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.
Africa/Arabian Peninsula
![Item #2901 Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa [Signed]. John Biggers](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2901.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773783285)
Item 2901Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa [Signed]
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......
Item 1489Bring 'Em Back Alive
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.....
Item 1149Adventures of an African Slaver
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.
Item 1512Talking Drums of Africa
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.
Item 1518Thinking Black
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.....
Item 1246Big Game Shooting on the Equator
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.
![Item #2792 Black Folk: Then and Now [First Edition]. W. E. B. Du Bois](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770834952)
Item 2792Black Folk: Then and Now [First Edition]
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.
Item 1243Then I Saw the Congo
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.
Item 1513Killers All!
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.
![Item #2204 Congo Kitabu [Inscribed]. Jean-Pierre Hallet](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2204.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763068450)
Item 2204Congo Kitabu [Inscribed]
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.
![Item #1514 Pygmy Kitabu [Inscribed]. Jean-Pierre Hallet](https://inkqrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1514.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743096741)
Item 1514Pygmy Kitabu [Inscribed]
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.
Item 1151To the Mysterious Lorian Swamp
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.....
Item 1462The Flame Trees of Thika
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.
Item 1667Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa
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.....
Item 1675Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia
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.....
Item 1662Hunting the Elephant in Africa
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.....
Item 1670Lords of the Atlas
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.....
Item 1674Arabia and the Isles
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.....
Item 1661South from the Red Sea
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.....
Item 1663Among Congo Pygmies
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.
Item 1485Fifty Thousand Miles of Sun
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.
Item 1241Big Game Photographs from The Times
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.
Item 1244After Big Game
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.
Item 1195Through the Heart of Africa
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. .....