International standard book number
000255710X
Shelfmark
Id6.5.20 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id6.5.21 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id6.5.22 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Id6.5.23 (Copy 4)
Author
Title
The Danakil diary : journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34 / Wilfred Thesiger.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Physical description
xvii, 214 p., [26] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Note
Includes glossary and index.
Note
[Copy 1, 2, and 3] Publisher's red cloth binding; author, title, and publisher stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Presentation ms. inscription [not in author's hand]: For College Library, with best wishes for its future, from [Wilfred Thesiger], 17th June 1998.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Signature: Wilfred Thesiger.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Signature: Wilfred Thesiger.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Signature: Wilfred Thesiger, dated 16.5.97.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Given to ECL by Wilfred Thesiger in June 1998.
Provenance
[Copy 2, 3 and 4] Given to Wilfred Thesiger in 1997.
Binding
[Copy 1, 2, and 3] With black and white pictorial dust-jacket.
Binding
[Copy 4] Late 20th-century green leather quarter-binding; red, green, and cream marbled paper boards; author and title stamped in gold on spine; green endpapers; bound with original black and white pictorial dust-jacket inside.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Loose typed caption explaining that 3 copies of the book were given by Sir Wilfred Thesiger in 1997.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Printed edition statement: This First Edition of Danakil Diary is one of 74 numbered copies in a special binding and signed by the author. A further 26 lettered copies were produced in full leather and signed by the author. A further 10 copes in a slipcase were produced for private distribution.
Copy-specific note
ECL Copy 4 is no. 45.
Subject
Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910 - 2003 Diaries.
Subject
Afar (African people)
Subject
Ethiopia Description and travel.
Genre/Form
Diaries.
Genre/Form
Presentation copies.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
HarperCollins publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B43629