Raper Fred (4 results)
Language: English
Published by Skeffington, London 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, , New ZealandTinakori Books
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Green Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. 256 pages, frontispiece and 21 other b/w illustrations. Ex-lending library but only markings on front endpaper, not on binding, slight watermarks bottom corner of frontispiece. Rare autobiography of an incredibly adventurous life covering, the Klondyke gold rush, the founding days of…Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi in Zaire), prospecting in Africa, British Columbia, World war one in Kenya etc. etc.
Published by Skeffington & Son 1938 1st edition 1938
- Hardcover
Seller: Yesterday's Books, BOURNEMOUTH, , United KingdomYesterday's Books
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256 pages, illustrations : his autobiography including his early days in Yorkshire, his time in Canada and his travels and work in Africa (opening the first hotel & butcher's shop in Elisabethville & on safari in Kenya, with the Masai & the Kenya settlers); hardback, boards have small white spots, spine faded with small blemish…to top ow g++ SCARCE africa general kenya congo african exploration elisabethville kenyan safari masai kenya settlers.
Published by Skeffington & Son 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. the original boards are shelf rubbed and the spine is knocked. there is some staining affecting a few pages. the book is complete with all plates. a previous owner's inscription. the binding is excellent. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
More imagesPublished by London, Skeffington & Son Ltd., 1938 1st 1938
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United KingdomPROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP
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Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW tanned with some faint water marks, top end of spine clipped, and chipped at bottom end. Not price clipped. In protective sleeve.) Cloth clean and smart, some minor darkening/ foxi…ng spots to outer edges of pageblock. Some occasional foxing to inside pages, with some areas of darker foxing to pages opposite plates, including main title page opposite frontis. Frontis plate signed by Author at bottom ?With the Author?s compliments Fred Raper, 7/11/38.? And inscribed at top corner ?George Kinnear, November 1938.? (Editor of The E.A. Standard.) Else a very good signed copy. 256pp. Illustrated with 22 B&W photographs on double sided full-page plates.
