Item 1192Jungle Portraits
Delia J. Akeley. Jungle Portraits. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First edition. Octavo. 251pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt.
Delia J. Akeley. Jungle Portraits. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First edition. Octavo. 251pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt.
John Biggers. Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962. First edition. Signed by John Biggers. Quarto. 119pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black, black top-stain, endleaves in black, original unclipped dust jacket. From The Dr. Joseph A......
Frank Buck with Edward Anthony. Bring 'Em Back Alive. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. First edition.Octavo. 291pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's black pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, red top-stain, map illustrated endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $3.50. From the collection of.....
Canot, Captain Theodore. Miguel Covarrubias, illustrator. Adventures of an African Slaver. London: Routledge, 1928. First edition. Octavo. 376pp. Illustrated. Publisher's black quarter cloth over yellow cloth boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt.
John F. Carrington. Talking Drums of Africa. London: The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1949. First edition. Octavo. 96pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket.From the collection of noted Hollywood animal trainer Hubert G. Wells.
D. Crawford. Thinking Black: 22 Years Without a Break in the Long Grass of Central Africa. London: Morgan and Scott Ld., 1912. First edition. Octavo. 485pp; 18pp index; 18pp catalogue. Illustrated with b/w photo plates. Publisher's black pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, map endleaves, mounted color frontispiece.From the.....
Captain F. A. Dickinson. Sir Charles Norton Eliot, introduction. Big Game Shooting on the Equator. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1908. First edition. Octavo. 285pp. Illustrated. Publisher’s green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, deckled edges.
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Black Folk: Then and Now. New York: Henry Holt Company, 1939. First edition. Octavo. 401pp (indexed). Maps. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.
Grace Flandrau. Then I Saw the Congo. London: George G. Harrap & Company, Ltd., 1929. First edition. Octavo. 288pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s gray pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt.
Commander Attilio Gatti. Killers All! New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943. First edition. Octavo. 245pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in black, illustrated endleaves, original dust jacket. From the collection of noted Hollywood animal trainer Hubert G. Wells.
Jean-Pierre Halllet. Congo Kitabu. New York: Random House, 1966. Fifth printing. Inscribed by the author. Octavo. 436pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in red and yellow, orange topstain, deckled edges, mapped endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket.
Jean-Pierre Hallet. Pygmy Kitabu. New York: Random House: 1973. Second edition. Inscribed by Jean-Pierre Hallet. 434pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos by the author. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decorated in silver, orange top-stain, map endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket.From the collection of noted Hollywood animal trainer Hubert G. Wells.
Haywood, Captain C. Wightwick. To the Mysterious Lorian Swamp. An Adventurous & Arduous Journey of Exploration through the Vast Waterless Tracts of Unknown Jubaland. London: Seeley, 1927. First edition. Octavo. 275pp (indexed) + 12pp ads. Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt.From the Africana collection.....
Elspeth Huxley. The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood. London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. First edition. Octavo. 288pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $16s net. From the collection of Robin and Kathryn Smiley.
Arthur H. Neumann. Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Octavo. 455pp (indexed) + 8pp ads. Illustrated. Publisher’s red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, zebra patterned endleaves. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark.....
Bertram Thomas. T. E. Lawrence, foreword. Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia. London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. Early reprint edition. Octavo. [397]pp (indexed). Illustrated with maps, charts and diagrams. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rear cover in blind, brown top-stain. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at.....
Captain C. H. Stigand. Hunting the Elephant in Africa. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1913. First edition. Octavo. 379pp (indexed) + 4pp ads. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book.....
Gavin Maxwell. Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893 - 1956. London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. Bohn's Standard Library edition. Octavo. 318pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, spine lettered in orange, front cover in blind, illustrated endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket.From the.....
Harold Ingrams. Arabia and the Isles. London: John Murray, 1952. Second edition, enlarged. Octavo. 399pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher’s beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of 25s net.From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark.....
Haroun Tarieff. South from the Red Sea. London: Lutterworth Press, 1956. Second impression. Octavo. 213pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of 18s Net. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal.....
Paul Schebesta. Among Congo Pygmies. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo. 287pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate.
R. Scotland Liddell. Fifty Thousand Miles of Sun. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd. First edition. Octavo. [284]pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos by the author. Publisher's beige pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and decorated in brown, original unclipped dust jacket. From the Afircana collection of Hubert G. Wells.
Maxwell Marcuswell, photographer. Big Game Photographs from The Times. London: The Times, [1929]. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight full page photographs taken in Kenya and Tanganyika. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt.
R. S. & M. E. Meikle. After Big Game: The Story of an African Holiday. London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., [1915]. First edition. Octavo. 327pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s olive-green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt.
Melland, Frank H. and Cholmeley, Edward H. Through the Heart of Africa. London: Constable & Company, LTD, 1912. First edition. Octavo. 305pp + 1p ad. Illustrated with b/w photos, folding map. Publisher’s terra-cotta pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, deckled edges. .....