13 ‘AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT OF HIS AFRICAN-RELATED STUDIES’ 46. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. London: John Childs and Son for Tinsley Brothers, 1872. £3,500
8vo, 2 volumes. Modern period-style straight-grained green calf over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, another with gilt morocco lettering-piece, the others decorated in blind; pp. I: [2 (blank l.)], xii, [2 (section-title, verso blank)], 503, [1 (imprint)]; II: vi, [2 (section-title, verso blank)], 519, [1 (imprint)]; wood-engraved frontispieces in both volumes, 9 wood-engraved plates, one folding lithographic map by E. Weller, hand-coloured in outline, 4 lithographic maps, retaining both half-titles, preliminary blank in volume I; extremities very lightly rubbed, some light browning, occasional marginal chipping or short tears, folding map with skilfully-repaired tear, otherwise a very good set.
First edition. In the opinion of Burton’s bibliographer James A. Casada, Zanzibar is ‘among the most important of [Burton’s] African-related studies’. The book is based upon notes taken during a stay on the island in 1856-1857 prior to Burton and Speke’s expedition to discover the source of the Nile. These notes, posted to the RGS, were not delivered for eight years, and were presumed to have been lost. By the time they again reached Burton’s hand the Nile expedition had returned, Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria had been discovered, and Speke was dead. The delayed publication of Zanzibar therefore gave Burton an opportunity to look back at subsequent events: the final chapters describe the ‘East African Expedition of 1857-1859’ and the concluding chapter, ‘Captain Speke’, offers Burton’s last word on his fellow explorer.
Penzer pp. 88-9 (noting two issues, determined by the original cloth binding); Casada 72.
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47. CAM [Barbara Mary CAMPBELL] (author and illustrator). Barbara Lamb. London; John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited. 1944.
£498
Royal 8vo. Original glazed pictorial paper-covered boards, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [32]; strikingly illustrated with pictorial title and full-bleed coloured plates on every page with text in calligraphic font; a fine and exceptional copy of a very scarce book; externally and internally bright and unused; the very elusive, price-clipped, dustwrapper with a little light toning and browning to flaps, faint speckling confined to the reverse, tiny nicks to corners, one small narrow chip to head of spine (18mm x 12mm), one short closed tear to top edge of upper panel (20mm), and a slightly larger area of triangular-shaped loss to bottom edge of the same (55mm x 33mm).
First edition of Cam’s first book.
48. CAM [Barbara Mary CAMPBELL] (illustrator). [An original pen-and-ink and watercolour illustration for Barbara Lamb]. 1944.
£1,650
An original pen, ink and watercolour illustration (190mm x 260mm) depicting Barbara Lamb, in rolling pasture with birds and a rabbit, being startled by the sudden appearance of the Golden Ram, with the onlaid, irregularly shaped text panel with the original calligraphic script highlighted in colour; the image double-mounted behind a pale blue and cream matt; in excellent condition with just a little light dusting and a couple of small, and insignificant, speckles.
This image was used on page 8 of the published book (John Lane, The Bodley Head 1944).
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49. CAPOTE, Truman. The Muses are Heard. New York. Random House. 1956.
£198
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A little nicking to wrapper edges otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. With a non-authorial presentation inscription to the film director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes on front paste down, “Hope this makes you feel better Bryan, (?)Tom Baker”. Capote’s account of his trip to Leningrad with an American troupe performing Porgy and Bess, the first performance in the USSR of an American Opera.
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