Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Worn copy; hinges cracked; extremities clear taped; bookplate; gift inscription; 2 maps clear taped; cloth much worn & wrinkled; binding still firm ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 505 pages. Bound in the original brown cloth. Binding slightly worn at extremities. Label removed from base of spine, edges of leaves slightly spotted. Small dent in the outer edge of each cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: William H. Allen Bookseller, Shillington, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: frontis, illustrations, 2 folding maps, xiv, 510p. plus 2p. publisher's advertisements. Green cloth. 24cm. Ends of backstrip internally reinforced. Extremities rubbed. Covers dulled. Front hinge visibly reglued. Folding map of Coomassie Expedition split at last fold and rather worn. A couple of signatures pulled. Account of battles in Ghana (against the Ashanti) and in Ethiopia. We've also had this American edition in reddish-brown cloth.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Harper and Brothers; New York, 1874. Hardcover. First Edition. A Good, brown cloth binding with blind stamped initials on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding a bit shaky, moderate scuffing and some soiling to boards and spine, frayed spine edges with small tears to spine edge buckram, binding a bit shaky, cracked hinges, two fold out pages present, exposed board corners, rubbing to board edges, rubbing to board and spine edges, bit of age toning to pages, chipped rear free endpaper fore-edge, moisture stain bottom front pastedown/front free endpaper/prelims and few pages in front, moisture stains bottom text block edge and several pages at inner corner without impact on text, without Dust wrapper. A good and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 510pp., appendix, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, published same year as first English edition. Octavo. xiv, 510 pp. Two folding maps, sixteen engraved plates, and twelve engraved illustrations in text. Publisher's blue cloth with beveled edges, gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Light overall wear and unusual hatched emboss mark to margin of frontispiece portait, else a very good copy.A classic book on Africa, by Stanley, the famous explorer, special correspondent to The New York Herald, and author of In Darkest Africa and How I Found Livingstone. "'Coomassie and Magdala: the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa,' is the title I have chosen for this volume, written to record two grand successes gained by English soldiers in East and West Africa.?A greater contrast could not be made than is presented by the story of the two expeditions which England undertook in Africa, in behalf of her honour, her dignity, humanity, and justice; and more brilliant successes than attended these two campaigns in hostile countries are not recorded in history" (Preface).
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. 2 folding maps, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plates with tissue guards and in-text illustrations. xiv, 510, [2, ads]pp. 8vo. Hosken p.189 Publisher's green cloth. Some minor wear, Very Good 2 folding maps, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plates with tissue guards and in-text illustrations. xiv, 510, [2, ads]pp. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
STANLEY, HENRY M.. COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA. Harper and Brothers, 1874.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Stanley's reporting and anlysis of 2 major and successful British campaigns in East and West Africa as a special correspondent to the New Yor Herald. Black and White illustrations by Melton Prior (special artist in Ashantee of the illustrated London news). Decorative green linen covers with gilt lettering on spine. Dark brown claycote endpapers. 510pp + advertisement. 2 maps intact. An impressive 1882 calligraphy style inked presentation is on the free front endpaper The book is sound, tight and without further writing or marks. The head and tail of the spine have received professional attention to strengthen the extremities. Overall, this is a Very Good Plus example of a most uncommon Stanley work.
Seller: Theodore J. Holsten Jr., Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$305.25 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xiv, 510, [2]ads. frontis. portrait, 2 folding maps. 26 plates & text illus. original cloth (extremities worn & frayed, large map with dampstains & short tears along folds with slight loss). First American Edition. The account of two British military campaigns in East and West Africa in 1868 and 1873-74, led by Sir Robert Napier and Sir Garnet Wolseley respectively, both of which Stanley accompanied as a war correspondent for the New York Herald. Napiers campaign in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) was conducted against Emperor Theodore, who was holding foreign hostages in his mountain fortress, Magdala. The fortress was stormed, his hostages were freed, and Theodore himself committed suicide. Wolseleys successful Kumassi campaign was carried out against King Koffee and the Ashanti in the jungles of what is now Ghana and Sierra Leone. His reports on the Abyssianian campaign, the earliest received even in London, established Stanleys reputation as one of the leading journalists of the time while his bravery in the march to Kumassi won him the highest respect of Wolseley and other English officers. cfHosken p. 189. cfGay 2874bis.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 510, 2 (ads); 2 folding maps, 17 wood-engraved plates, 11 wood engravings in the text; a near fine, bright copy in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$318.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wear to extremities with corners slightly bumped. Top & bottom of spine worn. Previous owner's writing on title-page. Internally VG+ (including maps and illustrations) with binding tight; Sky-blue boards with clay-brown endpapers. Frontispiece and 27 illustrations. 2 maps. ; 8vo; 510 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Numerous illustrations from drawing by Melton Prior (Illustrated London News), and other artists. 2 folding maps. 510 pages, 8vo, green cloth (hinges repaired, covers scuffed and bumped). New York: Harpers, 1874. First Edition. Very Good. Small ownership stamp on title page.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.