Author: Miss Betham-Edwards [Matilda Betham-Edwards]
Title: In French-Africa: Scenes and Memories
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1912 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Matilda Betham-Edwards' autobiographical account of her time in Morocco and French-Africa. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further photographic plates. Collated, complete.Widely travelled, Betham-Edwards was awarded a medal at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition.With label residue to back strip and extensive library markings and inscriptions to front pastedown and front free endpaper, but no further library markings.A smart first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with closed tear in cloth to spine head, and sticker residue to spine tail. Minor ink marks to front board. Extensive inscriptions and stamps to front free endpaper and pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pencil marks to frontispiece tissue guard. Spotting to first few leaves, with pages generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: france Franco-British Exhibition Matilda Betham-Edwards Franco-British Exhibition Not Stated


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