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The Bush Boys: Or the History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer in the Wild Karoos of Southern Africa
Reid, Mayne New York City, New York, USA G.P. Putnam's Sons 1896 Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket
; 388 pages; Nimrod Edition 1896; Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard; Seven additional illustrations; Textblock is tight with no names or marginalia; Small light mark on title page; Full-color illustrated endpapers; Top of textblock is light-yellow as originally published; Red cloth-covered boards with yellow-pattern on front board and spine; Title in black; Has modest shelf & edge wear including light wear to tips/top & tail of spine; .....('The Bush Boys' is packed with action and adventure for boys, and are a very good sampling of the great writing by the Irish-born author Captain Mayne Reid. The illustrations are very good, including the illustrated endpapers which are in color. The forty-eight chapters are entitled: The Boors, The Kraal, The Springhaan, A Talk About Locusts, The Locust-flight, Inspann and Trek, Water Water, The Fate of the Herd, A Lion Couchant, A Lion in the Trap, The Death of the Lion, A Talk About Lions, The Travellers Benighted, The Trek-boken, Spooring for a Spring, The Terrible Tsetse, The Lonn-horned Rhinoceros, A Heavy Combat, The Death of the Elephant, Turned Hunters, Jerking an Elephant, The Hideous Hyena, Stalking the Ourebi, Little Jan's Adventure, A Chapter Upon Hyenas, A House Among the Treetops, The Battle of the Wild Peacocks, Upon the Spoor, A Rogue Elephant, The Missing Hunter and the Wildebeests, The Ant-eater of Africa, Hans Chased By the Wildebeest, Besieged by the Bull, A Helpless Beast, The Elephant's Sleeping-Room, Making the Elephant's Bed, The Wild Asses of Africa, Planning the Capture of the Quagggas, The Pit-Trap, Driving in the Eland, A Wild Ride on Quagga-Back, The Gun-Trap, The Weaver-Birds, The Spitting-Snake, The Serpent-Eater, Totty and the Chacmas, The Wild Hounds and the Harte-Beest, Conclusion.)
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26.64 USD
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The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley
Reid, Mayne New York, New York White and Allen Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket
; 324 pages; No date, but is an older printing; Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard; Textblock is secure though with gutter exposure at page 32/32 & between back-free/back paste-down endpaper; (Front paste-down endpaper has a thin one-inch slit near bottom-right); Text has a few light marks, primarily on page 86/87, but no names or marginalia; Fore-edge is rough trimmed as published; Green cloth-covered, pictorial boards with title in gold to front board & spine; Has modest shelf wear including small nicks at top & tail of spine; ....(The author Mayne Reid is an Irish-American novelist who was famous for his adventure novels, and this novel features a romance in the Mexican Valley.)
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22.37 USD
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The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
Reid, Captain Mayne; Reid, Mayne New York City, New York E.P. Dutton & Co Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket
; 332 pages; Circa 1855; No edition indicated, an early printing; Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard, additional black & white plates; Book block is secure, though with gutter exposed at front & back between paste-down/free endpaper; Tanned pages with no names or marginalia; Deep-red cloth covered pictorial boards with title in light-yellow to front board, title in black on spine (illustration on front board & spine); Has edge wear including some rubbing, primarily to tips & spine; Spine is loose with wear (scraped/torn top-left of spine, botttom of spine covering is mostly loose, but still there, so you can still have it - and book is priced accordingly); .......(Captain Thomas Mayne Reid wrote many adventure novels, and he was an Irish-American novelist. 'The White Chief' was a successful novel.)
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12.51 USD
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The Young Voyageurs: Or the Boy Hunters in the North (The Knickerbocker Series)
Reid, Mayne; Reid, Captain Mayne New York City, New York, USA G.P. Putnam's Sons 1896 Hard Cover Very Good No Dust Jacket
; 392 pages; Nimrod Edition, 1896 printing; Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard; Additional illustrations; Textblock tight with gently tanned pages; Light erasure mark top of front paste-down/front-free endpaper; Color illustrated endpapers; Red cloth-covered, patterned boards with title in black on front board & spine; Has modest shelf & edge wear; .....(This adventure story was part of a series - the Knickerbocker series, with this adventure story being a grand journey through the 'fur' countries, where encounters are made with nearly all the wild creatures that inhabit a cold and desolate region. The chapter titles are: The Fur Countries, The Young Voyageurs, The Trumpeter Swan and Bald Eagle, The Swans of America, A Swan-Hunt by Torchlight, Cast-Away, A Bridge of Buckskin, Decoying the Goats, A Patridge Dance, Basil and the Bison-Bull, Three Curious Trees, How to Build a Bark Canoe, The Chain of Lakes, Wapiti Wolves and Wolverine, A Pair of Deep Divers, A Grand Sunday Dinner, The Marmots of America, The Blaireau Tawnies and Leopards, An Odd Sort of Decoy Duck, The Ducks of America, The Shrike and the Hummingbirds, The Fish Hawk, The Osprey and His Tyrant, The Voyage Interrupted, Fishing Under the Ice, An Odd Alarm, Encounter with a Moose, Life in a Log Hut, Travelling on Snow Shoes, The Barren Grounds, The Rock Tripe, The Polar Hare and Great Snowy Owl, The Jumping Mouse and the Ermine, The Arctic Fox and White Wolf, The Jerfalcon and the White Grouse, The Hare Lynx, and Golden Eagle, The Alarm Bird and the Caribou, A Battle with Wolves, End of the Voyage. And the captions for the illustrations are: 'The Caribou and the Wolves', 'The Young Voyageurs', 'The Trumpeter Swan and the Bald Eagle', 'Basil and the Bison Bull', 'The Wapiti and the Wolverine', 'Basil and the Moose Bull', 'The Log House', and 'Entering the Barrens'.)
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21.96 USD
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