Category: Africa

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, May 20, 1961 - The Apprenticeship of Mordecai Richler / Aksel Schiotz / African Diary

By: Allen, Ralph; Mair, Shirley; Richler, Mordecai; Krantz, Judith; gardner, Ray; Stollery, Peter; Heine, William C.

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Montreal, Maclean Hunter : 1961

Seller ID: 201g4719

Binding: Paperback

72 pages. Features: Colour black label beer inside front cover; Very nice one-page colour-photo ad for the 1961 Buick Electra 225 Convertible (black) at the Thornwood train station; Nice one-page colour-photo Pepsi ad shows couple with baseball and bat; First part of series by Ralph Allen features Sir Sam Hughes, who through together a citizens' army in months during WWI - with photos; Enter the Platypus - on Aching Feet - new 'Platypus Point' shoes will reduce the amount of deformation caused to women's feet by needle-point shoes; The Apprenticeship of Mordecai Richler - the story of his fas...
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Eye-Witness to the Annexation of Cameroon 1883-1887

By: Ardener, Shirley G. (Signed)

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Cameroon, Ministry of Primary Education and West Cameroon Antiquities Commission : 1968

Seller ID: 241g3404

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

89 pages. Signed and dated by author atop half-title page. List of references. Reproductions of black and white illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Eye-Witness to the Annexation of Cameroon 1883-1887 History; Signed by Author(s)
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Image for National Home Monthly Magazine, March (Mar.) 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (part II) / Horseman Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards

National Home Monthly Magazine, March (Mar.) 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (part II) / Horseman Lieutenant W. Marshall Cleland, of the Governor General's Horse Guards

By: Atlee, B.; Colver, A.; Richards, C.; Bristol, E.; Kirkconnell, W.; Christie, Agatha; Phayre, I.; Cooper, P.

Price: $349.95

Publisher: Winnipeg, National Home Monthly / Stovel : 1938

Seller ID: 201g4825

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

68 pages. Features: Fantastic cover illustration of three large pink flamingoes; Cute illustration of boy and girl inside front cover with caption "Eat Fish!" in ad sponsored by the Government of Canada; Major editorial about CBC Radio; Brief news coverage of - Australia's 150th birthday, League or Anti-League, A Mediator's Difficulties (re: the League of Nations); Vintage one-page photo ad for the 1938 Dodge Custom Six, Four-Door Touring Sedan; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part 1); Listen to Your Heart (short story); Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The 'Lone Wolf' who put modern Turkey on the Map (...
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National Home Monthly Magazine, April 1938 - The Glamour of New Egypt / The Broke the Power of the Medicine Men

By: Bonnell, James F.; Batten, H.; Gribble, L.; Roberts, T.; Atlee, B.; Peters, J.; Phayre, I.; Godsell, P.; Brown, J.; Bayne, E.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, National Home Monthly / Stovel : 1938

Seller ID: 201g4824

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

76 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of dogs looking at spring robin in tree; News items include - The land where they know it all (Russia), A 'Tough-Minded Arguer, The Will as a Life-Force, The Spiirit of Fair Play, Too Much Commercialism, German's 'Readjustment', In Fascist Italy, Russia's New Revolution, and Northern Ireland; One-page photo ad for the Frigidaire fridge with new silent 'meter-miser'; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Simmons mattress ad shows young lady having sweet dreams; The Glamour of "New" Egypt - photo-illustrated article of this nation, including photo of His M...
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The Illustrated London News, February 28, 1953 - Fire Aboard the Carrier H.M.S. Indomitable / Excavating Old Smyrna

By: Bryant, Arthur; Burton, Maurice; Falls, Cyril; Squire, Sir John; Davis, Frank; Elliott, Clarence; Trewin, J.C.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd. : 1953

Seller ID: 146g2320

Binding: Paperback

Pages 549-592. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Hawker Siddeley Group shows young boy above caption "How Much is a Little Boy Worth?"; Title page photo of Governor-General Sir Robert Howe addressing Khartoum crowds at great holiday parade; North Sudan welcomes the Anglo-Egyptian agreement; Photos of life in southern Sudan; Designs for the decoration of the Coronation route; Two-page illustration of multiple aircraft forms; People in the public eye; The Queen visits Wiltshire, goes racing and attends church; inventions of the day; Dramatic centrefold photo of fire aboard the carrier H.M.S. I...
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The Illustrated London News, May 16 1964 - Repairs to Stonehenge / New York World's Fair

By: Bryant, Arthur; Falls, Cyril; et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd. : 1964

Seller ID: 338h1203

Binding: Paperback

Pages 749-800 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Nice one-page colour photo ad for the Riley elf Mark II Car (red); One page colour photo add for Harvey's Bristol Cream shows seen in art gallery; One page colour photo add for Harvey's Bristol Dry shows man examining painting; Cover page photo of crane lifting huge fallen stone lintel at Stonehenge; Article on the future of Africa with photo of opening of the Northern Rhodesia independence conference on May 5; Photo of fallen balustrade on the Sinclair Road in Hammersmith; Photo of Kenneth Kuanda addressing opening session of the Northern Rhodesia...
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The Illustrated London News, April 11, 1953 - Passing of Queen Mary / Mau Mau Massacre in Kenya

By: Bryant, Arthur; Falls, Cyril; Squire, Sir John; Davis, Frank; Elliott, Clarence; Trewin, J.C.; Burton, Maurice; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd. : 1953

Seller ID: 146g2319

Binding: Paperback

Pages 549-592. Features: Cover photo of Queen Mary's coffin on its journey to Westminster Hall; The death of Ex-King Carol of Rumania; The Mau Mau Massacre - victims and survivors, and some suspects; Two-page photo of ghastly scene where loyal Kikuyu were burned alive; Rail disaster near Conneaut, Ohio; Czech state airline Dakota lands in Frankfurt, passengers request political asylum; Full-page photo of the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Windsor, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent in Queen Mary's funeral procession; Two-page photo of Queen Mary's funeral procession on its way to Wes...
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Image for The Illustrated London News (ILN) February 21, 1953 - Cover Photo of Preparation of the Magnificent Purple Robe To Be Worn By Her Majesty at Her Coronation

The Illustrated London News (ILN) February 21, 1953 - Cover Photo of Preparation of the Magnificent Purple Robe To Be Worn By Her Majesty at Her Coronation

By: Bryant, Arthur; Squire, Sir John; Falls, Cyril

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. : 1953

Seller ID: 302g2796

Binding: Paperback

Pages 261-296. Features: Nice colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" Scotch inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Rootes Group Cars (Sunbeam-Talbot, Hillman Minx); Preparation of the Queen's Coronation robe; Arrival of new U.S. Ambassador, Winthrop W. Aldrrich; Two pages of illustrations of how the Dutch fight their eternal and unwearying enemy - the sea - repairing dykes and reclaiming land; Excellent one-page colour-photo portrait of Dwight Eisenhower; One-page colour photo of the Lord Lyon and Officers of the Scottish Court of Chivalry; The Indo-China War - photos from Nasam and the Qui-No...
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The Illustrated London News (ILN) February 7, 1953 - Loss of the Car Ferry 'Princess Victoria' / Flooding in England and the Netherlands

By: Bryant, Arthur; Squire, Sir John; Falls, Cyril

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. : 1953

Seller ID: 302g2795

Binding: Paperback

Pages 181-220. Features: Cover photos of the loss of the car-ferry 'Princess Victoria' which went down on 31 January with a loss of 128 lives, plus two more pages of dramatic photos of the disaster; Simulating an atomic blast over Clapham Junction; 10 photos related to the murder of the Ruck family by Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya, a shocking crime redeemed only by the heroism of an African houseboy; Full-page photo of massive flooding on Canvey Island, Essex - the Thames estuary pleasure resort; Two more pages of photos of the Canvey Island flooding which killed 100; Photos of flood-related sc...
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Image for The Illustrated London News (ILN) January 24, 1953 - Cover Photo of Newly-inaugurated President Dwight D. Eisenhower / Trial of the Killers of Oradour-Sur-Oradour in France

The Illustrated London News (ILN) January 24, 1953 - Cover Photo of Newly-inaugurated President Dwight D. Eisenhower / Trial of the Killers of Oradour-Sur-Oradour in France

By: Bryant, Arthur; Squire, Sir John; Falls, Cyril

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. : 1953

Seller ID: 302g2794

Binding: Paperback

Pages 105-140. Features: Nice cover photo-portrait of Dwight Eisenhower; Photos of America's new first lady - Mrs. Eisenhower, and Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of the new Vice-President, both wearing their inaugural ball gowns; Photo of six German's tried with murder and other atrocities at the Schirmeck concentration camp during the occupation of France; Photos of the Red Hat Ceremony in Rome where new Catholic Cardinals receive their hats; Photo of the Dutch liner' Klipfontein just before she went under; Photo of horrible accident at Washington's Union station where train lost braking and crash...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIII - No. 254, June 1919 - Yellowstone Winter Tragedy / Wild African Dogs

By: Chanappa, Anadaraya; Martyn, F.; MacAlister, A.; "Split-Pin"; Gaunt, M.; Von Someren, A.; Jones, C.G.; Treadway, J.E.; Jamieson, C.J.; Leslie, H.; Connery, T.M.; Beattie, S.A.; Rose, F.; Nugent, J.E.; Rose, F.; Et al

Price: $395.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd. : 1919

Seller ID: 123g4355

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: My Tiger-Hunting Adventures in India; Adventures of Newspaper-Man, Frederic Martyn (part 2); Canada's New Wonderland - new railway in the neighbourhood of the Yellowhead Pass runs from Edmonton to Prince Rupert - article with great photos; The Raid - author brings down a Gotha; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part 4 - major article of times spent in China with many fascinating photos, including a 3-year-old couple engaged to be married!; Choking An Alligator; In a Cauldron of Fire; Lost in a Limestone Cave; Treed by a Leopard - a miss...
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The New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1967 - Martin Luther King Defines "Black Power"

By: Eder, Richard; Furlong, William Barry; King, Martin Luther Jr.; Raskin, A.H.; Garrison, Lloyd; West, Richard; Peterson, Patricia; Kramer, Rita; Claiborne, Craig; Plumb, B.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times & Arno Press : 1967

Seller ID: 202g4008

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

112 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Great Robin Hood-themed ad for Patty Petite fashions; Nice one-page black and white photo portrait Hohner harmonica ad features Al Hirt; Lovely Springmaid color-photo centerfold Springmaid ad features Sandy Hilton; Nice Jade East ad; Great Jane Irwill ad entitled Knitticism!; Martin Luther King Defines "Black Power" - photo-illustrated article in which King says Blacks respond to violence because they lack influence on American thought, and he advocates the use of Black economic, political, and ideological power (Fisher, page 10); What's W...
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The Wide World Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly, June 1898, Vol. 1, No. 2 - The Queerest Monarch in the World (The King of Uganda)

By: Fitzgerald, W.G.; Ghosh, A.S.; Dubois, R.; Gibbs, M.; Keighley, A.; Adcock, H.; Howard E.; Story, A.T.; Et al

Price: $395.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Limited : 1898

Seller ID: 346h3096

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field -...
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German East: The Story of the First World War in East Africa

By: Gardner, Brian

Price: $149.95

Publisher: London, Cassell : 1963

Seller ID: 223h1696

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

"Examines a campaign which was almost as great a fiasco as much of the grim activity on the Western Front of WWI. The Allied conquest of German East Africa proved a desperate and outlandish struggle. The story abounds in disastrous misunderstandings and stupid underestimations alongside fine feats of heroism and endurance in the face of physical suffering, disease, lack of water, and impenetrable country; tales of old-world courtesy, of an inland naval battle, of incredible marches, ludicrous situations and abject misery. Shows how the war in 'German East' was one of the most fascinating an...
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National Home Monthly Magazine, February (Feb.) 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatrk

By: Gribble, L.; Kroll, H.; Cleaver, H.; Roberts, T.; Christie, Agatha; Sololov, R.; Phayre, I.; Batley, V.; Gianelli, A.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, National Home Monthly / Stovel : 1938

Seller ID: 201g4826

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

68 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of children in winter scene; Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News bits include: Between the Ears, Fellow Travellers in Life, Voices in Talk Group, An Undivorceable Couple, Not at all a simple question. Editorials include Trade Agreements, Is Missionary Effort Being Discredited, and Keeping the Home Fires Burning - with photo-portrait of Chester D. Stovel, August 11, 1870 - December 19, 1937, the last of three brothers who visioned a national magazine when they started this magazine as a four-page supplement to the weekly press ...
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National Home Monthly Magazine, October (Oct.) 1939 - Cave Men of the Kalahari / Anyone Can Shoot!

By: Healy, W.; Stewart, Dr. H.; Rawlings, M.; Bentley, E.; Sims, M.; King, S.; Green, L.G.; Fitz-Gerald, W.; Brown, J.; Bayne, E.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Winnipeg, Stovel / National Home Monthly : 1939

Seller ID: 201g4808

Binding: Paperback

76 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy peeking through hole in fence; Nice one-page ad for Willys cars for 1940; News Digest touches on congress of revolt in Washington, counting our blessings, a lesson from France, why French Cabinets are so short-lived, Japan's "New Order", and denouncing a new treaty; Lovely one-page colour-photo ad for Singer sewing machines; The Yearling (part 1); The Little Mystery; Cave Men of the Kalahari - great photo-illustrated article; One of the Family (short story); Science to the Rescue - National dividends from new experiments in many fields of empire i...
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Look Magazine, July 4, 1939 - Why I Hate My Uncle, By Adolph Hitler's Nephew

By: Hitler, William Patrick; et al

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Des Moines, Iowa, Look/Cowles : 1939

Seller ID: 417h5339

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Includes fascinating six-page photo-illustrated feature by William P. Hitler, Adolph's nephew "who tells so candidly some things about his uncle that only a relative could know". Other features include: Student Nurses - their work and their uniforms; Stockings - short skirts bring new styles - Willy De Mond (Willy's of Hollywood); Why I Want Roosevelt to Run Again, by Harold L. Ickes; Gatti Pictures - an African Chief takes his 70 wives to the Beauty Parlor; Page of America's 10 most wanted, with photos, by J. Edgar Hoover; Movie Preview - Lady of the Tropics, starring Hedy Lamarr, and Robert...
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Facing Mount (Mt.) Kenya - The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu

By: Kenyatta, Jomo (Signed); Malinowski, Bronislaw (Introduction)

Price: $9,500.00

Publisher: London, Secker and Warburg : 1938

Seller ID: 241h0034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Poor dust jacket

First Edition signed and inscribed by Jomo Kenyatta, dated 1944, atop front free endpaper. pp. xxvi, 339. Index. Glossary. Eight pages of black and white photographic plates. One-page map of Gikuyu Country. "One of the first really competent and instructive contributions to African ethnography by a scholar of pure African heritage. Through his upbringing Mr. Kenyatta combines to an unusual extent the knowledge of Western ways and Western modes of thought with a training and outlook essentially African. As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable documen...
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The Wide World - The True Adventure Magazine For Men, March 1961, Vol. 126, No. 749 - Why They Named it Mount Podolsky

By: La Brecque, George; Allinson, Sidney; Allen, Robert Thomas; Allen, Hugh; Krippene, Ken; Rearden, Jim; Paton, John; Horn, Captain C.F. "Trader"

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, George Newnes Ltd. : 1961

Seller ID: 123g3834

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Pages 59-116 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: Four Lives for One - a tale from Algeria; Too Much Rope - Canadian Criminal Norman "Red" Ryan - article with photo; Why They Named it Mount Podolsky - how Canadian George Podolsky saved the lives of three men there after a plane crash - article with photos and illustrations; Death in Sixty-Five Minutes - a snake bite in India; The Greatest Golden Hoard - Incas, El Sangay and Dr. Kurt von Ritter - illustrated article with photo of Dr. von Ritter; Half-Pint Savage - a tale of a wolverine on the Alaska Peninsula; Abo in the Iron Lung - the ...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1923, Vol L, No. 300: Search for the Grosvenor Treasure

By: Lane, Rose Wilder; 'Gulbrandsen'; Dawson, E.B.; Casserly, Lieut.-Col. Gordon; Walmsley, Leo; Wills, Archie; 'Traverse'; Miller, T.S.; Ward, E.D.; Butt-Thompson, Captain F.W.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company : 1923

Seller ID: 346h5244

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa,...
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Category: Africa