Search Results: back to the long grass by dan crawford

New York. hardcover. Numerous b/w photos. Thick short 8vo, cloth; hinges weak. New York., (n.d.).<br/><br/>

New York: George H. Doran Co.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. ca. 1920s Black cloth. 373 pp. illustrated with b/w photos and 3 maps. Frontis of Crawford. Gift inscription dated Dec. 25, 1936. No other markings. Binding is tight and square.

George H. Doran Co., NY, no date given. First Edition, no additional pri. Hardcover. very good/no jacket. NOT an ex library book. Book with black cloth binding, print in gold. Prior owner information dated 1929 on front endpaper. 373 pages.

New York: George H. Doran Company. Hardcover. Good +. George H. Doran Co., ND (circa 1920s). Hardcover. Missing/No DJ. 6" x 9" Dark green cloth boards. Discoloration spots on cover possibly dampstain. Embossed stamp on bottom corner of front cover is faded. Edges are square. Corners are very lightly rubbed. Gilt lettering on spine. Shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Slight spine roll. Top edge of textblock is heavily darkened. Foxing and discoloration to fore-edge. Pages are age-tanned with light foxing. B&W photo plates throughout are crisp with some staining at edges of plates. Closed tear of frontispiece from hinge. No writing on pages. This book includes maps and photographs to highlight the author’s own exploration of Dr. Livingstone’s travels. history

New York: George H. Doran Co, 1920. HC. very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The author has based his book on David Livingstone's last pioneer journey: mile by mile he takes us southward through a still untouched Dark Continent and as we travel he pours out for us the great wealth of his African knowledge." 373pp.

New York, NY: George H. Doran Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. ca 1923. ........ Cloth. 8vo., 375 pp., cover rubbed, sunned, page toning, ex-library w/ ink stamps, page toning, page foxing .

Doran. Hardcover. Reading Copy. 373 pgs. text clean, binding okay. some wear to cover. no publication date, but probably prior to 1930. some photos. one photo page laid in.

New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Several pages creased and wrinkled and with a few small tears, but not affecting readability. Previous owner's name carefully printed to front free endpaper ; Meandering and occasionally frustrating account of Crawford's time as a missionary and explorer in Africa. The link with Livingstone is tenuous at best, as the erstwhile explorer died when Crawford was only three years old; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 373 pages .

New York: George H. Doran, no date. 3rd ptg . Hardcover. Very Good+/Poor. 8600 shelf. Thick volume. No names, clean text. DJ front & back panels present, spine panel gone. b/w photos. very good+, remains of dj, dark green cloth. Tight 373 pgs

London: Hodder and Stoughton [1922] Book. Very Good. Black Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 373, [1] pages, b/w plates and maps. Old names on front endpaper. The front cover of the dust wrapper is pasted to the left hand side of the half-title page. The rest of the dust wrapper is not present..

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, nd. (c.1922). Daniel "Dan" Crawford (1870 � 1926), also known as 'Konga Vantu', was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa. Pp.373, 33 black & white photos and illustrations +3 maps, toning to endpapers, inner front hinge cracking but holding firm. Black cloth, gilt title to spinem minor edge wear. G+." As well as being involved in translation work with several of the local tribal languages, he was an original thinker and was exceptionally well-read. In many ways he was far ahead of his time, as his books (Thinking Black and Back to the Long Grass) show very clearly. His approach to others was summed up in his words, "I am de-nationalized - a brother to all men; Arab, African, Mongol, Aryan, Jew; seeing in the Incarnation a link that binds us up with all men". This attitude led him to an identification with the Africans and their culture that was not generally welcomed by his European associates at the time and when this is… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, nd. (c.1922).. Pp.373, 33 black & white photo illustrations + 3 maps., toning to endpapers, pencil notations to rear endpapers. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, slight wear to top and tail of spine. G+. **Daniel "Dan" Crawford (1870 � 1926), also known as 'Konga Vantu', was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa...he did much to travel around the Luapula valley founding and encouraging other outposts of the Garenganze Evangelical Mission. He studied African languages and sought to understand African customs and traditional rule, and was a frequent visitor to chiefs such as Mwata Kazembe. When the latter rebelled against and was defeated by the British, Crawford and his mission colleagues had a role in persuading the chief to accept the inevitable and to achieve a working relationship with the colonial authorities. He wrote two influential books, of which one, Thinking Black was recommended reading for those Europeans who wanted… Read More

Hardback. New.

New York: George H. Doran. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Undated [1923]. 373 pp, with 33 illustrations from photographs and 3 maps. Front hinge repaired, else a fine copy in the original dust jacket, which has one internal tape repair. Dan Crawford (1870-1926) was a Scottish missionary who spent 37 years in Africa and identified unusually strongly with Africans and their culture. Here he retraces David Livingstone's last journey, sharing a wealth of information about the land and the people.

New York: George H. Doran Company, c1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not stated. The first US edition of Crawford's travel experiences in Africa with illustrations. First US edition of Back to the Long Grass My Link with Livingstone by Dan Crawford in the original publisher's cloth binding. Undated, dated through Jisc. Illustrated with thirty four monochrome plates and three maps. Collated, complete. An interesting autobiographical account of travel experiences in Africa and the author's familiarity with the nineteenth century missionary. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The hinges are strained but firm. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some slight age toning. Very Good