The Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn, an Old Visiter Volume I: The Ivory Coast in the Earlies by Lewis, Ethelreda; Horn, Alfred Aloysius - 1927

Simon & Schuster, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

CollectibleGood. Good condition. No dust jacket. Hardcover; light wear but not torn; gold and orange letters and design on green cover; no marks or tears in text.

Grosset & Dunlap Movie tie-in edition in Good condition with a Fair unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. Illustrations from the MGM movie. Previous owner bookplate on inside front cover.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Hardcover.

Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. B0098B6XXU 10th printing 1927 Simon and Schuster hardcover. Very Good. Frontspiece tissue torn laterally and mended with ph-neutral paper tape. No dust jacket. . Very Good.

Garden City Publishing, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1928. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First edition / 1st Printing Used. H Hard Cover. Good. Good, no dust jacket, corners slightly bumped, minor wear at top & bottom of spine, front lower right corner is slightly discolored from water. 1st edition / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 256pp. 14 x 20.

30 Bedford Square, London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hard Cover. Seventh Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. The works written by himself at the age of 73, and the life, with such of his Philosophy as is the gift of Age and Experience taken down and here edited by Ethelreda Lewis. The forward written by John Galsworthy. Book 1: The Ivory Coast in the Earlies: the narrative of a boy trader's adventures in the 1870's, through which runs the strange thread that is History-meagre, but all that is available-of a young English Gentlewoman. Trader Horn died of Pnuemonia, in London, on June 24, 1931, aged 82 years. Forward written by John Galsworthy Good/No dust jacket, marbled pink & brown cloth w/moderate wear to edges & corners, fading to edging, owner's name on front endpaper, obituary info. written on pastedown, off-setting to frontendpaper, half-title, frontispiece etching of Mr. Horn by Noel Wallace, illustrated, Addendum, 321pp, contents very clean &… Read More

Hardcover: 302 pages. Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.; First Edition, Fourth Printing. 1927. Tissue guard is still present on frontspiece illustration. Nice bookplate of a ship is glued on FFEP endpaper but only at the tip. Good book in about good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some old tape around edges. One dealer says, "[publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster, MCMXXVII.] Hardcover Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), tissue-protected frontis., map illus. endpapers, viii + 302 pp. Very Good, with former-owner bookplate and lightly rubbed edges. From Foreword: This is a gorgeous book, more full of sheer stingo than any you are likely to come across in a day's march among the bookshops of wherever you may be. These untutored memories of youth adventuring long ago in a wild place, recorded with an untutored pen in a Johannesburg dosshouse, are like the gold ore of that so-called golden City, as Alfred Aloysius Horn would call it, except indeed that the proportion of gold in them… Read More

London: Butler & Tanner, 1927. 1st edition, 320 pp., hardbound, slightly worn at top and bottom of spine, previous ownership markings on front free end paper, text clean bright & tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Book. Very Good+ (Book Condition). Hardcover. Later Printing. A very nice copy. Sunning to spine. Text clean, binding strong. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair].