The Ostrich For the Defence

Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: vii, 324; frontispiece and two more plates from photographs. Bound in pictorial red cloth, stamped in white, black, and gilt. 7.75" x 5". Prior owner's address label on pastedown endpaper. Utopian novel of a lost African race, ruled by a white queen, raising ostriches as a… Read more about this item

Boston: George H. Ellis, 1912. Bound in red cloth stamped in gold, black and white with a handome illustration of an ostrich on the front panel of the book. Three inserted plates. Even though this looks like a non-fiction book -- it is actually an African adventure novel (similar to Tarzan?). 324 pp. Quite scarce in this… Read more about this item

Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Pictorial red cloth stamped in black, white, and gilt attributed to Adrian Iorio. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Spine faded, extremities and stamping worn, corners bumped, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Adventure novel set in Africa.

THE OSTRICH FOR THE DEFENCE, Ellis Press, 1912, first edition, slight wear to the lower corner tips, else a tight vg or better copy in pictorial cloth. INSCRIBED by the author. Scarce thus. Illustrated. An arican lost race novel.

Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co.. Good with no dustjacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Internally very good-. Covers water damaged around the bottom; Political, social tract in novel form about cooperative farming and ostrich raising with world travel photos from author. Bizarre. .

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Wentworth Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x0.