Jordan John Alfred (63 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with minor shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The covers have moderate wear and light soiling. The spine has what looks like foxing. There is light soiling to the page edges, the pages are clean and the binding is in good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. 128pp with b/w photos - red cloth - previous owner's inscription to first blank page - preliminary pages and edges of text block slightly foxed - dustwrapper is moderately rubbed and soiled - wear and chipping to edges with a few small losses.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 1st Edition. Hunting and Fishing; Africa. Library stamp, some tape.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1st US Ed. -[CAT. 49-201 & 63-321.] Jordan was an ivory poacher with many tales. Very Good-Fine no DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. As told to John Prebble. Green cloth titled in gilt on spine, b&w illstns. A small name and store stamp in front, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket is intact and bright, slight wear to corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Front Cover Painting: Paul Rabut; Interior Artists: Jack Dumas; John Styga; Sam Bates; Sandy Kossin; (illustrator). ARGOSY Men Adventure Magazine Volume 347, #5 (November /1958; Popular Publications;) Front Cover Painting: Paul Rabut; 114 pages including covers; Writers: Dickey Chappelle; Oscar Fraley; Thorp McClusky; Henry Jordan; Roul Tunley; Richard Gehman; Milt Machlin; Robert Edmond Alter; Mike Miller; Robert G. Fuller; Tom Burnam; Gene Caesar; Ormond Gigli; Harry Steeger; Gerald McCann; Pete Kuhlhoff; Alfred Sheinwold; Interior Artists: Jack Dumas; John Styga; Sam Bates; Sandy Kossin; *** Book Order # ADV9155; Condition= VG/FN (5.0) = VERY GOOD to FINE; (Above Average Used Condition) Distributors ink at upper left edge Price=US$25.00); Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus. Book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. As told to John Prebble. Pictorial covers, b&w photo illstns. Light wear to spine, foxing in edges and endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1959). 1959 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp128. B/w photographs & line drawings. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. School library stamps, foxing, edges browned - good only in laminated dust-wrapper. The autobiography of "Mongaso, the man who is always moving." Jordan was an adventurer and hunter who travelled extensively throughout Africa in the early years of the twentieth century. He was obsessed with the search for the Elephant Stone, a "precious gem to be had (so the natives said) from the skull of a tuskless bull elephant." .

248 pages, photographs, woodcuts : famous white hunter tells his story to John Prebble, a story of crocodile killing, ivory poaching, hunting leopard-men, and general mayhem in East and South Africa, Czech page 147 "hunting elephants, lions, buffalo and other game. He also details the experiences of other hunters"; hardback vg, almost vg dw (a few chips to edges & a little loss) africa general big game hunting east afrca elephant crocodile hunting hunter big game african safari lion hunting.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sharon Okamoto (Jacket Design); John Mulholland & Alfred Eisenstadt (Jacket Photos); Patricia Cadley (Picture Editor) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 176 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Book shows heavy use, but still a good reading copy with clean text. Dust jacket shows wear and rips along the front and back. Damage to front cover board near bottom edge.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1959). 1959 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp128. B/w photographs & line drawings. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Front inner hinge broken but repaired with tape o/w a good copy in rubbed price-clipped dust-wrapper. The autobiography of "Mongaso, the man who is always moving." Jordan was an adventurer and hunter who travelled extensively throughout Africa in the early years of the twentieth century. He was obsessed with the search for the Elephant Stone, a "precious gem to be had (so the natives said) from the skull of a tuskless bull elephant." .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. boards are edge worn, chipped and knocked. tanning, foxing and marks. ownership inscription. well bound. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sharon Okamoto (Jacket Design); John Mulholland & Alfred Eisenstadt (Jacket Photos); Patricia Cadley (Picture Editor) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 176 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly slanted spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. boards are shelf rubbed and a bit soiled. tanning and foxing. gift inscriptions. fair binding and condition. [S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

128 pages, drawings, photographs : his experiences, as told to George Leith, of a wandering life in (mainly) East Africa - loner, hunter, poacher, known to the natives as "Mongaso"; hardback, vg vg dw east africa big game hunting poacher hunting east africa big game hunting hunter.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 248 pages. Dj worn. Dj chipped. Text foxed.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardback. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Edition. fairly clean but rather worn ex library book. DW had been protected and is clean and bright but with long crease at base (where previously folded). Some damage to edge of front flap (no text loss).

Nicholas Kaye, London 1959. 128 pp. Publisher's cloth, no jacket. Owner signature. Illustrated. Fine condition.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. As told to George Leith. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine, red top edges, b&w illstns. Very tidy, just a few tiny scattered rust dots in endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed/small tears to corners, unfaded, protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. the jacket is shelf rubbed and chipped. foxing and marks. all pages are clear and intact. fairly good copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Aceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Pobre. 1? Edición. 1ª Edición. (Viajes. Caza. Africa). Col. Herakles. Serie C - Cacerías. Traducción de Julio F. Yañez. 304 p. 2 h. Mapa y dibujos b7n en el texto. Láminas f.t. con fotos b/n. 8º. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Ésta con alguna pequeña pérdida en márgenes. Muy buen ejemplar. Primera edición en castellano.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Beacon Paperback Edition. Book is in fair condition with some wear and marking, age toning of pages. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 27.5. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50546.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo. Sin Sobrecubierta. 2ª Edición. EDICION VINTAGE, DE LA DE 1959. SAFARIS EN KENYA Y TANGANYKA. EN MONGASO, JOHN ALFRED JORDAN NARRA SUS MEMORIAS DE CAZADOR EN EL CORAZÓN DE AFRICA, CON SUS AVENTURAS Y PELIGROS.VIVIDAS POR EL AUTOR EN LOS DÍAS EN QUE LA CAZA EN ÁFRICA CONSTITUÍA UNA GRAN AVENTURA DE LA QUE MUCHOS NO REGRESABAN. AMIGO DE LAS TRIBUS MASAI Y WANDEBORO, BURLADOR CONSTANTE DE LAS LEYES DE PROTECCIÓN DEL ELEFANTE, PERSEGUIDO POR LAS PATRULLAS GERMANAS, CAZADOR DEL «LEÓN-DIABLO», BUSCADOR DE LA «PIEDRA DEL ELEFANTE» Y GRAN TRIUNFADOR FRENTE A LOS LEGENDARIOS «HOMBRES-LEOPARDO», LA VIDA DE ALFRED JORDAN SE DESARROLLA EN UNA CONSTANTE AVENTURA, QUE SOBRECOGE Y APASIONA. REPETIR SU AVENTURA SERÍA HOY IMPOSIBLE. SU ÁFRICA HA PASADO YA A LA LEYENDA. Autor: JORDAN, JOHN ALFRED, Edición: SEGUNDA, Editorial: HISPANO EUROPEA, Encuadernación: CARTONE CON DIBUJO, Páginas: 304, Prólogo:

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket a trifle rubbed. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Hunting and Fishing; Africa. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 18576.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. (Viajes. Caza. Africa). Barcelona, Editorial Hispano Europea, 1959. Col. Herakles. Serie C - Cacerías. Traducción de Julio F. Yañez. 304 p. 2 h. Mapa y dibujos b7n en el texto. Láminas f.t. con fotos b/n. 8º. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Ésta con alguna pequeña pérdida en márgenes. Muy buen ejemplar. Primera edición en castellano.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Excelente. Sin Sobrecubierta. 1ª Edición. 1959. Jordan narra sus memorias de cazador, vividas en los días en que la caza en Africa constituía una gran aventura de la que muchos no regresaban. Amigo de las tribus masai y wandeboro, burlador constante de las leyes de protección del elefante, perseguido por las patrullas germanas, cazador del «león-diablo», buscador de la «piedra del elefante» y gran triunfador frente a los legendarios hombres-leopardo. Repetir su aventura sería hoy imposible. Su áfrica ha pasado ya a la leyenda. Autor: JORDAN, JOHN ALFRED, Edición: PRIMERA, Editorial: HISPANO EUROPEA, Encuadernación: TELA, Páginas: 304, Prólogo:

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