The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley... edited

by his wife, Dorothy Stanley by Sir Henry Morton Stanley

$4,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Signed

Publisher's green crushed morocco gilt, upper cover with gilt device of Africa and lettered Bula-Matari, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Green cloth box, with morocco label titled in gilt. Deluxe issue. Number 9 of 250 copies signed by Dorothy Stanley in a fine publisher's morocco binding. Henry Morton Stanley was born in 1841 in Wales illegitimately as John Rowlands, abandoned as an infant by his mother, passed around to various relatives and

• Binding: Leather

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