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The Brave Remain -
Paul Baragwanath
Camera Adventures in the African Wilds -
A. Radclyffe Dugmore
1910 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition
A large quarto, profusely illustrated with 125 monochrome photographs of wildlife, ‘natives’, and scenery (such as a magnificent photograph of a heavily snow covered mount Kenya). Early use of techniques such as flashlight and telephotography. Full page outline map of the journey taken.
Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore, was a big game hunter who forsook the rifle for the camera, and according to the 1910 New York Times review of this book, ‘as a reformed “game butcher” to use the opprobrious term bestowed upon the most illustrious of modern hunters by his enemies, Mr. Dugmore is in an admirable position to urge superiority of the more modern and less destructive form of sport.’
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1910 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition
A large quarto, profusely illustrated with 125 monochrome photographs of wildlife, ‘natives’, and scenery (such as a magnificent photograph of a heavily snow covered mount Kenya). Early use of techniques such as flashlight and telephotography. Full page outline map of the journey taken.Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore, was a big game hunter who forsook the rifle for the camera, and according to the 1910 New York Times review of this book, ‘as a reformed “game butcher” to use the opprobrious term bestowed upon the most illustrious of modern hunters by his enemies, Mr. Dugmore is in an admirable position to urge superiority of the more modern and less destructive form of sport.’
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A Thousand Miles Up The Nile -
Amelia B. Edwards
1888 - George Routledge and Sons, London - Second Edition. Revised and updated.
A near fine copy of a quintessential Victorian travel book, by a pioneering Egyptologist.
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1888 - George Routledge and Sons, London - Second Edition. Revised and updated.
A near fine copy of a quintessential Victorian travel book, by a pioneering Egyptologist.
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The Good Doctor - SIGNED -
Damon Galgut
2003 - Atlantic Books, London - First Edition
‘Quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years, one of the most profound and luminous testimonies to the transition between old and the new in South Africa... Damon Galgut transcends the familiar territory of South Africa today to grapple with essential human darkness.’ - André Brink Sunday Independent.
‘Like most elements of this slim, absorbing novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, the title is ambiguous. In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story, but he's also in pursuit of something murkier: the double-edged nature of doing good in a land where "the past has only just happened.’ - The New Yorker
Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker prize.
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2003 - Atlantic Books, London - First Edition
‘Quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years, one of the most profound and luminous testimonies to the transition between old and the new in South Africa... Damon Galgut transcends the familiar territory of South Africa today to grapple with essential human darkness.’ - André Brink Sunday Independent.‘Like most elements of this slim, absorbing novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, the title is ambiguous. In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story, but he's also in pursuit of something murkier: the double-edged nature of doing good in a land where "the past has only just happened.’ - The New Yorker
Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker prize.
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Sand Rivers -
Peter / Hugo Matthiessen / van Lawick [Photographer]
1981 - Viking Press, New York - First Edition
‘A strange, bittersweet, autumnal book based on a safari into the 22,000 square mile Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the last great wildernesses left on earth. Once again we have a clear triumph from Peter Matthiessen, who has delivered so many that I am reminded of D.H. Lawrence's insistence that the only true aristocracy on earth is that of consciousness. Whenever Mr. Matthiessen publishes a book, we learn what new lid of consciousness he has popped through.’ - New York Times Book Review
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1981 - Viking Press, New York - First Edition
‘A strange, bittersweet, autumnal book based on a safari into the 22,000 square mile Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the last great wildernesses left on earth. Once again we have a clear triumph from Peter Matthiessen, who has delivered so many that I am reminded of D.H. Lawrence's insistence that the only true aristocracy on earth is that of consciousness. Whenever Mr. Matthiessen publishes a book, we learn what new lid of consciousness he has popped through.’ - New York Times Book Review
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The Tree Where Man Was Born - The African Experience -
Peter Matthiessen, Eliot Porter
1972 - E. P. Dutton & Co., New York - First Edition
Two celebrated American Naturalists, Matthiessen, an acute observer of the natural world, and Porter, one of the best colour photographers at the time, join to evoke the spirit of Africa, from the Upper Nile in the Sudan, south through Tanzania, northwest to remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier.
Large format [28.5 x 25cm], with more than 100 colour photographs.
For those that like infinite detail - Apparently, for the first edition, ‘$14.95 before October 25th, 1972, $17.50 thereafter.’ was printed at the top corner of the inside front flap of the dust jacket, and ‘$17.50’ was also printed on the lower corner, later the top corner was clipped by the publisher leaving the higher price only, and later still the jacket was only printed with the $17.50 price. However there was also a jacket with no price at all, the book within being a beige colour with dark brown titles, unlike the book whose jacket was priced, which was bound in dark brown with titles in gilt. Both binding types had ‘first edition’ stated on the verso of the title page. This particular copy is dark brown with titles in gilt. Jacket price clipped to top and bottom corners of front flap. But instead of worrying about all this, it would be better to just get on and enjoy the book.
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1972 - E. P. Dutton & Co., New York - First Edition
Two celebrated American Naturalists, Matthiessen, an acute observer of the natural world, and Porter, one of the best colour photographers at the time, join to evoke the spirit of Africa, from the Upper Nile in the Sudan, south through Tanzania, northwest to remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier.Large format [28.5 x 25cm], with more than 100 colour photographs.
For those that like infinite detail - Apparently, for the first edition, ‘$14.95 before October 25th, 1972, $17.50 thereafter.’ was printed at the top corner of the inside front flap of the dust jacket, and ‘$17.50’ was also printed on the lower corner, later the top corner was clipped by the publisher leaving the higher price only, and later still the jacket was only printed with the $17.50 price. However there was also a jacket with no price at all, the book within being a beige colour with dark brown titles, unlike the book whose jacket was priced, which was bound in dark brown with titles in gilt. Both binding types had ‘first edition’ stated on the verso of the title page. This particular copy is dark brown with titles in gilt. Jacket price clipped to top and bottom corners of front flap. But instead of worrying about all this, it would be better to just get on and enjoy the book.
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The Blanket -
Audrey Alison Murray
1958 - The Vanguard Press, New York - First US Edition
One of the first books out of South Africa on apartheid.
A novel about the clash between primitive African justice and civilized justice.
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1958 - The Vanguard Press, New York - First US Edition
One of the first books out of South Africa on apartheid. A novel about the clash between primitive African justice and civilized justice.
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile -
John Hanning Speke
1863 - William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London - First Edition
A good clean copy, becoming increasingly difficult to find, in the original gilt illustrated publisher’s cloth boards, two steel-engraved portrait plates, including the frontispiece, 25 wood-engraved plates, and numerous other illustrations throughout. Two maps, including the large folding of Eastern Equatorial Africa [dated 1863. Size 44.5x57.5cm] in pocket to rear, which is often missing. 34 pages of publisher’s advertisements.
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1863 - William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London - First Edition
A good clean copy, becoming increasingly difficult to find, in the original gilt illustrated publisher’s cloth boards, two steel-engraved portrait plates, including the frontispiece, 25 wood-engraved plates, and numerous other illustrations throughout. Two maps, including the large folding of Eastern Equatorial Africa [dated 1863. Size 44.5x57.5cm] in pocket to rear, which is often missing. 34 pages of publisher’s advertisements.
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