Africa Wildlife

Hardcover. New York , Syndicate Publishing Company, Reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 583 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout. Syndicate reprint with 8 color plates. Illustrated cover in 3-colors and gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Foxing to end papers, else a clean, tight copy. With more than 200 illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Phili R. Goodwin. Appears to be the first printing thus after first being published by Charles Scribners.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 337 pages. Ibamba is the name of 13 square miles of glorious lion country in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), and also the African adventure of a young American couple who lived there for four years taming the land and its wild inhabitants as ranchers and zoologists.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with red lettering, 298 pages. Illustrated with 88 b&w photos. A famous naturalist tells of his adventures in central Africa, accompanied by his photographs. Name and address on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Color and b&w photos. A memoir by the wife of Toni Harthoorn, one of the best-known vets and animal scientists in Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1955, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 288 pages, color frontis, 23 color plates, 26 black and white plates, from photos by the author, map, index. Based on the author's extensive travels, over 17,000 miles during a year in eastern and south-east Africa, where he travelled with his wife and three children, from Cape Town, Basutoland, Swaziland, through the Congo to Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika (Tanzania), Nyasaland, Zambesi, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), etc, with much on the wildlife, peoples, conditions.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded gilt lettering, 281 pages, illustrated with 63 full page photographs by the author and clean fold-out map at rear of book. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Inscription o first blank page, otherwise clean. Bump to cover fore-edge.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with faded gilt lettering. 245 pages, b&w illustrations. Czech writer, Hans Coudenhove writes of a long stay in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and describes the African people, mongooses, monkeys, lions, ants, kites, ravens and snakes. So immersed in African culture is author Coudenhove that he had not slept in a bed, dined with a human, or seen any entertainment in decades of living there. Quoth he: I have not been in a theatre for twenty-eight years.and I have never seen any of the modern dances--'jazz' I think they are called. So this perspective might be considered unsullied by any 'modern' thinking, and it is pure African to the core--a unique perspective on the fauna of the continent Ex-lib with marking and residue to endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton , 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrations with black & white drawings by Bob Kuhn, 221 pages. Myles Turner, born in London in 1921, spent most of his life in Africa. After serving in World War Two, he worked with various companies leading tours through the African Wild. A avid consevationist, Turner began working for the Serengeti in 1956. This book is the memoirs of this time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of words and images chronicle the life and habits of animals in the African wild, presenting essays on animal endangerment and drawings, paintings, and sculptures. 71 plates, 23 in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. A description of that gentle beast, the upland gorilla, and of the African terrain and people. Mr. Schaller has written an informal and exciting story of his two years of travel and observation in East and Central Africa. No markings.