AUD 
CAD 
EUR 
HKD 
PLN 
SGD 
CHF 
USD 
+44 01225 448831
sales@rookebooks.com
1914 The Gorilla Hunters
What Our Customers Say...
Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
A new edition.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seven colour plates. Collated complete.
A beautifully illustrated edition of Robert Michael Ballantyne's sequel to his best known work, 'The Coral Island'. This sequel is set six years after 'Coral Island', and is set in Africa, where the characters encounter animal hunters and slave traders. The work is noted for its inclusion of the hunt for gorillas, which was animal that was unknown to the Western World until just before the publication of the novel.
In the publisher's original pictorial cloth.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with rubbing and fading to the spine, slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities, and a slight lean. Offsetting to the free endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription dated 1918. Front hinge tender after the frontispiece. Internally, binding strained in places but otherwise generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright with the odd spot.
Very Good
Delivery & payment
We send all of our books via courier which is a fully tracked and insured service. In our experience we find this to be the most reliable and quickest form of delivery. Our primary courier is DHL, but we are able to accommodate special requests if required, including postal delivery for items under 2kg. See More Details