Lot Details
Lot 357
SWAYNE, FRANCES A Woman's Pleasure Trip in Somaliland.
Bristol: John Wright & Co. and London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1907. First edition, inscribed by the author. Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt. 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; xii, 172 pp.; frontispiece map, plates after photographs, half-title. Spine a bit rubbed with minor wear to tips, inscribed to half-title, overall a lovely copy.
Swayne, the daughter of a prominent physician, visited her cousin Col. Harald George Carless Swayne in Somaliland where he served in the British military. She states in the Preface that her aim is to promote the Protectorate as a "holiday resort," and that this book was intended to be a "slight, unpretentious account of how a woman could pleasantly spend three winter months in a country where many of the fancied necessaries of a civilized life are absent." This copy is inscribed to the French writer and critic Saint-René Taillandier. Uncommon; we trace only one copy in the auction record and one institutional copy listed in WorldCat. Bibliographia Aethiopica II:1809; Theakstone, p. 261.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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