Commander V Lovett Cameron (4 results)

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 384pp. Cover in brown yellow and gold shows lion menacing 2 natives. Average wear, spine a little rubbed and worn at head and foot. A.w.cooper (illustrator).

8vo; ornate pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and a little bumped at head and tail of spine; previous owner's name on front free endpaper; inscription on half-title page reading: "J. Boyd Varty; III Prize York School; Xmas 1888"; tissue-guarded frontispiece; black-and-white illustrations; pp. 384; foxing and browning to endpapers and scattered throughout; small stain to edge; front hinge starting. Good condition. Novel of adventure set in Central and East Africa. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. A swashbuckler from the past. A rare book . A nick on the front cover Prev. owners name in ink. Otherwise sound, clean and tight . Very good shape for a 117 year old book.

Verney Lovett Cameron was an intrepid explorer in Central Africa who was the first European (1875) to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. He entered the Royal Navy and was employed for a considerable time in the suppression of the East African Slave trade. A tight, clean very nice copy with hardly any rubbing. Only a tear and a small hole near the fore-edge of the free front endpaper which also has the previous owner's name in pencil written on the recto side. Also a couple of stains in the margins of pp. 2 and 3. Otherwise a very good to fine copy. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-3/8". 314 pp. Decorative pictorial cloth cover stamped in red black and gold. With black and white frontispiece illustration and spot illustration on title page. (illustrator).…