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'.....
. 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.....
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.....
Boston/New York: Mariner Books, 1999. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fifth printing. Bottom corner of front cover creased, page edges lightly foxed.
366 pp. In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the.....
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;.....
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: 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....