Lot Details
Lot 397
[WOMEN'S ACCOUNTS OF AFRICA] Eleven titles.
Comprising: DIXIE, FLORENCE, Lady. In the Land of Misfortune. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1882. First edition. Publisher's green pictorial cloth. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Spine darkened, extremities worn with minor loss, pale staining to cloth, scattered foxing; HERBERT, AGNES. Two Dianas in Somaliland. The Record of a Shooting Trip. London: John Lane and New York: John Lane Company, 1908. First edition. Publisher's red cloth. Frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Spine sunned with tips bumped, some pale staining to cloth, scattered foxing, bookplates to front pastedown; GAUNT, MARY. Along in West Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons and London: T. Werner Laurie, [1911]. First edition. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth gilt, map endpapers. Frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Extremities a bit worn, endpapers toned, else attractive; MATURIN, MRS. FRED [=EDITH CECIL-PORCH]. Adventures Beyond the Zambesi of the O'Flaherty: The Insular Miss: The Soldier Man: and the Rebel-Woman. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, plates, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Spine sunned, extremities a bit worn, endpapers a bit toned, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown; MALLETT, MARGUERITE. A White Woman Among the Masai. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1923. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Jacket with minor losses along edges, cloth tips bumped, toned newsclippings mounted to endpapers and offsetting to facing pages, scattered foxing, offsetting from removed clippings throughout, booksellers ticket to front pastedown; STRICKLAND, DIANA. Through the Belgian Congo. London: Hurst & Blackett, [circa 1927]. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, map endpapers. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Spine lightly sunned, extremities a bit worn, endpapers toned, scattered foxing throughout; TILTMAN, MARJORIE HESSELL. Women in Modern Adventure. London, Bombay, and Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1935]. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth. Frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Extremities bumped, somewhat overopened, endpapers a bit spotted; AKELEY, MARY L. JOBE. Restless Jungle. New York: National Travel Club, [1936]. First edition. Publisher's black cloth gilt, map endpapers. Plates after photographs, half-title. Extremities bumped, endpapers toned, scattered foxing; JOHNSON, [OSA]=MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON. Osa Johnson's Jungle Friends. Philadelphia etc.: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1939]. First edition. Publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, in dust jacket. Illustrated after photographs, half-title. Jacket a bit edgeworn with minor losses to extremities, cloth tips bumped, lightly and evenly toned throughout; JOHNSON, OSA. Four Years in Paradise. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1941]. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Light edgewear to jacket with minor loss to corners, cloth tips bumped, else fine; and AKELEY, MARY L. JOBE. Congo Eden. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1950. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Minor edgewear and toning to near-fine jacket, cloth tips bumped, interior fine.
The lot eleven volumes. (11)
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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