African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor from Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond by Denis Boyles ISBN 13: 9781555840341

Grove Pr. Used - Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc...

Grove Pr. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

New York, NY: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1988. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. 225 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. . previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. .

Grove Pr, 1988-08. Hardcover. Good.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1988. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Weldenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This is a Attractive Hardback African History work in Near Fine condition with a Near Fine jacket. c1998. 1st edition, 1st printing. This book is in very nice condition, looks lightly read!!! The cover is bright & clean with very nice edges. (One very mild top edge bump, and a little light spine end wear) The pages are tight, bright & unmarked, no names. The jacket, with price, is also VERY bright and clean Very nice edges. Just a little spine end wrinkle. Very light shelf wear. NO Remainder marks. 225 pages.

New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Light edge wear and rubbing, interior is clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1988.

NY: Grove Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1555840345 . 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 225 pages .

Grove Pr, 1988-08-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor shelf wear & foxing to binding, edges of text block & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with small scuffs & foxing. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Top edge very faintly foxed. 1988 Hard Cover. xi, 225 pp. "Offers a series of portraits of the "white tribe" in Africa that demonstrates the great European spirit of adventure in figures past and present, including Blixen, Rhodes, Markham, and Ian Smith.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1988 Weidenfeld & Nicolson. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has pale orange paper-covered boards with navy blue cloth-covered spine and gold spine lettering. Black and white plates. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Shallow dent to the fore edge of the front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. 225 pages. Dust jacket has light edge and surface wear, with some wrinkling at corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

New York. 1988. September 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1555840345. 240 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. Jacket Photograph: Sir Henry Morton Stanley, The Bettmann Archive/BBC Hulton Picture Library. FROM THE PUBLISHER - African Lives offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the ‘white tribe’ In Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that Inexhaustible continent. It presents an Irreverent and original collection of characters, crises, and stories, amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys, missionaries, and knock-abouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years, Denis Boyles, journalist. writer and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats, sketches portraits not only of some of the great personalities from… Read more

Weidenfeld & Nicholson. NF/NF. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 1555840345 . 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 225 p. .

Grove Pr, 1988-08-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Grove Pr, 1988. First Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Weidenfeld & Nicholson., 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AFRICAN LIVES offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the "white tribe" in Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that inexhaustible continent. It presents an irreverent and original collection of characters, crises, and stories, amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys, missionaries, and knockabouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years, Denis Boyles, journalist, writer, and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats, sketches portraits not only of some of the great personalities of the past--Rhodes, Lugard, Markham--but of such colorful, more contemporary figures as Patrick Shaw, a police official in Nairobi;… Read more

Weidenfeld, 1988-08-01. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. Some library markings and scarring.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 225pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light foxing on page edges, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with faint internal foxing.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 1st edition.. 8vo. hardcover. 225pp. + b/w plates. fine. / near fine d/w. .

. Very Good. 1555840345. with dustjacket, bright clean copy, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1988. Hardcover. with dustjacket, bright clean copy, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Professional booksellers since 1981 .