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1959TB25170Waterford New York: Self-published 1959. First Edition. First printing Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". Without a dust jacket probably as issued; however the covers are protected by a thick acetate jacket. Laid-in is a mimeographed one page advance ad by the author for this book. Additionally the book is signed by the author on the title page. 28 pages of text including a list of references and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Self-published hardcover books
1959TB22631Waterford New York: Self-published 1959. First Edition. First printing Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. There is a dated "June 1959" gift inscription on the front free end page. The book is in otherwise perfect condition. Without a dust jacket probably as issued; however the covers are protected by a thick acetate jacket. 28 pages of text including a list of references and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Self-published hardcover books
188152660London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons 1881. 12mo pp. 9 10-275 1 10 ads; double-page map 31 full-page wood-engraved illustrations 1 double-page; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; some wear at extremities and a small break in the cloth at the top of the front joint; all else very good. <br/><br/> T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
186052513London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts 1860. First edition likely the second issue; 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; vi 2 468; engraved folding map hand colored in blue and green 12 chromoxylographs 22 woodcuts in the text; 20th century three-quarter green morocco gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 3 t.e.g.; the plates all with a small and discreet stamp in the margin not touching the image and the map with an old paper repair at the folds on the verso; otherwise a fine copy. There were two issues each in a different cloth binding. As the book has been rebound we can't be sure which issue this is except that the map is in volume II in this set which is where it should be in the second issue. Casada 42; Penzer p. 65-67. <br/><br/> Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts hardcover books
1935303London: Edinburgh House Press 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 144 pp illustrations front photographs bibliography index folding map of Africa. Light shelf wear "Colorado Christian Woman's Missionary Society" written on front pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. "An effort has been made to let Africans speak for themselves. They do not all speak with one voice. If through these pages some of their voices sound clearly this small book will not have failed in its purpose" preface. Edinburgh House Press hardcover books
189852544New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell n.d. 1898. First American edition 8vo pp. xxx 3-299 1; 100 photographic illustrations throughout many full-page; original decorative green cloth stamped in black and gilt; lightly rubbed very good. Czech Africa p. 29: "A former English army officer Burrows was hired by the Belgian government as district commander of the Upper Well-Mobanghi region of the Congo." <br/><br/> Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. hardcover books
187352572London: John Murrary for the Royal Geographic Society 1873. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 271 1; large folding frontispiece map without tears and fine; original blue cloth gilt-stamped spine; perforated stamp in title page accession numbers on spine lightly rubbed else very good and sound. Burton's portion of the book ends on p. 164. Penzer p. 89 noting that Burton had also written two appendices which because of their controversial and critical nature were rejected by the R.G.S. "These appendices together with a preface were published privately at Trieste in July of the same year." Casada 85; Mendelssohn I p. 234. Have 2 copies. <br/><br/> John Murrary [for the] Royal Geographic Society hardcover books
19911852Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiv 283 pp folding map illustrations with maps illustrations bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1972 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. 142. Includes documentation of voyages to England the Canary Islands Puerto Rico Tierra Firme and Avellaneda. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series but it other than the title it appears identical to this one. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
190613722New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons and Everett & Co 1906. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes pp xxix 31-291; x 14-288 appendices and index with 64 plates. Original red cloth with beveled edges gilt titles on spine. Spines lightly sunned minor edgewear to boards. Bindings tight and square contents clean. Penzer 311-312 expressing his disdain for the work; Casada 318 writes that "it is important at least in part for the reasons Penzer found so objectionable. It brings to the forefront Burton's shortcomings and opens up avenues of thought which needed and still need examination." This set comes from the personal collection of bibliographer James Casada. G.P. Putnam's Sons [and] Everett & Co hardcover books
1992TB01869New York: Harper Collins Pub 1992. First Edition. First printing Fine In a fine dust jacket. Harper Collins Pub unknown books
1976TB27246New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with shallow "v" shaped narrow chips from the ends of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the panels. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1976TB18560New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing; otherwise the book is in fine condition. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a 1/8" chip at the upper fore corner of the front panel and with two short 1/4" closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area with minor related creasing. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
196821479London: Frank Cass 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint of the 1875 edition. Book is as-new dust jacket is sunned at the spine and price-clipped. Slavery Series No. 3. According to the dust jacket "Cooper's work was aimed at whipping up a state of public opinion which would force the British government into concrete diplomatic action to end Mohammodean and Portuguese slaving in East Africa. Frank Cass hardcover books
196813332London: Frank Cass 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1906 edition. 564 pp indexed bound in red cloth. Light dust soil to top edge else fine. Dust jacket has light soiling at the edges and chipping to the corners and head of spine. Study of the religion and philosophy of the various tribes of the lower Niger including the Efik Ibo and Ibibio. Frank Cass hardcover books
195352562London: Faber & Faber 1953. First edition 8vo pp. xlii 601 1; portrait frontispiece 4 maps 1 folding 36 illustrations on rectos and versos of 9 plates; near fine sound copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spine. <br/><br/> Faber & Faber hardcover books
194552652London: Chatto & Windus 1945. 8vo pp. xxxiii 1 268 2; folding map 2 portraits; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine and a rather chipped dust jacket. Issued as no. 2 in the Central African Archives Oppenheimer Series. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
186513668New York: D. Appleton and Co 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: 179; 198 pp plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece of a hippo bathing in the Nile. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decoration and faded gilt lettering on the spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound text clean with minor foxing. Fictional account founded on real experiences and adventures in South Africa in the early nineteenth century. Mendelssohn I 986. D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
194826521Johannesburg: Rostra Printers n.d. ca. 1948. First Edition. 12mo 17.25cm.; original white printed staplebound card wrappers; 15pp. Extremities sunned textblock uniformly toned and brittle due to poor paperstock tiny loss to lower fore-edge corner of first few leaves and upper wrapper. Still Very Good. Anti-apartheid policy of South Africa's leading political party from 1934 to 1948 when it was supplanted by the National Party. Only a handful of copies located in OCLC; Boston U. only in the United States as of May 2015. Rostra Printers unknown books
189852651London: Methuen & Co 1898. First edition issued in the publisher's Colonial Library series small 8vo pp. vi 238 2; large folding map 4 plates; extra illustration mounted on front pastedown; original maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine extra cloth label 'Africa' also on spine; fine copy. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover books
189011320Philadelphia: Reading and Company 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv 278 pp illustrated with portraits many of Africans maps and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia which took them through Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628. Reading and Company hardcover books
189052548Philadelphia: Reading and Co 1890. First edition 8vo pp. iii-xv 1 278; frontispiece portrait 64 plates 1 in color and 2 maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; slight wear else near fine. The author is described on the title page as the late secretary of the Gabon and Corsico Mission and acting commercial agent for the U.S. "All the scenes and incidents portrayed in this book are true the only fiction consisting in making these the experiences of the Ogowe Band instead of the author. All the descriptions of scenery were copied from diaries written upon the spot and are as accurate as it is possible to make them" preface. <br/><br/> Reading and Co hardcover books
1947TB29393Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1947. First Edition. Near fine in gilt decorated red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping & map end papers. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a 1 inch closed tear at the lower edge of the spine area and with light wear and rubbing across the top edge of the spine area and nicks over the tips of the boards. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. The second volume in The American Trails Series which followed The Wilderness Road. Three volumes were published by Bobbs-Merrill before the series was continued by McGraw-Hill. 331 pages w/ index. Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books
194952589Nairobi: East African Railways and Harbours n.d. 1949. First edition 4to pp. xii 582; 2 folding color maps 14 plates showing 20 portraits and illustrations; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small hole in cloth at top of spine else a very good copy. <br/><br/> East African Railways and Harbours, n.d. hardcover books
1992TB02985New York: Simon & Schuster 1992. First Edition. First printing Fine In a fine dust jacket. Simon & Schuster unknown books
19911859Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. cxxxii 296 pp folding map with illustrations bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1902 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. X. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series but it other than the title it appears identical to this one. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
