Ben S Boyce (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 125 pages. Shelf wear, some discoloring to the pages; stamp inside the back cover; a good book. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 185837.

Condition: Good. W.D. Boyce Company 1928 8vo. 124 pages. black cloth boards moderately worn with rubbing. light foxing and handsoiling to text pages. binding tight. G+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover shows some fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 125 pp., Photos, Color Map e.p., Blk Hardback, Gilt chipped in title else VG, no DJ, 1st ed (Neat).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. DEAR DAD LETTERS FROM NEW GUINEA ILLUSTRATED BY BEN S. BOYCE 1928. I am pleased to offer an interesting chronicle of a young man s expedition to the wilds of then Papua New Guinea which at the time was under a custodianship mandate by Australia. Visiting the area was considered quite dangerousthere were still unknown tribes in the wilds there, many of them apparently practicing cannibalism! One of the terms of his visit was that he post a weekly letter recounting his experiences to his father who was a newspaper publisher in Chicago and who would see to it that the letters were published. This book is a compilation of those letters published posthumously after the son died at the young age of 43, in 1928. The four-month expedition, in the company of seasoned New Guinea hands, took place before the onset of World War I although the exact dates are not mentioned in the book. Please find then: Illustrated Dear Dad Letters from New Guinea, by Ben S. Boyce. This medium-sized but relatively thin hard cover book (6 x 8 ¾ inches, 125 pages) was published by the W.D. Boyce Company of Chicago, dated 1928 (his father s publishing company). The book is bound in handsome black cloth with bright gilt titles on the cover. As mentioned, the book is well illustrated with b&w photos from the expedition throughout and some color maps of Papua New Guinea and the Region at the rear endpaper. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The gilt titles and framing on the front cover are very slightly worn but still fine and handsome. Inside, the book is unmarked and the pages and photos are clean and bright throughout. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (1928). 125 pages. Inscribed (not by author) to Harry E. Chrisman, a noted writer and western historian. Fine. (082).

Hardcover. xviii, 125p., presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock, profusely illustrated with b&w photos taken on-site in unmapped New Guinea, hardbound in black cloth boards titled and ruled in gilt. Rear endsheets are doublespread maps in colors. Front endsheets appear to be constituted of a cancel onlay that emphasizes the memorial function of this issue; p.125 may also be a cancel/insert. Condition: several inches of the gold title-border have flaked away, there is edgewear of extremities, but hinges are good, the text clean and unmarked. A good toi very good copy. The Boyce company advertises other items it publishes, even on this title page itself, namely "The Blade and Leger, Extra Money, Movie Romances, Illustrated South America". &c &c. The probable triviality of these other books need not impugn the item in hand, which is quite interesting; the deceased had a knack for people of every sort. He died young (and sorely missed) of an embolism.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In memorium bookplate inscribed to Central Illinois Wochenblatt, and signed by the author's father, W.D. Boyce. Good. No dust jacket. Gilt titling on front cover a bit rubbed, though still quite legible. Binding is sound and there are no ownership marks. Bottom corners of pages 61-66 creased and wrinkled. Aside from that and a bit of yellowing to page margins, contents in good shape. Illustrated with B&W photos, including double-spread at front of book. …

Hardcover. 124p. Black cloth. A hard cover in acceptable condition. The cloth covering on spine of the book is ripping. The front cover is faded. The cloth on the corners are beginning to rip. Tears are beginning to form on the inside hinges. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Includes several b/w photographs and illustrations. A collection of letters from a son to his father. At the time they were written, exploration of New Guinea was forbidden. The island was too dangerous. However, Ben Boyce was given permission to do so on the agreement that he would write a letter once a week during his expedition. These letters would be publilshed in a newspaper called the Chicago Saturday Blade.…

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Jacket is worn and chipped along edges. Half-inch tear from top edge of jacket back cover along back cover hinge. Jacked is rubbed and smudged, but text is bright. Cover corners and spine edges are lightly worn and bumped. Binding is secure. Pages are lightly tanned along edges, but text is clean and unmarked.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: VERY GOOD+ WITHOUT D.J. FIRST EDITION. DOCUMENTS OF THE PRE-WORLD WAR I "BOYCE EXPEDITION" TO PAPUA / FATHER'S REMEMBRANCE PUBLISHED AFTER HIS SON'S AUGUST 1928 DEATH PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE FRONT COVER. OTHER THAN SOME PERISHING OF THE FRONT COVERS BORDER LINE ALONG THE SPINE, AN EXCELLENT CLEAN COPY. This expedition occured in the time between 1908 when Australian W.H.P. Murray was Governor of Papua and the beginning of the First World War when in 1915 he joined the Red Cross as ambulance driver for the French Army, when he would have been in his mid to late 20s. His father, a Chicago publisher of "The Blade" died the year after his son's death.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and borders to front. Fold-out print of photograph of original Boyce expedition pasted to inside front cover by publisher. Color maps to back endpaper and inside back cover. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. xviii,125pp.…

Cloth. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Chicago, IL: W. D. Boyce Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1928). . Cloth. 8vo., 125 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, page foxing & toning . Black & White Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, bound in full black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on front cover. Some loss to gilt at border. Toning and foxing throughout interior. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Illustrated end pages. ; 8vo. 8 3/4"h x 6"w. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. pp.xviii+125. 21.5cm. Frontis portrait. Black and white photographic illustrations in the text. Double page black and white photo plate on front end papers. Colour maps on lower end papers. Hard covers (no dj). Upper cover lettered in gilt. Spine plain. Slight wear of the gilt on the upper cover. A good clean copy The account, in the form of letters, of the Boyce Expedition to New Guinea (early 1920s?) in the company of and led by Resident Magistrate Richard Humphries, and with Merlin Moore Taylor (author of: 'Where Cannibals Roam').…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xv, 125pp, bw ills (one folding, rear endpaper map. Or green cloth titled and bordered in gilt. Gilt border rubbed in places otherwise a nice copy. A very interesting collection of letters from a son to his father while on an expedition to New Guinea. Also includes some material on service with the A.E.F. during WWI. Size: 8vo.…

Hard cover. Condition: As New. No dustjacket. First edition. A bright, fresh, unused copy. A fascinating look into the land of the head hunter and cannibal, and the wilds of New Guinea. The author died on the expedition. With photos throughout. "A collection of letters from a son to his father. At the time they were written, exploration of New Guinea was forbidden. The island was too dangerous. However, Ben S. Boyce was given permission to do so on the agreement that he would write a letter once a week during his expedition. These letters would be published in a newspaper called the Chicago Saturday Blade. The author's father, William Dickson Boyce (June 16, 1858 ? June 11, 1929) was an American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer. He was the founder of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the short-lived Lone Scouts of America (LSA). Boyce was so saddened over his son's death that his own health suffered, which led to his own death shortly after. Rarely offered in this nice condition.…

First Edition. Tall 8vo. 124, [1] pp. Photographic illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering to front cover; color map endpapers at rear; photo-illustration of the original Boyce expedition inside front cover, in cream dustjacket with black lettering. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light wear to extremities; minor spotting to front cover). The author was the son of William D. Boyce, American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, explorer and founder of the Boy Scouts of America and the short-lived Lone Scouts of America. Ben Boyce had a single-minded focus to travel to New Guinea and solicited his father's influence to secure the permissions required to the island considered too dangerous for visitors. In exchange, he promised to write his father a letter once a week during the expedition; the letters were to be published in the Chicago Saturday Blade newspaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HC/DJ in mylar protective wraps; black boards with gilt lettering and boarding to cover. No shelf-wear. B/W Photo Illustrated end papers at front; Color mapped end papers at rear. MINT EXTERIOR/INTERIOR. Second fly-leaf has a personal typed and in publishers lettering message to prev. owner "To Mr. William W. Crooke' In memory of Ben S. Boyce - W.D. Boyce Co." sem-attached. B/E Photo Frontis of Ben s. Boyce. Includes several b/w photographs and illustrations. A collection of letters from a son to his father. At the time they were written, exploration of New Guinea was forbidden. The island was too dangerous. However, Ben S. Boyce was given permission to do so on the agreement that he would write a letter once a week during his expedition. These letters would be published in a newspaper called the Chicago Saturday Blade. DJ is in FINE condition; some very minor rubbing to edges, in mylar. 124pp [1 page]. 8vo. --B.R. Box 93.…

8vo. pp. 124, [1]. illus. (incl. frontis. portrait). illus. & colour maps on endpapers. cloth. Near fine copy. Printed Presentation Slip from the Publisher. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by W. D. Boyce on a glued down paper that reads "To Thos A. Ferguson In Memory of Ben S. Boyce W. D. Boyce" on the free front endpaper. The book is in very good condition without jacket. First Edition. W. D. Boyce is the founder of the American Boy Scouts of America. Signed by Father of Author.…

First Edition. Tall octavo, original black cloth with gilt lettering, illustrated with photograph and map at endpapers, photgraphic illustrations throughout. Descriptive letters sent by a traveler to New Guinea to his father, a newspaper editor. Signed by author's father at front endpaper. Boyce would die during the expedition. Near Fine with modest foxing, in a Good dustjacket, few small chips to edges and corners, soiling and spotting.…