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Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1111
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. A fold-out map. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Map creased. Minor pen inscription to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.
Published by Seeley Service & Co Ltd, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations, plates and folded map. Contains compliments slip from publisher. Clean pages, plates and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Top textblock edge dyed brown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.
Published by Seeley Service & Co, 1954
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, brown cloth lettered gilt to spine, one gathering pulled but stitching remains, the text is clean and unmarked, The pictorial dust wrapper is worn to edges and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, b&w illustrations, folding map, 257pp.
Published by Seeley Service & Co Ltd, London, 1954
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 255pp; frontispiece, illustrations in half tone; no d/j, brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, spine slightly faded, shelfwear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
1st Edn, 255 pages, illus, a vg anthropological expedition for the American museum of natural history but also hunting lions, elephants, etc.
Published by Seeley Service & Co., London, 1954
Seller: Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. nd. British Library gives 1954 but also a 1956 edition. 5¾ x 8¾" pp. 256 with 40 plates and fold-out map. Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Firm and tight. Contents clean and bright with no stains, marks or labels. Inscription to ffep. In poor dustwrapper with repaired tear and small losses to top and bottom of spine. Reports an expedition of the American Museum of Natural History "developed in co-operation with the museum's Department of Anthropology, concerned itself primarily with the little known natives of the Turkana District of northwestern Kenya Colony, and was the first major scientific expedition ever to return from that forbidding land.".
Published by Seeley Service & Co., London, 1954
Seller: Peter J. Ayre's Books, Somerset, United Kingdom
Book
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Safari from the Cape to Wadi Halfa principally to study the Turkana; Binding: Orig. brown cloth with worn pictorial dust-jacket; Condition notes: V. Good; Illustrations: 40 B/W Photos; Maps: 1; Pages: 256; Edition/printing: 1st.
Published by Seeley, Service & Company, London, 1954
Seller: Haymes & Co. Bookdealers, Kingscliff, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Jacket rubbed and lightly edge worn, price clipped; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.
Published by Seeley Service, 1954
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed on the half-title page by co-author William Morden to another well-known ethnographic couple, "To Lorna & Laurence Marshall, who have travelled + worked in areas that we love, with all best wishes + all success on their next Expedition. Bill Morden [under which is also signed] Irene Morden." Lacks dust jacket; top of half-title page has stamp indicating that this volume was not accessioned by a Harvard University library; the first three preliminary leaves have a three-inch vertical crease at bottom; this volume is rated Good- chiefly because two leaves at back have a small area of wear in the fore-edge margins, including creasing and (on one leaf) a short closed tear, which was partially repaired with what looks like archival document repair tape; the foldout map has narrow crease at edge; a few margins have minor soil; tight, text clean. 256 p., with chapter-head illustrations, 40 leaves of plates, and the aforementioned foldout map. Exciting provenance. [b 215]. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Seeley Servive & Co. Limited, 1954
Seller: The Defunct Design Book Store, Middletown, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardcover with dust jacket signed by Irene Morden. Dust jacket: Not price clipped, light to moderate wear with some spots which might be water damage also a couple small chips. Brown cloth covered boards with pictorial end papers. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Seeley Service Co, London, 1954, 1954
Seller: SAFARI BOOKS, Edmonton, AB, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Big Game Hunting Safari in East Africa with the legendary Phillip Percival as the hunter-guide and young Harry Selby as the assistant hunter to Mr. Percival. Profusely illustrated with photographs and a folding map of Kenya and Tanganyika, end-papers reinstated professionally with binder's tape, uneven pages, overall a nice tight volume.
Published by Seeley Service & Co, London, 1954
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Seeley Service & Co., [1954]. Octavo, 256 pages with a map and numerous vignette illustrations, plus 40 full-page plates (from photographs) and a folding map. Brown cloth; top edge dyed brown; edges slightly marked; a near-fine copy with the very good unclipped dustwrapper slightly marked and rubbed, with a few small chips and tears. This expedition, 'which was developed in conjunction with the [American Museum of Natural History's] Department of Anthropology, concerned itself primarily with the little-known natives of the Turkana District of northwestern Kenya Colony, and was the first major scientific expedition ever to return from that forbidding land' (from the foreword). While the focus may be on east Africa, the intrepid couple journeyed from Cape Town to Khartoum, and their activities included hunting lion and elephant and visits to the diamond and gold mines of central Africa.
Published by London, Seeley Service & Co., no year (c.1954)., 1954
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Book
16 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, 255 pages. 40 photographic illustrations including frontispiece. Fold-out map of Kenya and Uganda within book's interior. Hardcover [publisher's original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. With the beautifully illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Excellent / Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes, for example, the following: The Transkei / Gold, Diamonds and White Water/ Among the Turkana / The Domain of the Lion / From Treetops to Elephants / South to the Masai and East to Zanzibar / Safari's End etc. William James Morden was born in Chicago, Ill. on January 3, 1886 to a wealthy family with a railroad business. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1908 with an advanced degree in engineering, which he put to use while working for his family's company before serving as a lieutenant in the Army Engineers Corps in France during WWI. Morden began his life as an explorer in 1921 when he took off on his first journey, an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Yukon Territory. Four major expeditions followed which were also under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. These included voyages to central Asia for the Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition in 1926 and the Morden-Graves Expedition in 1929-1930, and to Africa for the Morden African Expedition in 1922-1923 and for another expedition conducted 1947 and again in 1953. He also funded expeditions to Hawaii, Brazil, and Ecuador to collect fish specimens for the Ichthyology Department. Morden's expeditions primarily took place to gather mammalian specimens for the museum and he and his team also extensively filmed their experiences while traveling. His 1947 expedition to Africa yielded artifacts and film footage of a number of tribes. Irene Hambright Morden, Morden's second wife, was an active participant on these expeditions and the two completed a book on some of their experiences entitles Our African Adventure, published in 1954. William James Morden died in his home in Chappaqua, NY on January 24, 1958. (Biographical note on William James Morden on the American Museum of Natual History Research Library's website) After his death, Irene led an expedition to Africa in 1965 under the auspices of the Yale Peabody Museum. (the African Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History website) Sprache: english.