Search Results: Authors starting with M from Springbok Books

Original cloth. Some splitting outer hinges, and spine ends. A very rare first edition. See the photos, which provide the best information about condition.

First edition. Two Volumes: Frontispiece portrait of the author in volume 1 (an actual sepia photograph is mounted), engraved frontispiece in volume 2, numerous illustrations on plates as well as in-text, folding map at the end of volume 2 with the author's route indicated in red.
The images I have provided demonstrate the condition of these volumes, which have signs of use and wear and age to the original decorative publisher's cloth binding. Black-coated endsheets are cracking at top of front inner hinges. Some foxing in early and late pages. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for more details or images.
NO OTHER COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING FOR SALE ANYWHERE ELSE AT THE TIME OF LISTING
Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, pages 812/3, 'Mr. Kerr remarks that he did not carry out "an expedition in the accepted meaning of that term," observing, "My journey was under- taken alone ; I was unaided, and had no companionship of white men, neither had I a corps of regularly… Read More

Facsimiles of the Richard Bentley, London, 1835 First Edition: 2 volumes: bound in navy blue, marbled end papers. A handsome set, as-new and unread, well-made and ready for your reading pleasure and collection.
******** The original first editions are extremely rare, and as of this listing, I could not find any sets available for sale anywhere. ********
Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 3, page 626: Moodie arrived in South Africa to join his brother Benjamin who was farming at Grootvadersbosch near Swellendam. In 1821 he obtained land at Sir Rufane Donkin's abortive Fredericksburg settlement but the following May found himself to be almost the last person left there. It was a plan of which Lord Charles Somerset had thoroughly disapproved and with Moodie's departure the scheme came to an end. He went to join Benjamin on Long Hope, the latter's new property on the west bank of the Lower Bushman River. In 1828 he tired of farming and set out on a long journey through Kaffraria before settling… Read More

Here is a very uncommon first edition from 1874. MY KALULU, PRINCE, KING AND SLAVE: A Story of Central Africa by Henry Morton Stanley You won't find a nicer copy for sale anywhere else. On Henry Stanley's journey to find David Livingstone, Stanley was given a young black boy, whom Stanley renamed Kalulu, which is Swahili for "rabbit." After Stanley found Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"), Stanley took Kalulu with him to England and spent 6 weeks writing HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE (1872), which was very popular with the public, which was enamored with Livingstone and Livingstone's trials and tribulations. MY KALULU was Stanley's first work of fiction. It was written for Boys. Stanley went on to become even more famous as an explorer in Africa. In 1874, the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa. His ambitious objective was to complete the exploration and mapping of the Central African Great Lakes and rivers, in the process circumnavigating Lakes… Read More

An unusually nice set, internally near pristine. Lack of foxing is very rare for the London editions.
This may be the nicest set of these books anywhere!
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, [1], 522; ix, 566 pp., 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps including 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear, 33 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text, original brown pictorial cloth.
The story of the Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa, commanded by Stanley and undertaken between 1874 and 1877. The discovery of the course of the Congo, though the greatest, was but one of the many geographical problems solved during this memorable expedition. Vast in size, "the procession that departed from Bagamoyo (Tanzania) on 17 November 1874 stretched for more than half a mile and included dozens of men carrying sections of the Lady Alice, the boat named for his seventeen-year-old fiancée, with which Stanley intended to explore Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and Livingstone's Lualaba River. During the next two… Read More