"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Oxford University Press, 1968. [African Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 263 [1]. With six black and white plates, and numerous maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to a blue background on spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated with a detail from a painting by Captain W. Allen. Price-clipped; jacket spine sunned, with some rubbing to edges and a couple of closed tears. Very good. Item #55506
Price: £35.00