231 pages, indexed. Third impression. The jacket suffers from major loss along the spine and at the front at the head's outer edge; the flaps have split along the edge. The preliminaries and end papers are foxed, and there's a neat ownership signature on the front end paper. These faults are not pretty, but for the rest, the book is clean, unmarked and solid. Cecil Howard's biography of Mary Kingsley,traveller to Africa and sister of Charles Kingsley's.