Second Hand Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
Author : Princess Asfa Yilma
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Condition
Original black cloth; spine sunned with light fraying at head/foot; boards show scuffing and a few small marks. Binding sound and square. Pages toned with scattered foxing, chiefly to prelims and margins; all plates present and generally clean. A good, complete example of this scarce pre-ISBN title.
Details
General - Pages : 395 | Images : Includes b&w photographic plates. | Publisher : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. | Place of Publication : London, UK | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 1936 | Edition : First edition | Size : 240mm x 170mm
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An early English-language study of the life and times of Emperor Haile Selassie I, written by Princess Asfa Yilma. This substantial volume traces Ethiopia’s modern history, court and church, relations with Italy and the League of Nations, and the politics of the 1930s, and is illustrated with a suite of black-and-white photographic plates. London: Sampson Low, demy-octavo, c. 300 pages. A valuable primary-period account for African, Ethiopian and imperial history collections.
