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ref. ANAIS-194158294XCatalyst Game Labs. hardcover. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Catalyst Game Labs hardcover
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ref. ANAIS-1941582338Catalyst Game Labs. paperback. Good. 10.6x0.6x8.4. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Catalyst Game Labs paperback
ref. 73703Exile game Studio 2014-03-01. paperback. Good. 8x5x0. a good solid copy. clean and tight pages. fast and secure shipping. Exile game Studio paperback
ref. 63841London: Published by “East Africa” East Africa Ltd. 1928. Tall 8vo. xvi 318 pp. Frontisp. map with numerous photo plates. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear edgewear rubbing w/ printed dark brown d.j. minor scuffing edgewear couple closed tears tidemarks at couple corners still VG-/G copy. First edition of this very scarce follow-up to this African adventurer’s “King of the Wa-kikuyu” and relates his adventures as an elephant ivory poacher in the Lado Enclave of East Africa and travels through British East Africa Uganda Belgian Congo and Ethiopia. He was the first Eurocaucasian trader to travel from Addis Ababa Ethiopia to the capital of Kenya. Boyes 1874-1951 first arrived in East Africa when Nairobi was largely uninhabited made friends with the Kikuyu was admitted to their blood brotherhood became their uncrowned king and later settled down as a coffee grower and dairy farmer. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Published by “East Africa,” East Africa, Ltd., hardcover
1926ref. 63787St. Louis MO: C.V. Mosby Co. 1926. 8vo. 207 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 114 photo text illustations 1 map. Red publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this memoir of travel and big game hunting primarily for man-eating tigers through French Indo-China Cambodia and India between-the-Wars drawn from letters initially serially published in The Kansas City Star and subsequently assembled here. C.V. Mosby Co., hardcover
1941ref. 63851New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1941. Tall 8vo. 277 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Brick-red publisher’s cloth blue lettering pictorial map endpapers slight shelfwear 2 pp. w/ soiling a few leaves at rear w/ ragged fore-edges from poor opening w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by George Salter 1897-1967 and one of his earliest for the American book market minor creasing light dustsoiling to back cover 1 very small closed tear First edition stated & signed of this rousing autobiographical memoir of how this Texan rose from raw beginnings as a bellhop in a Chicago Hotel to become one of the most well-known 20th-Century adventurers. He has interspersed this account with tales hunting animals in Burma Sumatra Tibet Borneo Malaysia Singapore New Guinea and other places around the globe for sale to zoos complete with the uncommon dustjacket. Robert M. McBride & Co., hardcover
1952ref. 63021Paris: Imprimeurs L.I.E.S.A. 174 Quae de Jemmapes 1952. Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 7.75 in. 2 24 pp. colour-lithograph illustrations throughout 10 leaves unnumbered. consisting of 4 colour lithograph boards to cut out alphabet letters for playing 2 black & white lithograph letter pages for colouring cutting out themselves and playing word games 1 thick instruction leaf 3 printed leaves on blue- salmon- and green-tinted thin paper instruction sheets. Flexible boards colour-lithographed front cover rear board with model figures on verso to be cut out to create paper-engineered toys spiral metal comb binding as issued minor edgewear age toning still a VG and complete copy. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated and charming alphabet game/book featuring anthropomorphic letters in the “Kingdom of the Alphabet” set against the adventures of a Medieval/Renaissance Country of Vowels and the Isle of Consonants uniting over a banquet ball to form an alphabet. Marquet 1892-1984 and Desnoyer 1901-1988 were illustrators and miniaturists noted for their inventive games and illustrations who had originally designed this game/book in 1939. They were married to the well known painters Albert Marquet and Francois Denoyer respectively. Desnoyer a Russian-Ukrainian emigre from Kiev had originally landed in Bohemia by 1906 where she learned the Western alphabet and later settled in France. This particular copy not only features the four colour lithograph boards for children to cut out and play the suggested alphabet game but also the 2 additional boards for an adult word game and back board to create toys which are typically missing as are often the colour-tinted instruction sheets. Worldcat locates 4 copies U of WA & Princeton Incomplete Bibliotheque Nationale FR & Bibliotheque des Chiroux BE -- complete; See: Robert Bolick Books on Books Collection -- Souza Desnoyer and Marcelle Marquet Il etait une fois un alphabet 1951-2009 Dec. 22 2022. Imprimeurs L.I.E.S.A., 174, Quae de Jemmapes, hardcover
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1959ref. 62583London: Robert Hale Ltd. 1959. 8vo. 191 1 pp. Numerous photo plates. Burgundy-coloured publisher’s boards gilt lettering on spine minor foxing & dustsoiling to upper fore-edge of textblock occasional light foxing w/ d.j. cover art of Tiger by Val Biro slight dustsoiling shelfwear still a VG/NF copy. Second printing of this authoritative work on tiger hunting in the Game Departent of Gwalior State Madyhya Pradesh and Jaipur Rajasthan relating his sagas of tiger hunts hunting and killing cattle-stealing tigers man-eating tigers terrorizing villages as well as organizing hunts of the Maharaja’s along with King George V Lord Reading and Lord Mountbatten. Robert Hale, Ltd., hardcover
ref. 1638611181.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover