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Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapo, 1923-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. Spine,cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages are clean and intact.

Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapo, 1923-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. Cover and edges shows shelf wear and tanning. Pages shows minor tanning.

Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapo, 1923-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages shows minor tanning.

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

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.

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 Company, Indianapolis: (1923)., 1923 503p. + Plus portrait frontis and full page photographs. Inked ownership. Large 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding, gold lettered. AFRICA/2 0.0. Hardcover.

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.

Hobbs-Merrill Company, 1923. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Cover is shelf worn at top and bottom of spine. About 1/4" faded from top of cover. Some darkening of pages. No tears. Binding a little loose at bottom Seller Inventory #294162

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

Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Op. Previous owner's name on fep. Spine faded, scratched. Otherwise vg condition. Pages untrimmed. 503 pp. Illus.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1923). First Edition. First printing Near fine in brick colored cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorative rules on the spine and a facsimile of the author's signature on the front board, with gilt to the top edge of the text block. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. Without its issued dust jacket. 504 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a frontispiece portrait of the author. The autobiography of one of the nineteenth century's best known explorers and adventurers of Africa.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company., 1923. 504pp, index, appendix, bw ills. Or brown cloth lacking jacket. Minor fading to spine, page edges toned. The author spent much of his life exploring Africa and was the author of numerous books on the continent. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine sunned. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Front hinge weakening; Autobiography of lesser-known contemorary of Burton; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 504 pages .

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing . Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 9 1/2" Tall. Plates. 503 Pp. Maroon Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing, 1923. A Detailed, Readable And Enjoyable Memoir Of An Interesting Life As A British Colonial Civil Servant, Etc. Very Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks, Slight Fading To Spine Cloth. Gift Tag Laid In Loosely, To Dr. Archibald Church While At The University Of Chicago.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. Hardcover. very good. Octavo. 9" x 5 1/2". Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 536pp. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923. Presumed FIRST EDITION, first printing (no other printings listed). Full red-brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, damp staining to the margin of the title page and the frontispiece. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in FAIR condition. Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston, GCMG, KCB (12 June 1858 - 31 August 1927), was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the "Scramble for Africa" that occurred at the end of the 19th century. In 1882 he visited southern Angola with the Earl of Mayo, and in the following year met Henry Morton Stanley in the Congo, becoming one of the first Europeans after Stanley to see the river above the Stanley Pool. His developing reputation led the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association to appoint him leader of an 1884 scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. On this expedition he concluded treaties with local… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923 Med.8vo. iv,504pp. 32 plates, biblio., index. Spine slightly dulled, many pages unopened, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's brown 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]