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Keraban the Inflexible: The Captain of the Guidara.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1884 [1886]. [Ottoman Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 223 [33]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Ink ownerhip and bookplates to the endpapers. Some reading marks within. A used copy with some wear to binding; joints worn, some marks to covers, lettering rubbed, inside paper joints cracked. Possibly a cheaper copy using spare sheets from the first edition of 1884, bound in the covers intended for the 1887 edition. The first volume in a two part tale of a journey around the entire coastline of the Black Sea, featuring two Dutchmen and a legendarily stubborn Turk who decides to take the long way around when he learns of the imposition of a new tax on craft crossing the Bosphorus between the old city of Constantinople and the eastern suburb of Uskudar. Featuring wonderful illustrations of the mosques and monuments of Istanbul, and other well-know locations along the route. Item #68499
Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid, M.A. (1912-2009) writer, film-maker and cinema historian, and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne.
Price: £195.00
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