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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 236 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.70 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 8.60x5.70x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnOriginally published in 1921, this interesting book contains pages from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland, offering a fascinating and unique insight into the area during the British occupation. Many of.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnOriginally published in 1921, this interesting book contains pages from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland, offering a fascinating and unique insight into the area during the British occupation. Many of.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Hiley, F.E. Vedder, S.H.; Brock, R.H.; Eyles, D.C.; De Walton, John; Brock, H.M.; Holmes, Fred; Brightwell, L.R.; Nicholson, W.C.; Goss, G.W.; Crozier, Frank (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Robinson, T.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Goss, G.W.; Inns, Kenneth; Perinni; Tresilian, S.; Holloway, Cyril; Peddie, T.H. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Man Who Was Buried Alive - Part I - The Amazing Adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert"; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part VI (conclusion) - John Gibbons wraps up his amusing walking tour of Southern Italy; A Himalayan Marriage Market - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a quaint annual fair where all eligible girls of the district assemble to be inspected by young men with a view to marriage; Filming in the Wilds - Part III of Major C. Lestock Reid's account of his major adventures attempting to film an adventure story in the Far East, this time in Indo-China - with two photos of Angkor Wat; A Deal in Diamonds - Dr. T. Hilding Svartengren was nearly swindled out of a fortune in Paris; The Town of Ghosts - Walter F. King discovers a deserted mining camp in the High Sierras which was abandoned in haste; Wreck-Hunting - For fifty years Herbert J. Gibson of Penzance, Cornwall, has built a photographic record of the ships driven onto the local rock-bound coasts - article with many dramatic photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part I - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Ship of Mystery - The strange last voyage of a vessel to Manila where a soldier of fortune hoped to profit by the ship's cargo; Premonition - Can a man prevent his death after he has had a premonition of it?; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. York, W.G.; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.H.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holmes, Fred; Waye, E.S. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Illustrated throughout, this is the very scarce first edition of Major H. Rayne's accounts of his journeys through Kenya to investigate the ivory trade. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this work.A first hand account of the northwest frontier of the Kenya colony, in which the author details his trips to Turkana/Turkwell and find out more about gun-running and ivory poaching.In 1917,Rayne visits Turkana again, with a 100 men of the Kings African rifles for garrison duty. This trip is also detailed in the work.Illustrated with twenty-eight plates, including a folding plate. Collated, complete.Harry Rayne was a New Zealander who served with the Mounted Rifles in the Boer War and then with the King's African Rifles before joining the British East Africa Police in Mombasa.With two former owner's inscriptions to the front free endpaper, 'G. A. Paul, d.d. V. G. G. 1924', and a further inscription from a man named J L Sullivan, who identifies himself as a chief inspector of the Kenya Police in 1958, and discusses climbing Mt Elgon in 1959. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Shelf wear to back strip tail, with a touch of fraying to back strip head, and light marks to boards. Inscriptions to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with instances of spotting to leaves surrounding plates. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st Edn,. x 192 pages, frontis + 27 plates from photographs + map. Publishers red cloth titled in black, even fading to the spine and outer edges of the front cover. In 1906, Major Rayne was assistant district superintendent of Police in Kisumu. He was asked to go north to Turkana/Turkwell and find out more about gun-running and ivory-poaching, in secret, and challenge Mohamadi-bin-abdulla, who is captured and taken to Mumias. In 1917, Rayne visits Turkana again, with 100 men of KAR (Kings African rifles) for garrison duty. After engaging with the Abyssinians at lake Rudolf. More expeditions take place against Abyssinians and Swahili raiders in Turkana near Lake Rudolf.

1st edition. Plus 12 half-tone plates. 8vo. Original brown cloth, white mark on upper board and label partially removed from spine. Very little foxing almost entirely confined to the edges. 223pp. Witherby. London,