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Here is a very uncommon first edition from 1874.
Here is a very uncommon first edition from 1874.
MY KALULU, PRINCE, KING AND SLAVE: A Story of Central Africa
MY KALULU, PRINCE, KING AND SLAVE: A Story of Central Africa
You won’t find a nicer copy for sale anywhere else.
You won’t find a nicer copy for sale anywhere else.
On Henry Stanley’s journey to find David Livingstone, Stanley was given a young black boy, whom Stanley renamed Kalulu, which is Swahili for “rabbit.”
After Stanley found Livingstone (“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”), Stanley took Kalulu with him to England and spent 6 weeks writing HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE (1872), which was very popular with the public, which was enamored with Livingstone and Livingstone’s trials and tribulations.
MY KALULU was Stanley’s first work of fiction. It was written for Boys.
Stanley went on to become even more famous as an explorer in Africa. In 1874, the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa. His ambitious objective was to complete the exploration and mapping of the Central African Great Lakes and rivers, in the process circumnavigating Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and locating the source of the Nile. Kalulu drowned while on this expedition with Stanley, who wrote his account of the expedition in THROUGH THE AFRICAN CONTINENT (1878).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalulu
Here is a very uncommon 1868 edition
Here is a very uncommon 1868 edition
You won’t find a nicer copy for sale anywhere else.
You won’t find a nicer copy for sale anywhere else.
The 1861 first edition is extremely rare, and only the famous London booksellers Jarndyce and Peter Harrington have copies for sale at over $4000.
The copy that I have for sale is an 1868 edition, same publisher as the first edition: T. Nelson.
This is as close as you will get to owning a first edition for a decent price. I could find no other copies published in the 1860s for sale anywhere else.
Front inner hinge strengthened. Former owner signature, and stamps. Some foxing, but mainly to early and late pages.
As for the 1861 first edition ... Quayle 26a; Sadleir 110 recording a copy, but he did not have it in his own collection; not in Wolff. Quayle notes that 'few copies of the first edition appear to have survived, and to find one in the original cloth binding is a rare occurrence. This may well be a measure of the popularity of the tale, the book having been "read to death" in the first few years of its existence to be finally consigned to the dustbin, dog-eared and tattered'.
After the popular publication in early 1861 of Paul du Chaillu's book Exploration in Equatorial Guinea which included passages on the hitherto little-known gorilla (or 'ferocious wild men of the forest'), the publishers T. Nelson & Sons persuaded Ballantyne to write a novel on the subject. Published in December 1861, The Gorilla Hunters incorporates the characters of Jack Martin, Ralph Rover, and Peterkin Gay who also appeared in Ballantyne's most enduring novel Coral Island, published in 1858.
Ballantyne was born in Edinburgh in 1825. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company at the age of 16 leaving Scotland for remote Canada and the tough world of fur trading. Following in the footsteps of his uncle who was the printer of Sir Walter Scott's novels, Ballantyne privately printed his first tale Hudson Bay, a story of 'every-day life in the wilds of North America'. It began a prolific career in which Ballantyne produced scores of adventure novels for children. Between 1856 until his death in 1894 Ballantyne produced two if not three books a year. With his global tales of derring-do and exciting stories of the fast-paced and ever-changing Victorian world, Ballantyne, Sutherland notes, 'did for the English schoolboy's geography what Henty did for history'.
Harry Collingwood THE CONGO ROVERS
Harry Collingwood THE CONGO ROVERS
1894, 1st American edition
1894, 1st American edition
A Story of the Slave Squadron along West Africa.
A Story of the Slave Squadron along West Africa.
Blackie published the novel earlier in 1885 in England. See the Ad that I found on the Internet.
Blackie published the novel earlier in 1885 in England. See the Ad that I found on the Internet.
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