London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1929. Small Hard Cover.
No jacket. General wear.
159 pp. With many illustrations and map. CONTENTS: Morocco: Its Scenery, Cities and History; The People of Morocco; Tangier the Cosmopolitan; Fasts, Festivals and Other Occasions; In the Riff Country; Three Ancient Towns; A Famous Pirates'.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Scratch on rear panel of jacket. Top edge faintly foxed.
401 pp. "A portrait of one of the Victorian Age's most renowned English explorers and one-time Confederate soldier, remembered for locating David Livingstone, charting the Congo river, and campaigning.....
. 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.....
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: 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.....
New York: The Panurge Press, 1920. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, numbered 677 of 2010 copies. No publisher date (circa 1920s). No jacket. Rear joint starting, ink stamp on front and rear paste-down endpapers.
258 pp. A graphic and exciting picture of the Algerian desert, its tribes and their.....
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.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink stamp on front free endpaper verso and on dedication page.
xxiv, 233 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword by Clark Wissler; Introduction by Blair Niles; Preface; The Black Rebellion; Upriver; The Jungle Clearing; The Dance; The Game Trail;.....
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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. No jacket. Front free endpaper clipped.
160 pp. Red cloth boards with black titles. Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River.....
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.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Review laid in. Owner sticker on front endpaper.
vii, 277 pp. 8vo. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal in 1995. Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of fifty-two days in the fall of 1991.....
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: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Volume 2 of 2 only. Includes fold-out map in rear pocket. Spine slightly toned, minor wear to corners. Binding tight, pages clean and bright.
x, 483, [1], 12 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles, gilt, silver, red.....
Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1971. Stedman, Captain J.G. Large Hardcover.
Near fine large hardcovers in a near fine publisher slipcase.
Two volume set with publisher slipcase. Includes 80 engravings, including several maps and fold-outs. John Gabriel Stedman (1744 – 7 March 1797) was a Dutch-born Scottish soldier who wrote The.....
Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Small tear to jacket spine base, light general wear.
472 pp. Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Traveling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through.....
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.....