Strange Safari

Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, London and New York, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: H. Johns -- Cover Art and Frontispiece. IV, 5-256 pages, last two pages blank. Colour illustrated frontispiece, by H. Johns. Green coloured boards with red titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Wear to the book edges and there is light staining to the front book panel but significant staining to the backstrip and back book panel. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and to the internal text. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, again by H. Johns, with white and yellow titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping, significant, to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Numerous small tears and chips to the dustwrapper edges with creasing also present. Rubbing to the backstrip edges and fold over creases. Browning and staining to the back dustwrapper panel and rubbing to both the front and rear dustwrapper panel. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. " When Pudge Barton went on safari in Kenya with her friend Beryl and Beryl's father, Commissioner Newton, with whom she was staying for the summer holidays, she little knew what lay ahead. Instead of a peaceful trip, living in the open air, slipping beneath the African moon, and seeing all a wild beauty of the countryside -- a trip that was to be her introduction to Kenya -- she and Beryl found themselves involved in a life-and-death struggle with Kaelabi, a powerful witch-doctor who had once been incarcerated by Commissioner Newton and had sworn vengeance on him and all white people." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: H. Johns -- Cover Art and Frontispiece. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Fiction -- Vintage; Africa; fiction -- adolescent; Inventory No: 0108990. .