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Author Name Lewis, Ethelreda (editor), Foreward By John Galsworthy Title Trader Horn, Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn Binding Hard Cover Book Condition Very Good Publisher New York The Literary Guild of America 1927 Seller ID 4639 Complete in one volume. Horn traces his adventures as a young man in Africa as an Ivory trader in the 1870's; filled with tales of cannibals, elephants, African tribes, and wild animals. This is the first volume edited by Mrs. Lewis of Horn's reminiscences with all the hearty details of Horn's personality, philosophy and prejudices. Volume II, Trader Horn, Harold The Webbed or The Young Vykings, with a foreword by William McFee continues the works writen by Horn at age 73. More adventures of Aloysius Horn; his memories of old Lancashire; his term as detective for Scotland Yard; family, etc. Vol. I, drawing of Horn, frontispiece, Vol. II. glossy portrait. Vol. II two color title page. Both volumes green cloth boards, Vol. I, gilt elephant head to front board; II gilt Viking ship; gilt to both spine, II dulled, mildly sunned with a small round stain, red spot to rear board. End papers to Vol. I, map of Africa, Vol. II, "Being a map of the route followed by Trader Horn's boy vyking, Harold the Webbed, in great sea-faring.....". Both volumes spine ends bumped and rubbed, Vol. I, upper corner bumped, mild fraying to corner. Rear hinge starting. Contents clean, tightly bound, no writing. Spotting to page ends. Volume I, 5 th printing, July 1927, Vol. II, first thus. 302, 275 pp, tall 8vo.
19th Century Africa, Ivory Coast 19th Century, Trader Horn, African Ivory TradersFaroe Islands, African Traders, Alfred Aloysius Horn, African HistoryAfrican VoyagesMemoir, 19th Century Africa
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