Nyasaland under the Foreign Office. by Duff, H. L - 1906

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint of the 1903 Edition . Hardcover. VG+/No Jacket. xvi, 422 pp. With illustrations, map, index. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine.

New York: Negro Universities Press., 1969. xvi, 422pp, index, appendix, map, bw ills. Or brown cloth, no jacket as issued. One page slightly oversize and projecting from text block at top and bottom, otherwise near new. The Nyasaland Protectorate under the British Foreign Office. Includes several chapters on various aspects of the 'natives' lives, customs and character. Aslo chapter on big game, section on Arab slave traders, chpter on religion/missions and another on northeastern Rhodesia. Originally published in 1903.. Facsimile Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1903., 1903. First British printing. 8vo. Frontispiece with browned tissue guard. xv, 422 pp. Illustrated with 15 plates and fold-out color map rear. Original gilt stamped red cloth binding. Extremities of the darkened spine cloth chipped, hinges cracked but holding, bookplate front pastedown, good.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1903 8vo. xvi,422pp. frontispiece and 15 plates, coloured folding map, appendix, index. Covers slightly stained and spine spotted, map dusty, a nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]

London: George Bell and sons, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition with a new introduction by General Manning. Maroon boards with black drawing and lettering to front and spine. Spine is faded and bumped top and bottom. Inner hinges are beginning to crack front and back endpapers but otherwise binding is tight. Pages are age tanned. Photographs and illustrations by the author.A fascinating account of Central Africa at the turn of the 20thC. Very Good 1906

London: George Bell and Sons. 1st printing (1903). 422pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine and pictorial black panel on front cover. Ink ownership stamp on front pastedown of the Earl of Donoughmore dated 1904, indicating Irish peer and Conservative politician Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore KP PC (1875-1948), styled Viscount Suirdale until 1900. VG copy, binding square and tight, covers bright with some spots of rubbing, endpapers darkened, some light foxing and heavier to tissue-guard . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1903.

George Bell and Sons, London, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 422 pages (complete). A benign, contented book. The boards are worn and scuffed from storage. They are placid and sure. Within, the early and later pages have some foxing. The contents, especially taking their age into account, are clear, confident. The frontispage has a previous owner signature. The pages are tight, youthful and healthy. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

, xxxii, 422 pages, complete with frontispiece, 15 plates and folding map at the rear

London: George Bell and Sons, 1903. First edition, the best of the issues with the deluxe binding and extra illustration. 17 illustrations on 16 full-page plates, 1 coloured folding map. 8vo, publisher’s best binding of original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover. xvi, 422, including index. A fine, bright and very handsome copy. RARE IN THIS BINDING AND PREFERRED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION. The author says in his preface that every word of this book, except for a few connecting paragraphs and explanatory notes necessary for coherence, was written “among the scenes which it treats. It has been my habit to record personal experiences and impressions as nearly as possible at the time of their occurrence...” This quality of the work gives it the immediacy, “freshness and accuracy rarely absent from a narrative compiled on the spot.” He treats the reader to a history of the founding of the… Read More

Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.

Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More

Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.

547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.

LEO MARGULIES, EDITOR. The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction (1954, Merlin Press 1st Ed. w/dj)Please see our stock cover photo. Edited by Leo Margulies and Oscar J. Friend. Used. VG/G- original unclipped $3.95 DJ. 1954, Merlin Press, Inc. 580 pages. ANTHOLOGY.. 10 stories included in this volume are: Enchantress of Venus by Leigh Brackett; Gateway to darkness by Fredric Brown; The girl in the golden atom by Ray Cummings; Forgotten world by Edmond Hamilton; By his bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein; Sword of tomorrow by Henry Kuttner; Things pass by, by Murray Leinster; Rogue Ship by A. E. Van Vogt; Island in the sky by Manly Wade Wellman; The Sun Maker by Jack Williamson.