The Kenya Police by Foran (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. A UK first edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright and complete. It has been clipped. The front panel is worn at the edges and is lightly marked to the main body. The spine is unfaded - it is scuffed at the ends. The back panel is bright - the top edge is gently worn. Looks sharp in protective plastic. THE BOOK : The book is square and tight. The boards are clean. The corners are sharp. There is a touch of trivial bruising to the spine ends. The pages are clean. No foxing. The closed page edges are sound. No dog-eared or loose pages. The binding is solid - no cracked hinges. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A decent copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, pp360 + 24 pages of Hutchinson & Co publications to rear, complete with Foreword by Lord Cranworth, 46 pages of b/w photographic plates by the author and others and map endpapers of Kenya And Uganda. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine in very good condition with a little bumping to tips, shelf wear to top & tail of spine, with tiny split top of spine, and some old glass rings to front board. Inside small amount of foxing to prelims and a little yellowing to pages, otherwise all pages and plates in very good condition. A very nice copy of Foran's recollections of the early days of the Kenya colony under British rule. Very Scarce 1st Edition.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo xvi + 237pp., b/w pls., maps, appendix, index, Some use & several small institutional stamps o/w VG copy of a scarce title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1962 hardcover with dust jacket. the book is in very good condition clean, square and tight. slight fading to top and bottom of spine edges. dust jacket is clean and bright but as can be seen from the photos, has tears, chips and bumps with some loss. some of the larger tears have had acid free tape applied, dust jacket fair only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xiii, 237pp, photos, map, list of officers. Author was a historian and author and also served with them. Clean and tight in medium wear, small missings, unclipped wrapper. 700g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1962. xvi + 237pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, silver gilt lettering on spine. Teal dust jacket with b/w illustration on front cover. Very good. Includes 68 b/w photo illustrations, 2 double-spread b/w maps. Very clean within. Very good.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 237pp Laid in are six vintage photographs of the Police - group and individual shots. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover).

15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Frontispiece, 360 pages. 119 monochrome photographs on 47 plates, including frontispiece. Maps of Kenya on pastedowns and endpapers. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Slightly bumped and rubbed. Very minor staining to front board. Binding still firm and strong. Minor foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean. Very Rare, rather scarce publication ! Irishman's account of life as a colonial police officer in British East Africa between 1904-1910. Includes, for example, the following chapters: Nairobi - The Pioneer Town / A Pseudo-Settler / North-West to Kidumu / Bubonic Plague / Wars, and Rumours of Wars / Myita - The "Isle of War" / Mombasa Days / Kiambu / The Kisii Rebellion. William Robert Foran (18811968) was a British Army officer, big game hunter and travel writer. Foran trained at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and achieved the rank of Major during the Second Boer War. He travelled from Johannesburg to Mombasa, Kenya in 1904, and then to the newly founded city of Nairobi to buy land for farming. While in Nairobi, Foran was recruited by the British East Africa Police, becoming one of its six original officers. Foran distinguished himself as a Big Game hunter and wrote many articles and books about his adventures and travels. He worked as a travel writer for the National Geographic Society. As a noted hunter and writer, Foran was attached to visiting dignitaries such as Theodore Roosevelt and the Duke and Duchess of York, on their highly publicised hunting safaris. (Edward Steinhart, 'Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya' p.82) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 360p octavo illustrated. An exlibrary copy evidenced by a sticker crudely removed from spine but with no internal markings. A very good copy in green cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With 32 pages photo plates and two maps. Author, Hunter, Poacher and world traveler Robert Foran was one of the pioneer police officers in Kenya colony. Here he relates the colorful history of Kenya Police with several incidents from his own experiences as a police officer there at the turn of the last century when Kenya was still a virgin land. Beautifully written, this work is considered to be the best account of the history of East African police force during the colonial period. Unfortunately, all that changed dramatically after the country became independent. Hard cover, 237 pages with index, a nice, tight and clean volume with light foxing on some pages. Overall very good book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Major W. Robert Foran himself was one of the earliest members of the Kenya Police, but world travel and big game hunting took him away from it. In this book, he explores the history and achievement and the early struggles of the Kenya Police force in detail. Illustrated with b/w photographs. The authors signature in blue ink on a white slip is affixed on the inside cover; comes with the original lightly chipped dust jacket, 237 pages with index. Signed by Author(s).

1st Edn. xvi 237 pages, b/w illus from photographs and map, below the photo of Moyale Police Station 1960 to blank margin "This was my office in 1958-59 . tipped onto rear blank end paper illus of Kenya Police Patrol, publishers blue cloth title in silver, vg in dj. light surface rubbing to edges, although not a hunting title Robert Foran was a big game hunter and early member of the Kenya Police, he relates the history and achievement of the Kenya Police.

1936 London, 1st edn, 360pp, photos, end paper maps. Foreword by Lord Cranworth. Recollections by Robert Foran in the early days of the Kenya colony during which he took many trips into the backcountry when various luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Lord Delamere and Sir Fredrick Jackson visited the colony. One of the scarcest Foran titles he wrote a number of African titles that are all collectible. Although not a hunting title, very informative about Foran's adventures, police work, and the functioning and comings and goings of the Kenya Colony as it was under British rule. A very good copy, a few pencil markings.

First edition, first impression, of Foran's vivid narrative covering the years 1904 to 1910; a scarce book, particularly difficult to find in the jacket. Foran (1881-1968), trained at Sandhurst and served in the Second Boer War, first with the Imperial Yeomanry and then the Somerset Light Infantry. In 1904 he arrived in Nairobi and was one of the six original officers of the British East Africa Police. An avid big game hunter, he wrote several books on the subject, as well as the first published history of the Kenya police. "The interface between police work and hunting would involve Foran in several hunting and game preservation activities early in his police career. He would be [involved] during his first years as a Kenyan policeman to do game control work This meant that Foran was called upon to kill rogue animals, field raiders, and other dangerous game - especially lions - that interfered with the work of settlement and cultivation. He would also be involved, as early as 1906, in police operations against ivory poachers In his official capacity as a police officer, as well as because of his reputation as a sportsman, Foran was attached to visiting dignitaries such as Theodor and Kermit Roosevelt, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, on their highly publicized hunting safaris" (Steinhart, p. 82). Provenance: D. M. Griffith-Jones, inscribed on the half-title and dated April 1937. This is almost certainly a relative of Sir Eric Griffith-Jones (1913-1979), Attorney General of Kenya from 1955 to 1961; possibly the Miss D. M. Griffith-Jones who was made a senior companion of the Royal Commonwealth Society in 1959. Edward I Steinhart, Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya, 2006. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece and 118 illustrations on 46 plates, all from photographs. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, map endpapers. With dust jacket. Neat ownership stamp of one I. P. Wookey on front free endpaper. Spine sunned at very ends; jacket spine sunned and lightly stained, nicks, chips, and closed tears, a little staining to front panel: a very good copy in a good jacket.