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First edition of The Far Interior by Walter Montagu Kerr, a classic of African travel through South Africa to the Zambesi.
First edition of The Far Interior by Walter Montagu Kerr, a classic of African travel through South Africa to the Zambesi.
First edition of The Far Interior by Walter Montagu Kerr, a classic of African travel through South Africa to the Zambesi.
First edition of The Far Interior by Walter Montagu Kerr, a classic of African travel through South Africa to the Zambesi.

KERR, Walter Montagu.

The Far Interior: a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of central Africa.

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886.

$1,163.00
$1,163.00

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The US and UK editions were published simultaneously and from the same print run, although Czech cites the US. 'Kerr travelled to the South African diamond fields to seek his fortune. He met Frederick Selous, the pair venturing into the interior of Matabeleland... A classic of African adventure.' - Czech.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); mounted albumen portrait as first frontispiece, 22 wood-engraved plates including second frontispieces, further in-text illustrations, large folding map, tear to inner hinge of title repaired; publisher's original gilt pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering to spines, a bright set, a touched shaken, near-fine; xvii, 316; ix, 318 pp.

Czech p88; Mendelssohn I, 812.

Stock code 122793

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First edition of The Far Interior by Walter Montagu Kerr, a classic of African travel through South Africa to the Zambesi.

The Far Interior:

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