Author: Fan C. Dunckley
Title: Eight Years in Abyssinia
Description: London, Hutchinson, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Fan C. Dunckley's account of eight years spent living in Addis Ababa, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs. Fan C. Dunckley's  offers a narrative of eight years spent living in the Ethiopia capital as the wife of a correspondent for Reuters.She discusses the domestic conditions of the country, slave trafficking, every day life, transport, commerce and a visit from the Duke of Gloucester.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight double sided photographic plates. Collated, complete.With the bookplate of Anglo-Swiss financier Clinton E. Geiser to the verso of the front free endpaper.With twenty-four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discolouration to back strip and board perimeters. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot, and light tide marks to the head of a small number of pages towards the centre of the work. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: ethiopia abyssinia Fan C. Dunckley abyssinia Not Stated


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