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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 86pp, folding map, folding plan, bw ills. Pictorial wraps. Vertical crease, bottom rear corner creased, short margin tear to last page, small corner folds/creases to last several pages. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Illustrated wraps. pp 80. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout, 2 folding maps. Cover illustration by Wyndham Robinson shows ruined alleyway with a 'native' lurking at rear, with the words in red: 'Zimbabwe/ The Mysterious Southern Rhodesia.' Loosely inserted folding conemporary leaflet (6 pages) on the Ancient Ruins of Southern Rhodesia. Slight even spotting and browning, overall decent VG or better.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 86 pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and creased. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Top edge foxed. Covers slightly marked and creased. Illustrated, with fold-outs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Archaeology; Zimbabwe; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 63376.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 86 pages, several foldout plans,b/W ills.

First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page photographs on virtually every page and a folding map showing the plan of the Elliptical Temple. 8vo, publisher's original pictorially decorated wraps printed in red and black on the upper cover 86, [2] pp. A fine copy, usually well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY SCARCE WORK ON THE RUINS OF ZIMBABWE. Written by the curator of the Zimbabwe Ruins from 1910-1936. The rediscovery of the Zimbabwe Ruins in 1868 was due to Adam Renders, an American hunter, who unknowingly pitched his camp on the site of these Ruins and stumbled across the most profound mystery of Africa. Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo. It was settled from around 1000 CE, and served as the capital of the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe from the 13th century. It is the largest stone structure in pre-colonial Southern Africa. Major construction on the city began in the 11th century until the 15th century, and it was abandoned in the 16th or 17th century. The edifices were erected by ancestors of the Shona people, currently located in Zimbabwe and nearby countries. The stone city spans an area of 7.22 square kilometres (2.79 mi2). Population estimates vary. Earlier estimates suggest a peak population of around 20,000 people. A recent study using archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence, along with statistical modeling suggests that the sites population did not exceed 10,000 people. The Zimbabwe state centred on it likely covered 50,000 km (19,000 sq mi). The site of Great Zimbabwe is composed of the Hill Complex, the Valley Complex, and the Great Enclosure (constructed at different times), and contained area for commoner housing within the perimeter walls. There is disagreement on the functions of the complexes among scholars. Some consider them to have been residences for the royals and elites at different periods of the site, while others infer them to have had separate functions. The Great Enclosure, with its 11 m (36 ft) high dry stone walls (that is, constructed without mortar), was built during the 13th and 14th centuries, and likely served as the royal residence, with demarcated public spaces for rituals. Since the 1950s, there has been consensus among archaeologists as to the African origins of Great Zimbabwe. Artifacts and radiocarbon dating indicate settlement in at least the 5th century, with continuous settlement of Great Zimbabwe between the 12th and 15th centuries and the bulk of the finds from the 15th century. The radiocarbon evidence is a suite of 28 measurements, for which all but the first four, from the early days of the use of that method and now viewed as inaccurate, support the 12th-to-15th-centuries chronology. In the 1970s, a beam that produced some of the anomalous dates in 1952 was reanalysed and gave a 14th-century date. Dated finds such as Chinese, Persian and Syrian artefacts also support the 12th- and 15th-century dates.

First edition, first printing. Fine paperback guide book. Fold out maps present.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Folio. Collection of 16 songs, each 5-8pp, many composed to the poetry of Tennyson. Original covers bound in. Collection of Millicent J. Fryer, with her ownership signature to many covers, and dated 1864. Bound in contemporary half-leather. Lacks backstrip, boards detached and suitable for rebacking. Contents lightly used but very good.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Nicolson, W.C.; Whitaker, W.G.; Prater, Ernest; Reynolds, Warwick; Gillett, Frank; Hodgson, E.S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Wood, Stanley L.; Horne, A.E.; Avis, W.; Wigfull, W.E.; Small, A.G. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part 1) - Sister Janina vanished from Isadore, Michigan and it was 12 years before the mystery was solved; Post-Hole Pete - an amusing bear story from the Alaska wilds; The Maddest Exploit of the War - Trooper Gerald Fitzgerald No. 1313 1st King Edward's Horse was unaware of the Armistice so single-handedly pursued the retiring German Army; The Ship That Came Back - the liner "Sesostris" was wrecked off the coast of Guatemala, lifted into a jungle by a volcano, then salvaged to resume her career! - article with photos; Short Stories; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - and After (part 1) - Sergeant H. Wright, D.S.M., of the Royal Marine Light Infantry provides striking narrative; Ants and Other Pests - Mining Engineer E.T. McCarthy's thrilling experiences; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 4 - Mr. Philby describes his travels in central Arabia among the Wahhabi (Wahabi) Arabs - article with photos; The Hunting of Felizardo, a notorious brigand in the Philippines - photo-illustrated article; On Foot Through South America - part 7 of 7 - travels in the "Great Wilderness" of Bolivia, and a meeting with "Jack Thompson" - photo-illustrated article; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron on the Western Front - part 4 (illustrated); Down at Iceland - sights and events on a trip to Iceland in a typical Grimsby trawler ; A Battle with Bears - an exciting story from the wilds of Wyoming, by Frank M. McMaines; Nice illustrated B.V.D. underwear ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy.

15 Vols. 8vo. 320; 304; 314; 315; 317; 307; 320; 319; 317; 320; 318; 318; 317; 308; 319 pp., plus 69 pp. publ. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers, much of the cover art Western motif pulp art with gunfighters, cowboys, and American Indians (minor chipping & wear to head & foot of spines, some creasing, edgewear, light uniform interior toning as usual), still a VG- set, stapled as issued. A substantial run of the famed Western Story Library featuring Ted Strong westerns which would eventually number 75 titles. Ted Strong was a character originally created by Street & Smith's Young Rough Rider Weekly as an homage to Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for a second Presidential term. Strong owned a Dakota ranch similar to Roosevelt's, and with his gang of eastern boys dressed in khaki uniforms such as those worn by the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, they cleaned up the territory for law and order. Published bi-monthly, these stories re-issued Ted Strong westerns originally published in the Young Rough Rider Weekly, and later collected in the New Medal Library. Later volumes contained new material and collected stories from the Wild West Weekly. See: J. Randolph Cox, The Dime Novel Companion, p. 278; Bold, Oxford History of Popular Culture, 6, p. 321.