New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Series: Themes in European Expansion: Exploration, Colonization, and the Impact of Empire. 474 pp, indexed. Lists 3089 items. The first attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of English and foreign-language pamphlets and books pertaining to British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika..... Item #13712
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, with frontis portrait, 19 illustrations and 2 maps (1 folding). Green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Spine cocked, brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good. Good served as a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa..... Item #13079
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972. No Binding. Fine. xxiii, 211 pp, with index, bibliography, maps. One corner bumped, else fine. No dust jacket. Item #13238
Boston: Beacon Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Second edition, enlarged. 214 pp. Clean and tight, with minimal wear to the boards. Dust jacket is edgeworn, chipped at the corners, and has a one inch section missing from the head of the spine. Biography of the..... Item #13676
Philadelphia: Reading and Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv, 278 pp, illustrated with portraits (many of Africans), maps, and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped, spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose..... Item #11320
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 298 pp, with 25 photographic illustrations and a folding map. Original blue cloth, sunned at the spine. Binding sound, text unmarked. No dust jacket. Account of the author's travels in West Africa, with detailed and colorful (if not always enthusiastic)..... Item #13666
New York: Fleming R. Revell Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, but Preface dated 1929. 208 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, frontispiece. "This is just a story! It is not a history, or a survey! It is the 'Log of the Lingua,' the Bible Society's motor that tours East and Central..... Item #183
Gregg Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes in one, reprints of the 1923 and 1924 Cambridge editions. 176; 205 pp, with folding maps and illustrations; both volumes indexed. Light dust soil to fore edge, else a fine copy in the original green cloth. No dust jacket. Item #13443
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard Univeristy Press and Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 351 pp, with bibliography, index, information about authors, illustrations, maps. Upper corners are bumped; light soiling to top edge; else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, with..... Item #52
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 133 pp + ads, with a gruesome frontis photograph of natives being hanged as spies. Original green cloth with decoration in gilt. Slight rubbing to corners, gift inscription on front free endpaper, mild foxing. A fictional account of the occupation..... Item #12358
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 286 pp, plus one-page glossary of terms used in the "Mahogany" district of West Africa. Corners very slightly bumped, else a fine copy in a clean, priced dust jacket with a few small chips..... Item #13441
Andover: Warren F. Draper, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet, 24 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Author's name and an old ink stamp on the front wrapper, else clean, with a mild vertical crease and light handling wear. Very good. Shedd (1820-1894) was a distinguished Presbyterian theologian and enthusiastic..... Item #17948
East London, South Africa: East London Municipality and the South African Railways and Harbours, 1927. Softcover. Very Good. 5.25 x 8.25 in., 53 pp, with b/w illustrations from photograph, maps, in original illustrated wrappers. Light handling wear, slight dampstain visible on upper spine of wrappers only; very good. Promotes East..... Item #2796
New York: Katanga Press, 1916. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. 311 pp, illustrated with b/w plates. Ex-library, with stamps and bookplates on the endpapers, stamps on top and bottom edge. Old tape repair to title page, otherwise sound, with no markings in the text and minimal wear to boards. Introduction by..... Item #13338
New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. xvii, 551 pp + 16 (Illustrations) + folding map, with frontispiece, index. Top front corner lightly bumped; else fine. No dust jacket. Stanley worked on the Autobiography for many years, but died before it was completed. According to the DNB, "Stanley's..... Item #957
London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd., 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. xxiv, 221 pp + [91] (illustrations), with appendix, itinerary, maps (one folding), index. Boards are lightly rubbed and scuffed; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. "The 1934-35 British Museum Expedition to East Africa was organized for the purprose of..... Item #133
New York; London: Fleming H. Revell Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, likely first American edition, c. 1929. xix, 609 pp + [25] (illustrations), with index, b/w illustrations from photographs. Author photograph tipped in as frontispiece. Foreword by "Dr. Laws of Livingstonia." Ex-library copy with normal markings, stamps, etc, including call number..... Item #55
London: Methuen & Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvii, 319 pp, illustrations, 4 maps (two folding). Introduction by George T. Goldie. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of soldiers on front board. Former mercantile library copy, with bookplate on front pastedown and..... Item #11853
Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1921. Soft cover. Very Good. 201 pp, with illustrations and map, in original printed wrappers. Spine is sunned and has one chip in the paper at the head of the spine. Binding solid, text unmarked. McCutchan was sent as a missionary to the Congo..... Item #13243
London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii, 623 pp, with 12 maps (2 colored), select bibliography, index. Very light general wear to boards, some offsetting and previous owner's label on endpapers, contents clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on Dutch occupation, colonization, Parliament and..... Item #1268
London: Paternoster Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Uniform edition, Number 4 in the Jungle Doctor series. 121 pp, with 30 illustrations by Harry Swain. Edges of text block dust soiled, otherwise minimal wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped, chipped at the corners. Item #13169
London: Frank Cass and Co., Ltd, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Second edition, a reprint of the 1877 edition with a new introduction by A.G. Hopkins. xxii, 355 pp. Boards are bumped at the corners and slightly sunned at the edges, top edge is dust..... Item #13023
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 285 pp, with index and folding map. Light wear to boards, tight binding, unmarked. No dust jacket. A study of the role of the Gold Coast Legislature in the political life of the colony, based on printed sources available..... Item #13239
New York: Whittlesey House, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xv, 320 pp, with color frontispiece, index, illustrations (from photos and drawings by the author), maps (one folding). Short tear in cloth along rear joint at head of spine, paper cracked over front hinge, occasional penciled lines in the margine;..... Item #181
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Good+ dust jacket. 351 pp + illustrations from photographs, map endpapers. Very light shelf wear to boards, gift nscription on dedication page; text clean, binding sound. Dust jacket is rubbed along the folds, has tape reinforcement to inside..... Item #2585
