The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley/October 1909 printing

 

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press Cambridge, October 1909

 

Hardcover: 538pp; 2nd printing; illustrated; map; index

 

Condition: ex-library; library bookplate dated December 9, 1909; red cloth boards; gilt lettering and design on front cover and spine. Boards and spine cloth detached; frontispiece with tissue detached; text block clean with all illustrations protected by tissues; rear board has foldout map attached and with slight edge wear; top edges gilt; side and bottom edges deckle

 

While this copy’s boards and frontispiece are detached, the binding is sound and the text near white, with no foxing. The volume was edited by the author’s wife, and published 5 years after his death in 1904.

 

Measures: 9 1/2” x 6 1/2” x 1 3/4”; weighs 2lb 9oz; sound copies with damage sell for $25 online

 

The book will be packaged securely and shipped as soon as payment is confirmed.