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Condition: acceptable. This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. The dust jacket is missing. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

Condition: Acceptable. Has tearing. Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Triangle Books Ed. May 1946, Good, owner's name front page, 399 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: acceptable. The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Book Club Edition/Book of the Month Club. A good hardcover copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but is mildly age-toned. Black colored hardcovers are very good (clean, no edge wear). Dust jacket is clean but has edge wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Rubbing and fading to boards. Bumping along edges of boards. Spine creases. Light sunning to boards. Browning throughout. Fore edges are muffed. Foxing to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rpt. HC. Brown boards stamped in gold & dk brown. 399pp. Owners bkplt on ffep else G+. Light-mod. edge wear/crnr bumping/cv scratching. No DW. Tight; white leaves.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. 2nd impression. 447p., 21 cm. book is clean and tight some light edge wear, no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Literature, Fiction, Historical fiction, Boer War) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Presumed First Edition. Looseness at the title page. Edge wear all around. Residue of tape center front cover top and bottom. Pages clen. About the book: n attempt to do a South Wind against the sultry background of the Congo, with its beauty and its ugliness and its poison eating into the souls of the odd assortment of exiled Europeans gathered together. There is Bentinok, ostensibly store-keeper and hotel keeper, actually secret service man for the British; there is Channel, an abortionist who was found out, a philosopher-scientist-doctor-observer and commentator (at great length) on life. There is Sebastian, another Frenchman, a mad artist, ridden by his passions. There is Marais, Dutchman, dealing in dredging machinery (and receiving an extraordinary number of ""replacements"" and ""parts""). There is Van Brandt, Nazi cock-o'-the-walk, who poached on Sebastian's preserves, and who was one of the many lovers of the beautiful nymphomaniac, Olga, wife of the professor who was experimenting in rubber. Olga had a streak of perversion, evidenced in her devotion to the almost full grown gorilla, Congo, which she had nursed at her breast, and the pet snake she kept to hold Congo in check. Into this group comes Wilson -- half English, half American, sent to help Bentinok by Fraser, director of secret service in Africa. Wilson gets caught in the toils of Olga, too, and Bentinok dies, victim of a poisoned animal trap, before he has given Wilson the threads of the complex mesh of Nazi infiltration. So -- as war comes -- Marais reveals himself as the brains behind the scene, gives Van Brandt his orders -- and then both are caught by circumstances entirely outside the web they thought they controlled. Van Brandt is caught in a burning quicksand, Marais is killed by Congo, in a fit of jealousy, which costs also his own life and that of Olga's professor and his secretary. So at the close, Olga and Wilson, convinced that her past is past, and the future theirs, return to civilization. A strange book, with the makings of a good tale of espionage, or a morbid tale of passion in the tropics, turned out of both paths by perversion, and slowed down in pace by the tendency on the part of several of the characters, to air their philosophies to the listener. Kirkus.

Condition: Very Good. 1776682974. 4/20/2026 11:02:54 AM.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1955. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O address label on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Fair: Price Clipped; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; missing pieces at upper tips, spine and part of the rear board; chipping at tail. Tan boards and spine with dark brown shadowbox on the spine and decorations on the front board. Maps as endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 400 pp 8vo. This is a story of South Africa. The author, a prolific writer on South Africa, writes now of a year's travel, accompanied by his wife, from the Cape to the deserts of the north. In this we face the paradoxes of the Dark Continent, hear the testimony of emirs and missionaries, of career diplomats and native doctors, and see that the overwhelming problem of education of the African people towers above all the other challenges of this uneasy land. He set out to find how capable was the black man and what has the white man achieved in South Africa. The answer is left up to the reader. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- (An African Adventure) --- Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.--- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- --- It was dusk. The pale lilac dusk of the African evening. In the distance low red clouds of dust moved toward the kraals and stables. The animals, driven by their herders, were coming in. Horses, cattle, sheep and goats, each according to their kind. . .(Made into a movie in 1961). . .See photos for additional content. . .

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Popular Library 110. Lamination beginning to lift from cover edges.