April 2015 Catalog 2
Yesterday’s Muse Books APRIL 2015 CATALOG 2 1. [Adventure; Africa] Johnson, Martin Lion: African Adventure with the King of Beasts Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1929. ix, 281 pp. 1931 5th printing. 8vo. Black & white photographic plates. A firsthand account of time spent in Africa along Lake Paradise, by the author of Safari and co-author of I Married Adventure. Martin Johnson and his wife Osa were accomplished travelers who spent a great deal of time in Africa and other exotic locales during the early twentieth century. Very good. Spine a bit faded, corners lightly rubbed. $15 2. [Adventure; Polar Expeditions] Welzl, Jan; Weatherall, M. & R.; Golombek, Bedrich; Valenta, Edvard The Quest for Polar Treasures New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition. 352 pp. 8vo. An arctic travelogue by the man also known as Eskymo Welzl and Arctic Bismarck. Welzl was an outdoorsman and a gold prospector, and served as Chief Justice on the island of New Siberia. He also wrote Thirty Years in the Golden North. Very good, good jacket. Jacket rubbed with minor loss along edges, jacket edges faded & spotted, jacket flap corners $45 trimmed. Some pages unopened. 3. [American History; Frederick Douglass; Abolition] Thompson, J.W. An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument: Biographical Facts and Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglass - His Death at Anacosta, D.C., and Funeral at Washington, D.C., and Rochester, N.Y., together with Portraits and Illustrations of Important Incidents of the Four Years’ Struggle to Complete the Work. Rochester: Rochester Herald Press, 1903. First edition. 204 pp.
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