SIGNED!! `THE SOURCE OF THE BLUE NILE` BY AJ HAYES, FIRST EDITION, 1905

SIGNED!! "THE SOURCE OF THE BLUE NILE" BY AJ HAYES, FIRST EDITION, 1905, 315 PAGES, PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER AND CO. LONDON, HARDCOVER, NO DUSTJACKET AS ISSUED, IN GOOD CONDITION CONSIDERING ITS AGE.

THE SOURCE OF THE BLUE NILE - A record of a Journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in Western Abyssinia and of the return to Egypt by the Valley of the Atbara by ARTHUR J. HAYES and an Entomological Appendix by E. B. POULTON with 32 illustrations and 2 folding maps. Publisher's insert slip stating bookseller's terms.

Description: Edwardian travel writing by the author, a British physician working in Egypt, who recounts his voyage through Abyssinia during 1902-3. Green cloth binding with blindstamped gilt medallion and lettering on the cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Signed inscription on free endpaper by the author "To Sir Horace Pinching, K.C.M.G. with the author's compliments. A.J. Hayes, January 1906".  Interestingly, the recipient of the book, Sir Horace Pinching, was the Surgeon-General of the UK until his retirement to Switzerland in 1908, some 2 years after the book was signed in 1906. He later died there in 1935.