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1978Broché. 359 pages.
1950Broché. 128 pages.
1988Broché. 199 pages.
1936Cartonné. 91 pages.
1942Broché. 122 pages.
1962240p. Drawings by Mary Baucher. Inked ownership of Ira H. Frantz, March, 1963. Map endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket, slightly creased and rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. Brethren memoirs. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED. RELIGION BOX 11
1961xvi, 498 + Plus photographs. Text maps and charts. Inked underlings. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn at edges. AFRICA/5
1929pp. xiii, 281 + Plus frontis, numerous full page photographs and a large folding map. Title page printed in red and black. Bookplate. Inner hinge cracked. Decorative endpapers. Large 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Third impression. AFRICA/2
1960385p. + Plus photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Inked ownership of Emilie Latimer. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight tear without loss. AFRICA/3 + AFRICA/2 Lacks DJ
1962pp. vii, 204. Charts. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Spine and top edge faded. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 6
1989No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 172pp. An account of the depraved regime of Idi Amin in Uganda in the late 1970s where murder, torture, imprisonment and mutilation were standard methods used on anyone he wanted to by Amin who had been humiliated by the Israeli's Entebbe Raid. The story is told by Wycliffe Kato who had been Assistant Director General of Civil Aviation at the time of his arrest and imprisonment. He tells of his time in custody and how he managed to escape to Nairobi. Very scarce.
2004Sono ormai quasi vent'anni che il Nord Uganda è sconvolto da una feroce guerriglia. Imboscate, saccheggi, rapimenti e orribili menomazioni turbano in continuazione la vita dei villaggi nella savana. In questo drammatico scenario, nel 1984 p. Alfonso Poppi, è nominato parroco di Palabek nel distretto di Kitgum. Lì incontra Santo, uno dei più attivi catechisti della parrocchia. Le lettere qui raccolte sono una testimonianza della profonda amicizia che d'allora in poi legherà Santo al missionario italiano. Autori: Santo Okot, Alfonso Poppi.
in-12, V-302 pages, broche, couv. Bon état général. [NAN-1] Avec 16 gravures hors texte et une carte.
in-8°, 275 pp., tres nombreuses illustrations sepia in et hors-texte, carte couleurs hors-texte, broche, couv., jaquette illustree. Bel exemplaire (accrocs a la jaquette). [PH-2]
in-8°, 327 pages, illustrations, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [FRA-2]
in-12°, 99 pp., broche, couv.- RARE. Bel exemplaire. [NV-38]
1902In two volumes. Only vols. I. An attempt to give some description of the phisical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under the British protection in east central Africa…. Disponiamo solo del primo volume. In 4to, cm. 20x25; pag. XIX + 470, con 42 illustrazioni a colori, 7 mappe, 253 illustrazioni in bianco e nero. Splendide sguardie illustrate a colori, bell'ex libris " Thomae N. Dick Lauder 1901", applicato al contropiatto anteriore. Legatura editoriale in tutta tela nera con impressione a rilievo e dorata sul piatto, titoli al dosrso, tagli dorati. Ottima la conservazione. Codice inv.1030654
1976100 pages. Features: The Rhynchostylis; Orchid Collecting in Uganda; African Epiphytic Orchids - An Annotated Guide to the Literature; Cool Orchids in a "Dungeon" - Fluorescent Light Orchid Culture; Angraecum, Neofinetia and Jumellea - Collector's Item; spathoglottis plicata; Indian Orchids - Note on Conservation; Exquisit Orchids from western Ghats (India) II- Rhynchostylis retusa; Honors Given to Noted Orchidist - Emma D. Menninger; Orchids Somehow Survive!; Rapid Vegetative Muliplication of Epidendrum O'brienianum in vitro and in the greehnouse. Light signs of handling. Book
1969Features include: intersterility as a taxonomic criterion; Coelogyne sparsa - Collector's item; Polystachya and the last traces of empire - orchids of Uganda; How to realize the supreme joy of raising orchids; growing orchids under controlled pH conditions; Disa uniflora and its hybrids - South Africa's Wonder Orchid. Crease to bottom corner of front cover. Small tear to top of back cover. Please note: a chunk has been cut from back cover. Book
1969Features: Masdevallia caloptera - Collector's item; Greenhouse and artificial light culture of orchids compared; pH measurements in the greenhouse; a revision of the genus Phalaenopsis Blume - III; the "Now" trend in Paphiopedilum; Eulophias in Uganda - the orchids of Uganda. Well-worn. Unmarked. No tears. Book
1957Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
1957Features: Smoke Jumpers of Silver City - forest firefighters of the United States Forest Service; Buffalo Bull - a gripping story set in the wild Acholiland province of Uganda; Contraband Cruise - sten gun pirates terrorize Tangier's 'free-traders' on the Mediterranean; Search for the Sahara Stallion - a quest for a fabulous strain of horses; The Gold-Rush Murders - the most shocking crime the Yukon had ever seen; The Fang Men of Malaya - The Hairy Giants/Ape Men of the Malayan Jungles; I Had a Man Friday - I Know an Island, Part IX - Antigua; Struggle for Survival - a continuation of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' - adventure in the jungle of French Guiana; and more. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
1998Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
1929Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book