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Richard F. Burton. Scinde or The Unhappy Valley Volume I. , 1851.

Price: US$427.76 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Richard Bentley 1851 2nd edition hardback.Volume 1 only (of two volumes).Original binding as published,blind-embossed with gilt titles to spine.Boards are a little marked and show some bumping to corners and head/foot of spine.Bookplate of C.U.Atkinson to front paste-down otherwise no markings.Top fore-edge a little dusty otherwise clean and bright with just the very occasional fox spot.Binding is firm and sound throughout with no cracking or straining.A Good+ scarce copy in original binding.No cover.

Seller: Wylie Books, Buckfastleigh, United Kingdom

Burton, Richard Francis, 1821-1890. Scinde; or, the Unhappy Valley. Richard Bentley, London, 1851.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 297, 309p. Volume I rebound in 1/2 leather. Volume II original dark green cloth. 20cm. Backstrip on Vol. II missing a narrow strip (about 1.3cm. in length) near top of front joint. Spine slightly sloped. Armorial bookplate in Vol. I (James Albert Garland, Jr.). Mixed set of Burton's uncommon second book written while on active military duty in Colonial India. Mixed set. Vol. I: 2nd ed.; Vol. II: 1st ed.

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

BURTON, RICHARD F.. Scinde; or, The Unhappy Valley. London: Richard Bentley, 1851, 1851.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: 'Second Edition'; two volumes; publisher's cloth; hinges cracking; quarter-inch square chip at the crown of volume one; glass ring on the front board; a very clean and solid set, and very uncommon in original cloth. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard F.. Scinde; or, The Unhappy Valley. 2 Vols. Richard Bentley, London, 1851.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo. viii, 297 (1), vi, 309pp. Rebound in three-quarter blue leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spines; raised bands. Gilt top edges. Marbled endpapers. An account on Pakistan and India, written by Burton while on ative duty. Light wear along edges of binding, spines somewhat sunned. Overall in very good condition.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard F.. Scinde; Or, The Unhappy Valley [Two Volumes]. London Richard Bentley 1851, 1851.

Price: US$2244.57 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st Edition. viii, 297; vi, 309pp. 12 mo. A beautiful example of Zanesdorf binding in full polished calf with five raised bands, black title label, gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Front and back boards bordered on all sides with three gilt lines and corner tools. Crisp, beautiful marbled endpapers; original blank blindstamped covers and gold gilt lettered spine bound in at the back. Half title page present in both volumes. Spine slightly faded. TEG. A very attractive set indeed. near fine Penzer p. 39 lists the book as very rare. With G.R. Nicolaus' engraved bookplate and initialled morocco label 'GRN' to front pastedowns of both. Back free endpapers have stickers from 'The Seven Bookhunters', a New York book search company profiled in the Nov. 8, 1952 issue of the New Yorker.

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada

Burton, Richard F.. SCINDE; OR, THE UNHAPPY VALLEY [TWO VOLUMES]. Richard Bentley, London, 1851.

Price: US$2550.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Very light foxing to first few pages vol. 1; This is Burtons' first book written while on active duty in modern-day India and Pakistan. Rebound in attractive blue full leather boards with gilt spine lettering and three raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Penzer 39, Casada 57 ; 12mo; 297, 309 pages

Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard F.. Scinde; or the Unhappy Valley. Richard Bentley, London, 1851.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Two volumes, finely bound in full polished calf leather by Zanesdorf, with raised bands, boards triple ruled in gilt, gilt-decorated turn-ins, marbled endsheets and top edges gilt. Spines lightly faded. Bookplate and ownership label to front paste downs, and bookseller ticket to recto of rear free endsheets in both volumes. A beautifully bound set of Burton's account of what is present-day India and Pakistan, written while on active duty.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.