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A first edition of Rosita Forbes' photographic travel journal, From Red Sea to Blue Nile, Abbysinian Adventures, in the scarce dust jacket.
A first edition of Rosita Forbes' photographic travel journal, From Red Sea to Blue Nile, Abbysinian Adventures, in the scarce dust jacket.
A first edition of Rosita Forbes' photographic travel journal, From Red Sea to Blue Nile, Abbysinian Adventures, in the scarce dust jacket.

FORBES, Rosita.

From Red Sea to Blue Nile. Abyssinian adventures.

London, Cassell and Company, 1925.

$275.00
$275.00

From Red Sea to Blue Nile.

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In the scarce dust-jacket.

"Rosita Forbes went everywhere, saw everything... it is not the travels but the traveller who counts." - Robinson. This journey, across Ethiopia, was a journalistic venture. She took with her a cameraman and together they mapped 1100 miles on mule-back in search of photographic material.

First edition; 8vo (24 x 17 cm); numerous black and white photographs throughout, folding map at rear; publisher's original green decorated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lower hinge cracked but firm, original pictorial dust-jacket with minor loss to head and foot, and several short closed tears, price clipped, cloth fine with good dust-jacket; xii, 368 pp.

Robinson pp91-92.

Stock code 125376

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A first edition of Rosita Forbes' photographic travel journal, From Red Sea to Blue Nile, Abbysinian Adventures, in the scarce dust jacket.

From Red Sea to Blue Nile.

$275.00
$275.00

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