Search Results: AFRICA from THE FAMILY ALBUM

Privately Printed, New Haven: 1954., 1954 72p. + Plus full page photographs. Decorated title page. Gutters beginning to brown. Map endpapers. Printed presentation Season Greetings from the author. Very tall 8vo. Original full brown buckram binding. Spine and front cover paper labels. Top edges damp stained. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/6. Language: eng. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Viking Press, New York: 1937., 1937 325p. Thirty-two illustrations by the author. Tall 8vo. Original full decorated cloth binding. First Edition. A tight copy. Hardbound. Good. NH 1 x2 Language: eng. F.. Hardcover. Good.

John B. Alden, New York: 1884., 1884 215p. + Plus portrait frontis. Slight foxing and age stain. Small 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold decorated and lettered. Rubbed at extremities. Major-General Charles George Gordon (1833 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. However, he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. For these accomplishments, he was given the nickname "Chinese Gordon" and honours from both the Emperor of China and the British. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA 3. Hardcover. Good.

Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, Salunga, PA: 1956., 1956 64p. Illustrated with photographs and a map. 12mo. Original pictorial wraps. Nice copy. Paul N. Kraybill (Editor). Mennonite missionary memoirs. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED. RELIGION BOX 11 x3. 0.0. Soft cover. Very Good.

Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, Salunga, PA: 1956., 1956 32p. Illustrated with photographs and a map. 12mo. Original pictorial wraps. Binding slightly darkened and worn, but still Good. Paul N. Kraybill (Editor). Mennonite Missionary Memoirs. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED RELIGION BOX 11 Language: eng. Soft cover. Good.

Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, et. al.: (1926)., 1926 188p. + Frontis and full page Photographs. Stamped bookplate of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph White and J. Stanley Earhart's stamp. Pages 38 and 39 old newspaper staining. Small 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Front board has a design of tents, trees under a yellow sky. Extremities rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION BOX 11 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

G. P. Putnam, New York: 1862., 1862 522p. + Plus engraved half title, frontis and large folding map. Text woodcuts. XLib. George W. Alexander binder's label. 8vo. Original full brown buckram binding, small loss at top and bottom of spine. Born in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was a popular and influential American poet, literary critic, journalist, translator, and travel author. Very scarce Civil War era edition of this important account of an American's travels in Africa. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/3 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

The Mershon Company, New York: (1883), 1883 391p. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full purple embossed cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Hardbound. Very good. A famous 19th century book. Much of the book is clearly autobiographical, and interestingly, two leading characters, Lyndall and Waldo, are taken to be two sides of the author herself. The story reflects her childhood upbringing and the landscape in South Africa where she worked as a governess on isolated farms during the late 19th century. This, her first book, was hailed as pathbraking by contemporary English feminists. Scarce early American Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/3 Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover.. Very Good.

Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at The Westerham Press, np.: 1961., 1961 pp. xvi, 260. Illustrated with Paul Hogarth crayon drawings and with color lithographs printed by The Curwen Press; designed by Hans Schmoller; printed at The Westerham Press; set in monotype Dante; Hollingworth rag paper. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller on front fly leaf. 7 1/4 x 11 inches. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in full bark cloth from Uganda; title stamped in gold with a design by Mr. Schmoller. Original slip case. Slip case very tight, binding very slightly rubbed. Fifteen hundred copies have been made, of which this is copy number 420 and it is signed by the illustrator, Paul Hogarth. Fine. Fine Books from the Limited Editions Club make great gifts. SHELF W92 Language: eng. Signed by Illustrator(s). Full Cloth. Hardcover.. Fine.

Thomas B. Noonan & Co., Boston: 1884., 1884 299p. Decorated chapter heading and tail designs. Sunday School Prize Book from the Sacred Heart Sunday School, June 14, 1887 given to Nellie Denny from Rev. Jas. J. Fitzmaurice. Small 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, embossed with designs in gold and black, only very slightly worn. Nice example. First Edition? AFRICA/2. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Language: eng. F.. Full Cloth. Hardcover.. Very Good.

(Printed by King and Baird for) J.W. Bradley, Philadelphia: ., 1859 pp. xxiv, (25)-538, (6) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Color folding map of Africa. 14 full page wood-engraved illustrations and many in the text. Mildly age stain. Raised and embossed bookseller's label of Antiquarian Book Store A.S. Hollowell Prop. 108 Erie St. Cleveland, O. Remnants of a Masonic library bookplate on front paste down. 8vo. 195 mm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Corners worn with loss. Spine detached. Hardbound. Good. Title continues: 'With Notes And Extracts From Mr. Richardson's Account Of The Expedition, And A Sketch Of Denham And Clapperton's Expedition, by the American Editor'. Born in Hamburg Germany, Henry Barth was one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa. His scholarly preparation, ability to speak and write Arabic, learning African languages, and character meant that he carefully documented the details of the cultures he visited. He was among the first to… Read More

Printed by Samuel Etheridge for E. and S. Larkin, Charlestown and Boston: 1801., 1801 pp. xxiv, 523. Lacks map. Stamped ownership of Mercantile Library, Boston on title page. XLib. Penciled manuscript criticizing the author. Foxed and age stained. Some papers torn without loss. 8vo. Rebound in orange library buckram. "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travels ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception" - Mendelssohn. South African Bibliography. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/3 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Modern Age Books, New York: ()., 1937 pp. 305, (2)[Publisher's catalogue]. Map. Paper browned but not brittle. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Original dust jacket, stain bottom front cover. Red seal edition. Softbound. Very Good. AFRICA/2 Language: eng. Wraps. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Peter Fenelon Collier & Son, New York: 1901., 1901 208 p. + Eighteen plates in sepia or full color. Numerous photographic illustrations in the text (many of these are full-page). Oblong folio. 435 x 295 mm. Hardcover. Original full cloth binding. Marginal dampstain and minor loss to the last leaves, but no loss of text and the color plates are all Fine. The color illustrations are by: T. de Thulstrup; E. Hering; Max F. Klepper; H. Reuterdahl; A.B. Wenzell; and, probably most importantly, Frederic Remington. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! OVERSIZE 1 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

Tribune Job Printing Co., Salt Lake City : 1893, 1893 283 p. 8vo. 23 cm. Original blue cloth biding, lettered in gold, with a decorative Greek key border in black. Slightly worn at head and tail. The author was a newspaperman and the editor of the Salt L ake City Tribune. His style is a curious blend of the journalistic with the romantic. The scenes move easily between the Comstock Lode, England, and the mines of South Africa. The Comstock Lode was the group of celebrated silver and gold mines near Virginia City, Nevada. Between 1859-1870 it yielded well over 300 million tons of valuable ore. The profits made from the Lode accounted for much of the economic growth of the West in the late 19th century. Wright, American Fiction III (1876-1900), 2206. "The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man" -- Samuel Johnson (1749). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W148 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

American Book Company, New York, et.al.: Ca. 1910., 1910 pp. 81-162. Numerous illustrations and a map. Ruled in black throughout. Sm. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very nice copy. Quite scarce. AMER PRESIDENTS BOX 3 0.0. Soft cover. Very Good.