The Story of My Life by Sir Harry H. Johnston - 1923

Bobbs Merrill, 1923. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 504 pages. Light wear, a couple stains, pages lightly yellowed, a couple stains; a sound binding; very good otherwise. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 192778. .

Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub, 1923. Blue Cover with a picture of a hunter at the top with the title. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill , 19223. 1st. Very Good/Poor. 504 pages. B&W illustrations. Dust jacket worn, chunk gone from spine. Record # 302340

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1923). ........ Cloth. 8vo., 504 pp., Bumped, slightly yellowed, inside front hinge slightly cracked. .

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., nd (1923). Blue cloth with paper labels front and spine. Spine sunned, extremities rubbed, light cover soil: VG-/no dj. 8vo. Frontispiece of author and black and white illustrations.

Garden City Publishing. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. 0849562678 . B000525; 504 pages; 504 pp hardcover, good contents and covers, no dustjacket .

Indianapolis. Bobbs-Merrill. 1923, 1923. Hardcover. tall thick 8vo, 24cm, 504p., with photo-gravure frontis portrait and numerous plates and illustrations, appendix containing a bibliography of the author works, index, maroon bronwn cloth, gilt spine titles, a very good sound copy (s10.3). The author spent most of his life exploring in Africa and serving as a British official. He wrote many respected books on the subject.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good plus condition: Some page yellowing, spine faded/No Dustjacket. (1923). ........ 8vo., 504 pp. .

Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923. (1923). A few speckles (foxing) on the endpapers. Otherwise clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Inner hinges are sound. No owner's name or bookplate. No printing or edition statement. Photo illustrated throughout. The fascinating autobiography of Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927), British naturalist and African explorer. Among other exploits, this book recounts Johnston's discovery of the Okapi, a creature that looks like a cross between a zebra and a giraffe. It was 1901 when Johnston became the first European to prove the animal's existence. Today they can now be found in zoos around the world, but for centuries Okapi had been the stuff of legend. Johnston credits Philip Gosse for first putting him on the track of the Okapi -- in a volume that discusses the possibility of a large hoofed "unicorn" in Equatorial Central Africa. When Britain annexed in 1891 what was called the Nyassaland territory (now Malawi),… Read More

Bobbs Merrill. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Front hinge cracked. Moderate silverfishing. (Central Africa, Travel)