Savage Life in the Black Sudan by C.W. Domville-Fife - 1927

London: Seeley Service & Co, 1958. First Edition . Original Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fascinating collection of stories - true stories of the sea ad the deep-sea square riggers that sailed upon the seas during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Original blue cloth with gilt titles, gift inscription on front free end sheet, else clean and tightly bound - very good plus condition. Jacket with some shelf wear and minor repaired tears/wear to the extremities. Please feel free to inquire for item specifics or additional photos. Books will be carefully packaged in cardboard boxes only. Combined shipping can apply for multiple purchases - please check out our other listings. International shipping costs will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Seeley Service & Co. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. heavy, extra postage may be required outside South Africa. boards are worn and a bit water stained. foxing and marks throughout. old tape residue and stamps. text and plates are clear and legible. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1931. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. with illustrations & map. Blue cloth boards. Scuffing, chipping and marks on cover and spine. A small yellow label on inside of front cover. Front inner hinge cracked. Marks on some pages inside. No jacket.

Wide World Magazine, Newnes, London, 1925. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good. 23 pages, illustrated. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: Octavo (25 x 19 cms). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; New Arrivals; Inventory No: 507206. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost..

London: Seeley Service & Co.. 1938. Large octavo, original cloth boards, b&w illus, pp 252. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition in later protective glassine wrap. Anthology of recollections of sailing ships, with photographs. 1st edition. Boards.

London: Seagoer Publishing, 1938 First edition thus. Spring and Summer1938 issues bound in one volume. Hardcover book . Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and ship to front cover. Spring 1938, Vol. 5 No.3, 173pp; Summer 1938 Vo.5 No.4, 172pp. B/w photos and illustrations throughout. Mostly articles on ships and maritime history, incidents at sea. Also articles on Afghanistan, 'The New Germany', Polar exploration etc. V. slight lean to covers.. Gift inscription to flyleaf, 1939. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Domville-Fife, C.W. (editor) Seeley Service 1958. Hardcover, 272 pages. 18 illustrations. An excellent collection of first-hand accounts of life under sail. In very good condition Autobiographies of sail

London: Seeley Service and Co. Ltd., 1938. 1st Edition . Very Good. 7.75 x 10 inches (19.5 x 25.5 cm). First printing. Lacking jacket. Blue buckram binding. Slight fading to spine, a few light marks to boards. Light foxing to page edges. Good solid binding, very clean text throughout. Front free endpaper has been neatly removed. . Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.00; USA £27.60; Oceania £28.90; Rest of World £24.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 7.75 x 10 inches (19.5 x 25.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 252

New York: The International News Company, 1925. Book. Illus. by Wood, Stanley L.; Hiley, F.E. Vedder, S.H.; Brock, R.H.; Eyles, D.C.; De Walton, John; Brock, H.M.; Holmes, Fred; Brightwell, L.R.; Nicholson, W.C.; Goss, G.W.; Crozier, Frank. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The… Read More

London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1925. Book. Illus. by York, W.G.; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.H.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holmes, Fred; Waye, E.S.. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild… Read More

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.

As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.

Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.

187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.

T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.