Junglemania (8 results)

Hardcover. Good-only used condition (spine is browned and worn at tips; paint stain rear cover; internally bright and binding is tight).

1st Ed. xii + [i] + 302pp. + 26pp. publ. adverts. 14 ills. Light age toning, inscribed to 'F. Jensen from Mother Xmas 1935', original orange cloth, sl. soiled and warped, ragged d/w. The Jungles of Africa and Borneo. US$73.

Sydney 1933. 8vo. Or.cl. XIV30226pp. With frontisp. and 7 full-page plates. Some slight foxing. NOTE: A tropical doctor in Africa and Borneo.

310 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped jacket with some minor edgewear and dust-soiling to the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Complete with all Illustrations. Publication of 288 pages. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are in good condition. There if foxing around the block of the book and on the first and last few pages. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Guischard (illustrator). First American Edition. Purported account of a medical missionary in Africa and Borneo, but, as a newspaper clipping pasted inside notes, the book was withdrawn from circulation in England after another author, Owen Rutter, noticed several passages taken from his book 'Sepia', a/k/a 'Passion Fruit'; Torrance denied ever hearing of Rutter's book. INSCRIBED by Torrance on the free endsheet: "To Sheppy with the love of an old comrade. Arthur Torrance." Hardcover in lurid jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, corners bumped, torn newspaper clipping pasted inside front cover; endsheets tanned, rubberstamp of Bell's Books, Palo Alto inside rear cover; jacket a bit rubbed with some small chips, spine darkened, round stain (removed sticker, likely) over price on jacket flap. Text clean; 310 pages; 38 b/w photos, as called for, many also featuring topless women. Size: Octavo. Inscribed by the Author.

8vo. 310 pp. Illustrated title, numerous photo plates. Beige publisher's cloth, brown lettering & palm tree front cover (edgewear & rubbing to lower fore-edge, occasional light toning), w/ d.j. salacious cover art by Guischard of the good doctor injecting comely nude African maiden on front cover, photo of "author" on spine (minor dustsoiling, creasing and minor chipping to lower right corner front cover), still VG/VG- copy. First American edition of this very popular work in the United States, published simultaneously in the UK as Junglemania: Exploring the Jungles for Science." The memoir was allegedly based on the author's medical expeditions in Central Africa and Borneo at the behest of the Royal Society of Tropical medicine. However, the rousing tale of adventure and lure of the jungle was quickly pulled in the UK due to many plagiarized passages from Owen Rutter's 1924 novel set in Borneo, "Passion Fruit." The photographs also generated controversy as they mostly appeared to reproduce the popular RPPC's sold to tourists in Borneo, and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine denied ever dispatching him, even though he had been accepted as a member. Dr. Torrance was not to keep himself out of trouble as he was later arrested for murdering his third wife in Mexico while on honeymoon -- with a thermos flask. See: Emilie Taylor-Pirie, Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935 (2022), pp. 85-90.

Condition: Acceptable. 1933 Macaulay Press tan cloth hardcover, solid and unmarked, no jacket, no jacket, exowner name inscribed, covers have wer and staining. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!