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Business, Mission, and Meditation by Albert Helman (pseudonym for Lou Lichtveld) [SIGNED] - 1968: THE ROMANCE OF A TWO HUNDRED YEAR OLD SURINAME COMPANY

by Albert Helman (pseudonym for Lou Lichtveld) [SIGNED]

Business, Mission, and Meditation by Albert Helman (pseudonym for Lou Lichtveld) [SIGNED] - 1968

Business, Mission, and Meditation: THE ROMANCE OF A TWO HUNDRED YEAR OLD SURINAME COMPANY

by Albert Helman (pseudonym for Lou Lichtveld) [SIGNED]

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Loe Lichtvelt, inscribed, signed, and dated, under his pen name, "Abert Helman".
A history of a two hundred year old company in Suriname, "C. KERSTEN & CO."

"Albert Helman". Lou Lichtveld was born in Paramaribo, Suriname into an elite family. At the age of twelve, he went to the Netherlands to become a priest at boarding school Rolduc in Kerkrade.

He completed this training after a short time and returned to Suriname. At the Paulus School in Paramaribo, he completed a music study. After that he worked as an organist and composer. He gained notability in 1923 when he published the poetry collection De glorende dag (The Dawning Day),.."

At the time of the publishing of this history, In 1968, Lichtvelt would have been 65. His attitudes have changed: In 1926; his debut novel Zuid-Zuid-West ("South-South-West") describes the exploitation of Suriname by the Dutch colonizer.


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Borderlands of Eternity

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CA: Institute of Mentalphysics, 1941. First published by Arrowsmith & Co. England/Henry Holt NY, this is The Privately Printed Edition of 1941. Maroon cloth HC binding w/blk & gold stamping, blind-stamped deco on front board, maroon endpapers, Illus w/b&w photos taken by the author across China to Tibet. Signed by Author 'In the hope that you may find not only interest, but enlightenment in this volume. DingleWei' Binding is Firm tho front/rear hinge cracked, Cover is Clean, spine discolored. Pages have no marks or foxing, last 30 pgs or so water wrinkled at corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Photos. Private Press.
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A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World: Performed by Captain James Cook, with an account of...
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A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World: Performed by Captain James Cook, with an account of his life, during the previous and intervening periods

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Bickers and Son, London, 1880. Hardcover (approx 5.75 x 8.75 (15 x 22 cm)), 404 pages. Good+ condition. With twelve illustrations reproduced in exact facsimile from drawings made during the voyages. Blue boards with gold trim (two thin lines) decorative gold inlay along edges. Five raised gilt bands evenly spaced across spine. Decorative gold inlay and book title (on faux gold/brown square) between bands. The boards are bumped, rubbed and scratched. Rubbed, with spotting along spine hinges and board edges. The top corner of the front board is rubbed off, revealing the underlaying board. There is what appears to be moisture/water stain across the bottom of the front board. Marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. Pages foxing/browning. There is a very neat inscription dated July 28, 1882 (the book presented as an award) from a school headmaster to a pupil on the free page opposite the half title page. There is a frontispiece depicting the death of Captain Cook opposite the title page, separated by a… Read More
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Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or, A Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park: Consisting of...
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Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or, A Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park: Consisting of Retrospect of the various Changes that have occurred in the Court end of London

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, [1], 405, [1] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Contemporary half morroco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Brown and red decorated endpapers. Errata on unpaginated page following Preface. With: 1920 clipping from the Daily Chronicle of article by Trevor Allen, "Kensington in The Season: Things Seen in a Twilight Stroll." In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; clean and bright.
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Quarterly publication of the Under-Secretariat of State for the Press and Tourism. 5th number (Summer 1938). Chief Editor: Takis Barlas. Artistic supervision: G. Gerondas. Covers: Photis Kontoglou. Coloured illustration by Marie Scanavi: Costume of Leucas. Printed by the Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts, Athens. 33x24 cm. Texts: Semni Papaspyridou-Karousou, Alex. Philadelpheus, Otto Kern, Gustave Fougères, Camille Mauclair, Albert Thibaudet, Dimi, A. Papadiamandis. Photos: Nelly's, Oeconomides.
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I Married Adventure

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New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott, [1940]. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. 8vo. 376 p. Bound in brown and cream zebra-patterned cloth, 'Adventure' in italics on front cover and spine, deckle edge, top-edge stained red. No other printings stated on copyright page. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good+, bright and clean, hinges strong and solid, very light rubbing to extremities and very faint age-toning to spine. Sharp copy.
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Borderlands of Eternity
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Borderlands of Eternity

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CA: Institute of Mentalphysics, 1941. First published by Arrowsmith & Co. England/Henry Holt NY, this is The Privately Printed Edition of 1941. Maroon cloth HC binding w/blk & gold stamping, blind-stamped deco on front board, maroon endpapers, Illus w/b&w photos taken by the author across China to Tibet. Signed by Author 'In the hope that you may find not only interest, but enlightenment in this volume. DingleWei' Binding is Firm tho front/rear hinge cracked, Cover is Clean, spine discolored. Pages have no marks or foxing, last 30 pgs or so water wrinkled at corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Photos. Private Press.
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A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World: Performed by Captain James Cook, with an account of...
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A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World: Performed by Captain James Cook, with an account of his life, during the previous and intervening periods

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Bickers and Son, London, 1880. Hardcover (approx 5.75 x 8.75 (15 x 22 cm)), 404 pages. Good+ condition. With twelve illustrations reproduced in exact facsimile from drawings made during the voyages. Blue boards with gold trim (two thin lines) decorative gold inlay along edges. Five raised gilt bands evenly spaced across spine. Decorative gold inlay and book title (on faux gold/brown square) between bands. The boards are bumped, rubbed and scratched. Rubbed, with spotting along spine hinges and board edges. The top corner of the front board is rubbed off, revealing the underlaying board. There is what appears to be moisture/water stain across the bottom of the front board. Marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. Pages foxing/browning. There is a very neat inscription dated July 28, 1882 (the book presented as an award) from a school headmaster to a pupil on the free page opposite the half title page. There is a frontispiece depicting the death of Captain Cook opposite the title page, separated by a… Read More
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Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or, A Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park: Consisting of...
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Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or, A Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park: Consisting of Retrospect of the various Changes that have occurred in the Court end of London

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, [1], 405, [1] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Contemporary half morroco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Brown and red decorated endpapers. Errata on unpaginated page following Preface. With: 1920 clipping from the Daily Chronicle of article by Trevor Allen, "Kensington in The Season: Things Seen in a Twilight Stroll." In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; clean and bright.
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In Greece
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Quarterly publication of the Under-Secretariat of State for the Press and Tourism. 5th number (Summer 1938). Chief Editor: Takis Barlas. Artistic supervision: G. Gerondas. Covers: Photis Kontoglou. Coloured illustration by Marie Scanavi: Costume of Leucas. Printed by the Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts, Athens. 33x24 cm. Texts: Semni Papaspyridou-Karousou, Alex. Philadelpheus, Otto Kern, Gustave Fougères, Camille Mauclair, Albert Thibaudet, Dimi, A. Papadiamandis. Photos: Nelly's, Oeconomides.
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I Married Adventure
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New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott, [1940]. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. 8vo. 376 p. Bound in brown and cream zebra-patterned cloth, 'Adventure' in italics on front cover and spine, deckle edge, top-edge stained red. No other printings stated on copyright page. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good+, bright and clean, hinges strong and solid, very light rubbing to extremities and very faint age-toning to spine. Sharp copy.
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South American Journals 1858-1859
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South American Journals 1858-1859

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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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A Holiday in Italy
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A Holiday in Italy

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Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the...
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal

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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More
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The Silence Of The North

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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone

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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and...
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.

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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.

by Barr, William (1950- ) and Glyndwr Williams (editors)

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2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former… Read More
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