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AFRICA]. -- BRADLEY, Mary Hastings. Caravans and Cannibals . New York, 1926. Presentation copy, inscribed on the frontispiece map by the author. -- FOTHERGILL, Edward. Five Years In The Sudan . London, 1910. -- SHORTHOSE, Capt. W.T. Sport & Adventure In Africa . London, 1923. -- STONEHAM, C.T. Wanderings In Wild Africa . London, [1932].-- LETCHER, Owen. Big Game Hunting In North-Eastern Rhodesia . London, 1911. -- HAYWOOD, Lieut.-Col. A.H.W. Sport & Service In Africa . Philadelphia, n.d. -- CARDINALL, A.W. In Ashanti & Beyond . London, 1927. -- COMYN, D.C.E.A. Service & Sport In The Sudan . London, 1911. -- TANGTYE, H. Lincoln. In the Torrid Sudan . Boston, 1910. -- STREETER, Daniel W. Denatured Africa . New York, 1926. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Russell Aitken,"Buffalo, N.Y. Feb. 1949, For Russell Aitken. I've had many adventures in my life but most of them never happened, Dan Streeter. The map of Africa has changed considerably since this book was written, but its mystery and romance lingers on." -- STREETER, Daniel W. Camels! New York, 1927. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Streeter to Russell B. Aitken on the front free endpaper. Inscribed for Russell Aitken "about the time a man is old enough to know better, you can expect the worst, sincerely Daniel W. Streeter. Sure the Buffalo on page 190 look merely curious but if someone had started to run, a very authentic charge might have followed. I wanted to run like hell but was too scared," D.W.S. Buffalo, N.Y. Feb. 1949. -- LYELL, Denis D. Memories of an African Hunter . London, [1924]. Second impression. -- STATHAM, Col. J.C.B. Through Angola A Coming Colony . Edinburgh, 1922. -- DU CHAILLU, Paul B. Explorations & Adventures In Equatorial Africa . London, 1861. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Charles Nordhoff on front flyleaf; signature of Nordhoff on title; and an 8-pp. ALS from Du Chaillu to Nordhoff tipped-in. -- BAKER, Sir S.W. Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia . Hartford, 1869.With an ALS from Baker laid-in. -- HINDLIP, Lord. Sport and Travel: Abyssinia and British East Africa . London, 1906. -- MAUGHAM, R.C.F. Portuguese East Africa . London, 1906. -- MAUGHAM, R.C.F. Wild Game In Zambezia . New York, 1914. -- MAUGHAM, R.C.F. Africa As I Have Known It . London, [1929]. -- DUGMORE, Maj. A. Radclyffe. The Vast Sudan . New York, [1924]. Together 20 vols., 8 o. Uniformly bound in taupe half morocco (2 vols bound in a slightly browner shade), spines, decorated with gilt sable antelope head and tribal sculpture devices from the Aitken Collection. Most with all or partial original cloth covers bound in at rear; each volume with plates (some with maps). (20)