Trader Horn, Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn, the Works Written By Himself at the Age of Seventy-Three and the Life, with Such of His Philosophy as is the gift of Age and Experience Taken Down Here and Edited By Ethelreda Lewis
Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Limited, 1927. Hardcover. 12mo. Very Good. Item #003033
viii, 302 p.p. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine and vignette portrait of a man to front board. Spine sunned, bumped at ends. Damp stain to rear board, white scuff to head of rear board. B&W portrait frontis. of Aloysius Horn. Black, white and green map endpapers of Africa. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP. Closed tear to dedication page, damp staining to some pages near rear, not affecting text . "This is a true story of a real man. So real that I have thought it necessary to alter names here and there, including his own surname." (from Introduction). The story of an ivory trader in the 1870s who worked along the west coast of Africa.
Price: $45.00