London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. Second Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's oatmeal coloured heavy buckram, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 305pp. Cloth browned to spine and toned around the edges, with some additional soiling and a couple of ink splashes to the front board. Strong and sturdy with some fraying and bumping at the spine ends. Slight lean. A very good, solid copy. Internally clean with the bookplate of T.R. Young to the front pastedown (bearing the Pliny quotation "Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi"; "Out of Africa there is always something new"). There is a possibility, given the subject matter and the quotation, that the bookplate is that of T. "Rex" Young, the author of "West African Agent: A British Coaster's Anglo-French Log." Tissue guard to frontispiece portrait, fore-edge untrimmed. A very nicely produced volume, from the war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph who was embedded with H.H. Kitchener's forces, and witnessed most of the major actions of the campaign. Illustrated throughout with plates in text, with a large folding map of the Soudan region to the rear of the book.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 80747
Title: Sirdar and Khalifa, or The Re-Conquest of The Soudan 1898
Author: BURLEIGH, Bennet
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1898
Bookseller catalogs: Africa;

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Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...