Buy this book on-line HASTINGS, A.C.G - Intro by Lady Glover: : THE VOYAGE OF THE DAYSPRING: Being the Journal of the late Sir JOHN HAWLEY GLOVER,R.N., G.C.M.G., together with some account of the Expedition up the Niger River in 1857LONDON.JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED,1926. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB, minus dw/dj, 1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn,but red ink,"WITHDRAWN FROM PLYMOUTH LIBRARY SERVICES" rectangular stamp to ffe,dark blue+white MOUNT WISE NAVAL HISTORY LIBRARY - Plymouth Public Libraries bookplate pasted to front pastedown,no dw/dj - as issued? Publisher's original,dark blue cloth bds with two double line blind,impressed border edges to the upper bd,residual,part-oxidised gilt stamped letters to spine/backstrip,along with white tippex library numerical notation (916.69) to foot of same,with inevitable shelf-wear to edges and bumped corners and some slight rubbing to same.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge coloured dark blue,fore-edges lightly aged,blue ink library stamp to bottom edge; contents generally bright,tight and clean.No dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,though the book is lightly cocked.The only further library indications include library stamp+ink notation to recto of title page,and the residue of the removal of library's adhesive bar-code (done in my presence) from rear free endpaper.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn, v-xiiipp+1-230pp [paginated] includes introduction by Lady Elizabeth Glover, contents+illustrations lists/tables,16 chapters,24 separate, contemporary b/w plates/photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half- title,subject portrait b/w illustrated frntis,title page and 2pp publisher's advert to rear.
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