. Stanley Publishing Co., 1889. Hard Cover.
Binder's copy, boards completely loose from text block. Boards soiled, ink name on second blank.
800 pp. Illustrated with engravings, color plates and maps. In 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David.....
New York: Horizon Press, 1961. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Lacks slipcase. Volume I: Jacket stained along base. Both volumes: Jacket edges rubbed; boards lightly faded.
Two volume set. xxii, 412; vi, 468 pp. Introduction by Alan Moorehead. Includes all 35 of the famed original illustrations. An engrossing record of explorations.....
. Excalibur Books, 1972. Hard Cover.
Jacket corners rubbed. Pencil name and address on front paste-down endpaper, three ticket stubs to Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition stapled to front free endpaper.
236 pp. With 17 color plates and 65 monochrome illustrations and two appendices. "The leader of the excavation offers a......
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Company, 1881. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Ink gift note on front free endpaper, light general wear.
761 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles and decorations. A biographical account of the careers of two famous explorers of the African continent, gleaned from their memoirs and contemporary sources.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Brazelton, Julian. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed with some small chips and small tears to edges, front jacket flap clipped with price in tact. Page ridges foxed.
341 pp. THE author stepped almost directly from the Madison Avenue subway into Rhodesia.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A bit musty, ink name & date partially crossed out on front flyleaf.
v, 374, [2] pp. 8vo. A 19th century overview of Morocco and its citizens, with illustrations throughout text.
Rochester, N.Y. The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias.....
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1954. 8th Printing. Hard Cover.
Eighth printing (2nd of 'cheap edition'). Jacket edges rubbed with multiple chips and tears. Page base stained.
384 pp. Mr. Farson is an expert reporter, and has the faculty for making his stories a salutary bland of personal experience, human interest.....
London: Hollis & Carter, 1950. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Jacket spine head rubbed. Bottom page ridge soiled, top page ridge foxed.
xii, 343 pp. The story of the famed adventurer Charles de Foucauld's journey through Africa. Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld, also called (from 1890) Père (Father) de.....
Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1973. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Jacket edges rubbed. Board edges rubbed, ink note on front free endpaper.
284 pp. From witch-doctors in the Congo to the desert coast of South West Africa; to sharks and killer whales of the South African beachs to the.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1959. Grisha. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket flaps clipped. Top page ridge faintly foxed.
260 pp. Here is an exciting account of the men who discovered and developed the area; of the rise of nationalism and the decline of colonialism; of history, politics.....
New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940. Hard Cover.
Orange cloth spine over boards, not zebra-striped cover. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, ink stamp on title page.
376 pp. 8 5/8 x 6. 83 illustrations, including photographs featuring George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, American author Jack London, and film.....
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Boards soiled, ink gift note on front free endpaper.
345 pp. With illustrations from photographs and a map. CONTENTS: Historical Sketch of East Africa and Uganda; From Naples to Mombasa; The Uganda Railroad; Entebbe; A Holiday.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First U.S. edition. Page ridges toned and foxed. Jacket lightly toned.
xii, 442 pp. "In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old.....
New York: Permanent Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Page ridges foxed, pages lightly toned. Jacket lightly foxed.
ix, 255 pp. "On the adjustment of a Peace Corps worker in northern Senegal." "...the story of a young American woman who finds herself in a desolate scrap of Moslem.....
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Large Hardcover.
Book club edition (no price on jacket). Endpapers lightly foxed.
247 pp. "In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the.....
New York: Pyramid Books, 1958. Mass Market Paperback.
Light general wear, light stain along top edge.
192 pp. A woman's true adventures in the African jungle. Marjorie Michaels, of the exciting TV program, The Michaels in Africa, reveals what it is like to share life with a man who dares.....
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1908. McManus, Blanche. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. A very nice copy.
ix, 442 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Color frontispiece by Blanche McManus. With illustrations from drawings and paintings done by Blanche McManus. A travelogue of Mediterranean Africa.
New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1895. Hard Cover.
Minor staining to edges, spine cocked, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor foxing to pages, minor pencil marginalia. No Jacket - Pictorial Cover.
vii, 338 pp. "This book is written especially for boys, in the hope that Mackay's example may lead.....
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. H. Chamberlaine, L. White, P. Byrne, P. Wogan, Grubier and McAllister, T. Heery, B. Dornin, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1789. First Irish Edition. Hard Cover.
First Irish edition, following the London edition released the same year (Pine-Coffin 784.5). Rebound in quarter linen with new end.....
New York: Carlton Press, Inc., 1987. Hard Cover.
Jacket spine faded, front jacket panel lightly foxed.
143 pp. A history of Kenya post-World War II through the 1950s.
New Albany, Ohio: Countrysport Press, 1995. Langton, Bruce. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Spine lightly faded.
256 pp. These are previously uncollected works of Robert Ruark, edited by Michael Mcintosh. Ruark's tales of African hunting not only explore the animals and their habits, but also why people hunt dangerous.....
South Africa: Struik Publishers, 1997. 8th Printing. Soft Cover.
Eighth printing. Spine faintly toned.
160 pp. "Far-reaching political changes in South Africa have re-ignited much interest in Robben Island, particularly as the South African President, Nelson Mandela, was imprisoned there for so long. This is an informative guide to one.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons / J.J. Little & Co., 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. All three fold-out maps included in rear pockets. Boards rubbed, corners slightly exposed, first gathering of volume 1 loose but included, owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume.
Complete in two hardcover.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Ward, Herbert. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Boards a bit rubbed, 1 inch internal split to spine cloth, small dealer plate on front endpaper.
xvi, 330 pp. 8vo. Includes illustrations from photographs, sculpture, and drawings by the author. Ward participated in the.....