"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

London: A. & C. Black, 1928. [South American Travel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 88. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the continent. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, re-priced by the publisher with a sticker to 3s. Church choir prize inscription in black ink to front pastedown, dated 1943. Very heavily spotted to edges, with light spotting throughout, and offsetting to endpapers. Jacket heavily sunned and chipped to spine, with lighter rubbing and chipping to edges. Rare with the jacket. Very good. Item #58016
Price: £38.00