Hernekin Baptist (29 results)
Published by London: Cape, 1931. 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Black Voices, Liverpool, MSY, United KingdomBlack Voices
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First edition. Very good without d/w. The story of four women on an early voyage.
Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Fraying to the cloth along the edge of the front gutter, pencil ownership name of Brandt and Brandt, a noted New York literary agency, a good copy without dust jacket. Novel about four African women taken aboard a Portuguese trading vessel. *Blockson 5297*.
Published by Jonathan Cape, Ldn 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Larry W Price Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 256 pp., Map, Orig Brn Hardback, Gilt title, owner's nameplate F e.p., else VG in DJ with 1 inch nip out of Top, in protective plastic wrapper, 1st ed.
Published by Harpers Magazine 1932
- Softcover
- Periodical
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. No Illustrations; 6x9; 9 pages.
Published by Little Brown and Company, 1937 1937
- Hardcover
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.Indian Hills Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Near Fine. Stated First. A tiny bit of edge wear on the jacket. No tears or chipping. Color is fine and unfaded. Price intact.
Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third printing. A bit of soiling on the spine, modest overall wear, very good or better, lacking the dust jacket. Novel about four African women taken aboard a Portuguese trading vessel. *Blockson 5297*.
Published by Little, Brown and Company,, Boston: 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. Previous owner's name on front paste-down, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket.
Published by Cassell, London 1931
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- First Edition
Seller: Excalibur Books, Penzance, United KingdomExcalibur Books
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Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. "Novel of 4 Negresses left ashore at 4 different points of the African coast in the golden age of Portuguese pioneer achievement." 256 Pages. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by London etc. : Jonathan Cape 1931
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- First Edition
Seller: Barksdale Books, Almere, NetherlandsBarksdale Books
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Condition: Fair. First Edition. Original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo.; Badly foxed on cut and in particular the first pages.
Published by Little Brown 1937
- First Edition
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.My Book Heaven
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in about very good dustwrapper with small tears and rubbing, mostly along the edges of the spine.
Published by Harpers Magazine 1932
- Softcover
- Periodical
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.Hammonds Antiques & Books
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magazine. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. very good condition; SCARCE ORIGINAL VINTAGE ARTICLE; SCARCE ORIGINAL VINTAGE ARTICLE; NOVI006737; pages 7x10; 10 pages; Gold Lettering and design is still bright, with introductions and notes.
Published by Macmillan 1938
- Hardcover
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United KingdomCrappy Old Books
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Hardback. Condition: Good. A Cargo of Parrots (1938) by R. Hernekin Baptist Macmillan ? ISBN: none (pre-barcode, pre-nonsense) ? Condition: Good (spine with a jaunty list to starboard) Part travelogue, part caper, part ornithological stand-up routine, A Cargo of Parrots sails breezily through the between-the-wars world with a ho…ld full of feathers and opinions. R. Hernekin Baptist?whose name sounds perfectly invented even if it isn?t?ushers you from jungle edge to dockside, through customs sheds, shipping offices and clubs where the gin is tepid and the conversation is not. Every stop delivers a fresh chorus of squawks: parrots commenting on humanity in flawless mimicry, and humanity answering back in paperwork. Expect steamers, sidings, and the gentle thump of crates marked ?LIVE, DO NOT TIP,? which everyone immediately tips. Expect consuls who are never quite at their desks, quartermasters who have seen it all, and a narrator who suspects the parrots are running a more coherent operation than the shipping lines. The humour is dry enough to qualify as a climate; the observations land like postcards written in pencil during a thunderstorm. Somewhere between a comic report and a gentlemanly escapade, it?s the sort of tale that smells faintly of spilled ink, rope, and tropical rain that missed its appointment. Is it high literature? Perhaps not. Is it high entertainment? Absolutely?especially if your idea of a good time is watching bureaucracy and birds attempt to out-talk each other. The pages feel like dispatches from a world where maps are persuasive, timetables are optimistic, and parrots learn new phrases faster than officials stamp forms. This copy from Crappy Old Books is graded Good : clean, complete, and very much seaworthy. The spine is slightly slanted ?call it rakish, like a captain?s cap in a headwind. Shelves adore a bit of character; so do we. Binding sound, pages ready for voyage, parrots (regrettably) not included. File under: Travel & capers with feathers , Pre-war ports and post-hoc wisdom , and Things that talk back . Read it for the atmosphere, keep it for the voice, and display it for the title alone?which does an admirable job of announcing its intentions. Crappy Old Books: we ship books with stories, and stories with just enough tilt to prove they?ve been somewhere.
Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.Du Bois Book Center
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Printing, August 1931. 235pp. Dark tan cloth boards with title on spine. Slightly frayed crown and foot of spine. Historical Novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Published by Corbaccio - Dall'Oglio, Milano, Milano 1939
- Softcover
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Restivo Navarra, Enna, EN, ItalyStudio Bibliografico Restivo Navarra
Contact seller5-star sellerBrossura. (Categ. Letteratura straniera) - (In 16.mo cm. 13x19) - (Legatura : editoriale) - (pp. 376) - (Collana : Scrittori di tutto il mondo - n. 47) (39i). Trad. Maria Martone Napolitano. Privo della sopraccoperta, danni alla brossura.
Published by JOHN DAY, NEW YORK 1934
- Hardcover
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises
Contact seller4-star sellerHARD BACK BLACK. Condition: GOOD-. entire cover rubbed, corners bumped, deckled fore edges, book plate on fornt inner board, endpapers and boards are foxing, unmarked tanned text, pages clean and clear, good binding DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 347.
Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, NY 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.Du Bois Book Center
Contact seller4-star sellerCloth. Condition: Very Good+++. No Jacket. First Edition. 235pp. Tan cloth boards with title on spine. Gray top edges. Slightly cocked. PO's name on f.e.p. Historical Novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
More imagesPublished by The John Day Co., NY undated
- Hardcover
Seller: Reflection Publications, Madison, NH, U.S.A.Reflection Publications
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: Good. Black cloth hardcover with silver lettering, green top page edges, and dust jacket, 347 pages. Deeply moving and vivid novel taking place in South Africa. "Round this simple framework is built up a struture of pity, horror and beauty, massively convincing." It would be considered very good condition i…f it didn't have discolored endpapers and a tattered dust jacket.
Published by Edizioni Corbaccio, MILANO 1939
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, ItalyBiblioteca di Babele
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Condition: DISCRETO USATO. Scrittori di Tutto il Mondo ITALIANO Libro usato che potrebbe presentare segni di usura e del tempo. Possono esserci danni alla copertina. La rilegatura potrebbe essere allentata, ma l'integrità non è compromessa. Potrebbero esserci scritte, sottolineature ed evidenziazioni al testo. Le pagine potrebbe…ro presentare ingiallimento e fioritura come i tagli. La foto corrisponde al libro in vendita. Altre foto su richiesta. Numero pagine 376.
Published by London:Jonathan Cape 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: CHILTON BOOKS, SUDBURY, United KingdomCHILTON BOOKS
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1st ed. "Four negresses were taken aboard off the Guinea Coast on one of the pioneer voyages of the Portuguese.They were, it is recorded, to be well tended, richly dressed and left ashore at different points of the African coast as emissaries of trade and, presumably of Christian missionary enterprise: women, it was reasonably a…rgued, being less likely than men to be slain by savage tribes." Pp.256,map of Africa, small red stain to rear endpaper. Brown cloth,gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed. G+.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Octavo. 256pp. A near fine copy in a good dust jacket with a light stain on the front panel and some modest chipping. A novel: "Four negresses were taken aboard off the Guinea Coast on one of the pioneer voyages of the Portugese in the golden age of the…ir maritime achievement. They were, it is recorded, to be well tended, richly dressed, and left ashore at different points of the African coast as emissaries of trade. What follows in this book is an unofficial commentario and is in no way to be trusted by the seeker after facts.".
Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, LONDRA 1931
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, ItalyBiblioteca di Babele
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Condition: DISCRETO USATO. INGLESE Prefazione a cura dell'autore. Copertina usurata agli angoli, ai margini e alle estremità del dorso. Titoli dorati solo al dorso. Disegno in rilievo al piatto posteriore. Nota a matita alla controguardia posteriore e al frontespizio. Presente fioritura sparsa tra le pagine e ai tagli. Pagine be…n salde alla cerniera, con ampio margine, lievemente ingiallite, così come i tagli. Numero pagina 256.
Published by Jonathan Cape, OXFORD 1931
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, ItalyBiblioteca di Babele
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Condition: DISCRETO USATO. INGLESE Volume in lingua inglese. Coperta rigida e lievemente ingiallita dal tempo mostrante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini con abrasioni agli stessi ed al dorso. Pagine fruibili anche se brunite dal tempo in particolare ai tagli. Numero pagine 256.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. [ex-department store library book, but marked as such only by multiple small library and "withdrawn" stamps on both pastedowns and endpapers, and with so little wear as to suggest that nobody ever actually checked it out and read it; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, wit…h a few small tears, a rough surface-peeled spot near base of spine, a tiny stain on the front panel, and a vintage price-sticker (from City of Paris, San Francisco) on the rear flap]. "To the three rapidly maturing daughters of Pastor Oguey, isolation in a small mountain parish in South Africa meant the slow, relentless frustration of all the natural impulses. Mr. Baptist lives in South Africa. Because he knows its power over white men, he makes the reader feel the primitive, inscrutable, relentless strength of the African country almost as a visible presence." The book's essential topic is "the problem of miscegenation, but only of the mind" (as a contemporary reviewer put it), as the eldest of the three daughters "feels that terrible things have happened to her in her thoughts," and is determined to save her younger sisters from what was once melodramatically called "a fate worse than death." Unfortunately, her "twisted and thwarted and frustrated thinking," combined with the abstraction of her remote, scholarly father (who's engrossed in translating the Bible into the native language), eventually drives her mad. All the jacket blurb offers about the author is that "he lives in South Africa." That much was true, except for the "he" part: "R. Hernekin Baptist" was actually a pseudonym used by Ethelreda Lewis (most famous as the "as told to" author of the "Trader Horn" memoirs) for a handful of novels she wrote during the 1930s, of which this was the last. (She died in 1946.) Her previous "Baptist" book, "A Cargo of Parrots," had been a finalist in a novelette contest sponsored by Little, Brown & Co. in 1937. Illustrated by (dj drawing) E.E. Anthony (illustrator).
Published by Jonathan Cape, London 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, , FranceSan Francisco Book Company
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, mylar wrapped, 265 pp, dj worn, cover edges worn. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.
Language: English
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, , IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 322. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1938 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 322.
Language: English
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, , IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 196. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1937 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 196.
More imagesPublished by Faber and Faber, London 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United KingdomLeakey's Bookshop Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 347. Original cloth. Unclipped d/w. Shelf wear & bruising of the corners. Extensive foxing. The unclipped d/w is worn, creased and torn with losses. It also has extensive selotape repairs and selotape residues to the inner surface.
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Seller: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, , IndiaGyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
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Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…ends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1937. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 196, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 196 196.
