Fred Merfield (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Condition: Good. 1960. No edition remarks. 286 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (africa, travel, biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with even toning. Good DJ with some edge wear and toning.

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 249 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout with map to frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to rear free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good ++. Reprint. 288 pages. Green and cream patterned dustjacket which has moderate wear to edges and corners. Clean light green hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Clean and tidy pages.

Leinen. Condition: Befriedigend. 263 Seiten folienkaschiertes exBibliotheksexemplar mit den üblichen Stempeln/Signaturen, Kanten bestossen, Deckelleinen falzseitig mit Anriß, hinterer Vorsatz mit Fehlstelle von entfernter Leihkartentasche, Schnitt und gelegentlich innen Altersfleckchen /// Standort Wimregal HAA-3808 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 422.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Book Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Good++ Hardback. No Jacket. First Published.

Leinen, Gebundene Ausgabe, SU. Condition: Gut. 263 Seiten, ill. SU. leicht berieben/angeschmutzt, ansonsten gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 950.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book Club.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Longman, Green & Co., London, 1956, first printing. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.5" x 8.5". 238 pp. Green paper covered boards. The story of a professional hunter, who spent 35 years in the French Cameroons, and whose specialty was gorilla. Several chapters on big game hunter, Major Powell-Cotton. "Merfield traveled to French Cameroons to bag gorilla specimens for museums. Hunting with P.H.B. Powell-Cotton, he also bagged elephant, eland and other game" (Czech). Published in the U.S. as Gorilla Hunter, 1956. Very good in very good wrapper.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppxvi,249. B/w photograph plates. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Boards & end-paper slightly stained & bumped. A good reading copy in frayed dust-wrapper. This is the US edition of Gorillas were my Neighbours, published by Longmans, Green & Co., London 1956. "Fred Merfield has hunted wild animals in the French Cameroons for 35 years, but he is not a 'sportsman.' He is a professional hunter, collecting rare animals for museums and zoos, and his speciality is the gorilla, the largest of the apes and one of the rarest." "Fascinating record of [the author's] adventures and discoveries .unsurpassed for excitement in contemporary fiction." Studying gorillas, and occasionally shooting them, as well as elephant hunting, in the Congo and the Cameroons. Chapters include: The great gorillas of Ambam; The Maka cannibals; Chimps, Chogas and gorillas; Big game hunters; L'Inspecteur de Chasse; The ghost of the Sanaga grasslands; The woman chieftain of Cheke; The silent city of Rei Bouba; The Mendjim Mey; Shootman's woman; Jungle housekeeper; Good-bye gorillas. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book has compressions and light rolling to leading corners, else a fine book. Jacket has paper repairs to minor chipping and closed tears at the head of the jacket. Not price clipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 288pp. Green cloth covered boards. Series dustjacket is priceclipped, with a little loss to the edges. Map. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Life in the forests of West Africa as a hunter with the Mendjim people of West Cameroon.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 288 pp. Green cloth covered boards. Series dustjacket with a little loss to the edges. Map. B + w photographs. Internally clean. The author was a hunter who lived for years in the the jungles of West Cameroon with the Mendjim people.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG. Mild edgewear, light creasing to spine & upper corner of front cover, pages lightly tanned, four pages of monochrome plates. Cover art by John Richards.

263 Seiten Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen, mit einer Namenseintragung. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400 Hardcover Leinen, mit Schutzumschlag.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppxvi,249. B/w photograph plates. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Boards & end-papers slightly stained but good-plus in used, price-clipped dust-wrapper. This is the US edition of Gorillas were my Neighbours, published by Longmans, Green & Co., London 1956. "Fred Merfield has hunted wild animals in the French Cameroons for 35 years, but he is not a 'sportsman.' He is a professional hunter, collecting rare animals for museums and zoos, and his speciality is the gorilla, the largest of the apes and one of the rarest." "Fascinating record of [the author's] adventures and discoveries .unsurpassed for excitement in contemporary fiction." Studying gorillas, and occasionally shooting them, as well as elephant hunting, in the Congo and the Cameroons. Chapters include: The great gorillas of Ambam; The Maka cannibals; Chimps, Chogas and gorillas; Big game hunters; L'Inspecteur de Chasse; The ghost of the Sanaga grasslands; The woman chieftain of Cheke; The silent city of Rei Bouba; The Mendjim Mey; Shootman's woman; Jungle housekeeper; Good-bye gorillas. .

Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 249 pages (complete). Boards edge worn, sunned, marked. Previous ownership inscriptions, tanning, foxing, scribbles, markings. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Gorillas Were My Neighbours by Fred Merfield is a fascinating firsthand account of life and wildlife in the remote regions of Central Africa. Drawing on personal experiences, Merfield shares vivid encounters with gorillas and other animals while offering insight into the challenges and adventures of living close to nature. The book combines travel narrative, natural history, and memoir, making it an engaging read for wildlife enthusiasts and armchair explorers alike. A unique and memorable look at the world of mountain gorillas and the people who lived alongside them.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppxvi,249. B/w photograph plates. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Boards & end-papers stained as usual but good in complete dust-wrapper. This is the US edition of Gorillas were my Neighbours, published by Longmans, Green & Co., London 1956. "Fred Merfield has hunted wild animals in the French Cameroons for 35 years, but he is not a 'sportsman.' He is a professional hunter, collecting rare animals for museums and zoos, and his speciality is the gorilla, the largest of the apes and one of the rarest." "Fascinating record of [the author's] adventures and discoveries .unsurpassed for excitement in contemporary fiction." Studying gorillas, and occasionally shooting them, as well as elephant hunting, in the Congo and the Cameroons. Chapters include: The great gorillas of Ambam; The Maka cannibals; Chimps, Chogas and gorillas; Big game hunters; L'Inspecteur de Chasse; The ghost of the Sanaga grasslands; The woman chieftain of Cheke; The silent city of Rei Bouba; The Mendjim Mey; Shootman's woman; Jungle housekeeper; Good-bye gorillas. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Companion Book Club EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. VG h/c in tape repaired art DJ with few chips, small hole upper spine. Strip cut top FFEP. Cover corners bumped. Top page edges dusty, others foxed. Little interior foxing. 249 pages, 18 b/w photos, map. Between the world wars the author and his wife spent many years deep in West Africa. He was a famed 'white hunter', they lived with a primative tribe and studied the rare and gigantic gorillas, compiling much information about the species.

Condition: buono. Esplorazioni Travel and Explorations Explorations Il sestante trad. di Adriano Brambilla tela edit. con ill. al piatto, fregi oro e titoli al dorso, manca sovrac. illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo fuori catalogo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st printing. Square and unmarked. Map frontis., 249pp., photos. Jacket is rubbed, with shallow chipping around spine head. In a protective mylar cover. -- Life among the Mendjims and the gorillas of West Africa. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Ottimo esemplare rilegato con numerose ill., senza sovraccoperta pp. 268.