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Price: US$14.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Henry M Stanley. IN DARKEST AFRICA.2-vol. set. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1891.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2-vol. set in original green decorative bindings; new endpapers. No name or writing.
Seller: Terra Firma Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "With two steel engravings, and one hundred and fifty illustrations and maps." Volume 2 only. Rear pocket map has wear and chips on folds and corners. Normal to moderate book wear.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes complete as issued. Green Cloth. 1087 pages. Illustrated with wood engravings. Volume I has two corners and spine ends starting to fray, some rubbing to edges and covers, spotting to foredge and hinges partially cracked. Volume II has the same issues with a reinforced front hinge and spine a bit dulled. Maps missing from pockets of both books. Interiors otherwise very good. (C2)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa - Volume One. Charles Scribner’s sons, 1891.
Price: US$38.75 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Dark green cover has black and gold embossed on the front cover and spine. The cover has a slight amount of crushing on the top and bottom of the spine and very gently bumped tips to the boards. The front cover is pulling away from the body, but still attached. The pages show discoloration due to age, but are still very firmly attached. This book came with a pull-out map that is inside a self-contained sleeve of the back cover. The map is still present and in very fine condition. This book is in fine condition.
Seller: TNT ENTERPRIZES, Libertyville, IL, U.S.A.
Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa, Illustrated, Volume II. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume II only. Cover has some fading; some white spots and scuff marks scattered. Upper and lower spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Front, inside hinge loose. text block and pages tanned from age and shelf-wear. Some underlining.Hardcover
Seller: San Marco Bookstore, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Gold titles on green cloth with an embossed map of Africa on the front, 547 pages with about 150 illustrations and maps. There is an empty pocket at the back of the book which may have held a map. There is some discoloration to the cover and an internal hinge crack at the beginning of the Table of Contents.
Seller: Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 547pp. No maps. Usual library markings. Size: Thick Large Octavo
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good: cracked, v1 hinge broken from text; v2 chewed; stains/No Dustjacket. 1891. 8vo., 547pp., 540pp. . Good: cracked, v1 hinge broken from text; v2 chewed; stains/No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavos. Two volumes. Volume I: [1], xiv, 547 pages, [1]. Illustrations and a color folding map in the back pocket. Volume II: [1], xvi, 540 pages, [1]. Illustrated. Maps removed from the rear pocket volume 2. Defective. Front hinge volume 1 broken. Thin cracks to the text block. Volume 2 front cover is heavily scuffed. Both volumes contain the frontispiece engravings. Interior contents clean. A fair reading copy only missing the maps in volume 2.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 2 volumes xiv, 547, (1); xvi, 540pp. Index. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in darker green and black and lettered in gilt. Illustrated with two steel engraved frontispieces, 150 text woodcuts (some full-page, 1, a color printed land profile, and 3 colored folding maps housed in rear pockets. Title pages with offset browning from the frontispiece tissue guards. Vol. I with tiny chip at head of spine. This is an ex-library set with an old library bookplate on the front pastedowns, library pockets on rear pastedowns and a faint embossed round stamp on the title pages. Spines are a bit darkened and have inked call letters at bottom. Contents: V.1. Prefatory letter to Sir William Mackinnon, chairman of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition -- Introductory chapter -- Egypt and Zanzibar -- By sea to the Congo River -- To Stanley Pool -- From Stanley Pool to Yambuya -- At Yambuya -- To Panga Falls -- From Panga Falls to Ugarrowwa's -- Ugarrowwa's to Kilonga-longa's -- With the Manyuema at Ipoto -- Through the forest to Mazamboni's Peak -- Arrival at Lake Albert and our return to Ibwiri -- Life at Fort Bodo -- To the Albert Nyanza a second time -- The meeting with Emin Pasha -- Personal to the Pasha -- Start for the relief of the rear column -- Arrival at Banalya : Barttelot dead! -- The sad story of the rear column -- Appendix: Copy of log of rear column.; V.2. We start our third journey to th Nyanza -- Arrival at Fort Bodo -- The great central African forest -- Imprisonment of Emin Pasha and Mr. Jephson -- Emin Pasha and his officers reach our camp at Kavall -- We start homeward for Zanzibar -- Emin Pasha -- a study -- To the Albert Edward Nyanza -- The sources of the Nile -- the mountains of the moon, and the fountains of the Nile -- Ruwenzori : the cloud king -- Ruwenzori and Lake Albert Edward -- Through Ankori to the Alexandra Nile -- The tribes of the grass-land -- To the English mission station, south end of Victoria Nyanza -- From the Victoria Nyanza to Zanzibar -- Appendices: A. Congratulations by cable received at Zanzibar ; B. Comparative tables of forest and grass-land languages ; C. Itinerary of the journeys made in 1887, 1888, 1889 ; D. Balance sheet, &c., of the relief expedition -- General index.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Two vols. 8vo. xiv, 547, [1]; xvi, 540 pp. Engraved frontispiece in both vols, over 150 text illusts., maps (2 large folding, 1 each in separate volumes in rear pockets, map in vol. 2 w/ numerous paper repairs on verso). Uniformly bound in original embossed & illustrated green publisher's cloth, map of Africa on front cover, gilt lettering & illust. on spine (minor rubbing, edgewear, inner hinge vol. II repaired at gutter, minor scuffing), still VG- set. Second printing of this account of the attempt to rescue Emin Pasha, after destruction of General Gordon and his army at Khartoum in 1885. Actually, the relief army organized and influenced by the famed explorer missed the mark, and had to be rescued itself by the Emin Pasha. In 1892, Emin Pasha was killed by slave traders, further fueling the sale of this account.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Two Volumes. Green illustrated cloth. Boards and extremities heavily rubbed and chipped. Vol. I front hinge unattached, rear hinge cracked. Paste-down endpapers taped. Endpapers rubbed and stained. Three maps in rear pocket of Vol. I, One map in pocket of Vol. II.
Seller: Booked Up, Inc., Archer City, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set. Second printing (first published in 1890). "With two steel engravings, and one hundred and fifty illustrations and maps". Includes one folded map in the rear pocket of Vol. 1, and two folded maps in the rear pocket of Vol 2. Moderate wear to the extremities. The spines are a bit slanted. In tight bindings with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
STANLEY, Henry M.. In Darkest Africa. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1891.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 2 volumes. 2 folding maps in rear pockets; lacking the Map of the Great Forest Region. A crisp, clean, lovely set, near fine, in the publisher's decorative green cloth. Sturdy and unread. A few scuffs to the front board of volume II, else very nice indeed. Larger folding map has a few stress tears at the folds, but is otherwise clean and nice. Other folding map appears unopened. A very nice example of this popular set, which is often found quite worn.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.Second American edition, 1891. About near fine. Stanley's African exploration classic, illustrated throughout in black and white, with three folding maps in rear pockets. Green cloth with silhouette of the continent blind stamped onto each cover, gilt lettering, 547 plus 540 pages. Very clean throughout with very minor rubbing to the covers.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Stanley, Henry M.. In Darkest Africa.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1891.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 24cm; 2 volumes: xiv, 547; xvi, 540 pages, complete with 2 steel engravings, 43 full-page wood engravings, and 3 folded maps in rear pockets. Numerous in-text wood engravings. Bound in original duotone green cloth stamped with the outline of Africa and titled in gilt. Gilt portrait of Stanley on spines. Remarkably well preserved, with light shelf wear only. Lower hinges tender or splitting. Owner's name in pencil on front pastedown. Nicknamed "breaker of Rocks" by the Congolese, Stanley brought fine European cruelty and murderous racism to Congo and became a hero for it.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on first blank pages. Volume 1: Front hinge has a bit of play. Small closed tear to front free endpaper. Small dark stain on first few pages, not affecting text or pictures. Volume 2: Front hinge started. Else a very handsome set. ; Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering and blindstamped map of Africa. Including three folding maps in rear pockets. Two steel engraved frontispieces and 105 b&w illustrations and maps. This edition was issued one year later after the first edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 547, 540 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint (first published the previous year). 8vo. 2 volumes: xiv, 547; xvi, 540 pp. Illustrated, plates, maps, two large folding color maps in rear pockets. "Relief of Emin Pasha who had been cut off after the fall of Khartoum (1885) by the fanatical force of the Mahdi . this adventure, with descriptions of the forest and its animal life, as well as both vivid and valuable ethnological data regarding the Pigmy tribes . on his way from the vast shadow where so many of his men had met death (only a third survived the expedition), Stanley discovered Ruwenzori or 'Mountains of the Moon'" (DAB). Endpapers neatly replaced in volume 1, else a fine bright copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth. (#4722).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by b/w tissue ports, text engravings and maps . First Edition Maps, Second US edition. c.1890. 2 volumes. Original decorated green buckram, brown eps. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 547. Appendix; xvi, 540. Appendices, Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear to cleaned covers. Hinges and all three 1890 maps in rear pockets have been archivally repaired and reinforced in-house by our binder KTB resulting in a handsome functioning working copy from books to maps, each of which is inserted in plastic in respective volume rear pockets. (Oversize: 6.25lb/2.83kg before packaging).
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. 2 steel-engraved frontispiece portraits, and 150 illustrations & maps, many full-page. 2 (of 3) folding maps, loose as issued in rear pockets; nice condition but as usual starting to separate at folds. Tall thick 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Second American Edition. A very good set. Account of Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha. The expedition "accomplished great things; it had made notable additions to African geography and ethnology. Stanley called for the highest qualities of leadership" (--DNB). This immensely popular account was published simultaneously in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stanley, Henry M. IN DARKEST AFRICA VOL. 1 AND 2. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 2 volumes complete. 2nd Edition, published 1891. Books have previous owner's name, pages unmarked, covers with several tiny white spots on the spine of Vol. I, light corner wear, maps tucked neatly in the compartment on rear covers. Vol II has hinge cracked but holding strong. A nice, clean, tight and very attractive set. Maps have a few tears, some repaired with tape. Vol I has 1 large map, Vol II has two smaller maps, one in color.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Stanley, Henry M.. In Darkest Africa. Charles Scribner's, New York, 1891.
Price: US$775.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes: 548 & 540 pp. Ill. Elaborate deco stamped covers both volumes. Classic work on Stanley's African explorations and his quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. Lovely colletor condition set. Former owner name & year acquired written small and neat on front free endpapers. Crisp sharp looking copy in original gilt and stamped cloth.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa, Vol 1 & 2. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes with two steel-engraved frontispiece portraits and one hundred fifty illustrations and maps, a great many full page. Rear pocket of each volume contain two folding maps, loose as issued. 547pp in Volume One and 540pp in Volume Two. Originally appearing in 1890, these two volumes comprise the fascinating account of Stanleys brave and adventurous expedition to bring Emin Pasha to freedom. A better than very good set, the dark green cloth fresh with modest wear (as usual) at spine extremities but with the gilt titles and gilt authors facsimile signature unusually fresh and splendidly bright, the set presents extremely well.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition. Two Volume Set. Publisher's original green cloth with black Africa blind stamped on front covers, and bright gilt titles on fronts and spines.Steel-engraved frontispiece portraits and one hundred fifty illustrations and maps, many are full page. Rear pockets of both volumes contain two folding maps, loose as issued. Prior owner signature on ffeps. Additional shipping required for this set.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.