Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$199.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thick 4to hardcover volume in green pictorial gold embossed binding. A little wear to spine ends and tips gold embossing in nice condition. End papers have splitting and boards somewhat shaken. No markings in end papers. 736 pages are very clean with no foxing. One plate is loose. 28 plates total 6 maps 4 are folding. Large Africa map is not attached and has a couple fold line separations.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green, pebbled cloth boards illustrated & titled in gilt are a bit wobbly, no cracks; some rubbing at edges, light soil from handling. Maps are all present, clean, map of Tanganika has a small tear. Foxing in the margins throughout, text is clean & highly readable. Protected in mylar.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 736 pages, three quarter leather hardcover. In Good Condition with wear to edges, corners, first map mostly missing, front hinge separated but repairable
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. xxiii 736pp (4pp ad). Bound in brown pebbled boards with gilt design. Six maps, of which four are fold-out maps. "Map of part of Eastern Central Africa Shewing the Routes and Discoveries of Henry M. Stanley" with a few small closed tears. Extensively illustrated throughout with 28 full page illustrations and additional in-text illustrations. First American edition published the same year as the first British.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NEW YORK: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1872, 1st Edition, hardcover, clad in brown pebbled boards, Front board illustrated in gilt depicting a palm tree and scenes from the narrative. The spine depicts a copy of the pictorial frontice of Stanley and a native gun bearer or guide, the title, author's name and publisher all in gilt. The tight and clean text block comprises 736 pp including the index, following which are 8 pp of advertisements. It is illustrated with 28 full page illustrations, 25 smaller illustrations and six maps (all of which are present), which are either tipped in or in page. There is a small cluster of tiny black marks about halfway up the gutter of the front board and there is some foxing on the protective tissue of the frontice, some of which has lightly transferred to the the right edge of title page, else it is in Very Good plus to Near Fine condition. THIS IS A HEAVY ITEM AND MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE, SO POTENTIAL BUYERS SHOULD CONTACT THE SELLER TO DISCUSS THIS.
Seller: Robert Rankin Books, Caledonia, ON, Canada
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Laid in are clipped signatures of both David Livingstone and Henry Stanley. David Livingstone's is SIGNED without inscrition and Stanley's is inscribed "Yours Faithfully" and SIGNED in full "Henry M. Stanley; it is mounted to a heavier grade paper backing. Both are in very good condition with light toning. The gilt stamped pictorial cloth is edge rubbed with spine ends and joints frayed and corners exposed. The gilt is lightly dulled, page edges sporadically spotted. The front hinge is starting, the rear hinge is fine. There are four folding maps present; the second and third are in excellent condition, the "frontis" has two 3/4" closed tears, one at each end close to the gutter attachment and the one facing pg. 474 also has folding tears near the gutter. There is a small matching abrasion on the front pastedown and endpaper. The text is quite clean with only occasional soiling. All in all, a very good copy.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.