THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY, G.C.B

First Edition Portrait frontispiece, 16 illustrations from photos, color folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover, t.e.g. xviii, 551, 1 page of ads. A fine and bright copy, the text block clean and sound, the plates in good order, the map a bit age-mellowed and with wear at the center and at the edge, closed tear from old poor fold, one of two front blanks is not present.

Edizione: stanley’s classic autobiography. the first nine chapters are from stanley's own pen, though he died before the autobiography was finished. his wife, dorothy stanley, finished the book from his journals and notebooks, and some personal letters he sent to her. "i should like to write out a rough draft, as it were, of my life. the polishing could take care of itself, or you could do it, when the time comes. were i suddenly to be called away, how little, after all, the world would know of me!.but, granted that i know little of my real self, still, i am the best evidence for myself." - from a letter to his wife.