folding map present.There is a little light foxing to the fore-edge of the book and some slight rubbing and wear to cloth at base of spine.McGrigor-Phillips (known as Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) was a Yorkshire Poet,but born in Brighton of a Yorkshire father.Dorothy moved to Leeds upon her first marriage and began a writing career that lasted from the 1920s all the way through to the 1960’s and she had published some 40 or so books of poetry,memoirs,travel and plays. She was the youngest ever Lady Mayoress of Leeds in 1913.Her books have become much sought after in her much loved Yorkshire and elsewhere,8vo 305pp First Edition 1st Impression [1936]