electra dory (8 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Missing. Ex-Library hardcover no dj (green boards) with the usual markings, attachments, and library wear. Except for library markings, interior clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Condición: Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated dust jacket permanently laminated over boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Binding remains firm. binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends.

First edition hardback no dustjacket. Illustrated, 234 + [2] pages. The binding has some light wear and has faded a little, it is sound. Internally it is clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 235pp with b/w photos - olive cloth - endpapers and content edges lightly foxed - slight lean to spine - dustwrapper is moderately rubbed and soiled - wear and chipping to edges with a few small tears - upper edge trimmed slightly - price-clipped - SCARCE FIRST EDITION - life as a missionary in Africa.

235 pages, photographs : her experiences in charge of a mission hospital and leper colony at Likwenu in NYASALAND; hardback vg vg dw south africa malawi malawian disease african leprosy nyasaland south africa leper colony likwenu.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condición: Fair. No Description.

Edizione del 1963 di questo volume sul lebbrosario del Malawi. L'autrice Electra Dory era un infermiera inglese che durante gli anni '30 gestì l'Ospedale missionario in africa Centrale, in particolare il lebbrosario a Likwena, Nyasaland (dal 1964 Malawi). Numerose planches fotografiche in bianco e nero. In ottime condizioni. Copertina in tela editoriale co sovraccoperta in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. Pagine in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. In 8. Dim. 22,5x15 cm. Pp. 234+(2). Edition of 1963 of this volume about leper colony in Malawi. The aquthor Electra Dory was a british nurse that during 1930's ran the Missionary Hospital to Central Africa in particular the leper colony in Likwena, Nyasaland (from 1964 Malawi). Different black and white plates. In very good conditions. Cloth editorial cover with dustjacket in good general conditions lightly worn in the extremities. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in very good conditions with occasional foxings. In 8. Dim. 22,5x15 cm. Pp. 234+(2).

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. [235] + b/w frontis and numerous plates. Grey green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bruised. Author's inscription, in blue pen, to title page: 'With the compliments/ of the author./ (Your wood consumer.)/ M. E. Drew/ Electra Dory'. Faint foxing to title page, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: edgewear and nicking, bald patch to front panel, spotting to reverse. Very Good/ Good+. Unusual signed. A British nurse, the strikingly-named Electra Dory ran the missionary hospital and Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) leper colony at Likwena, Nyasaland (from 1964 Malawi) in the 1930s. Dedicated to Oedipus.