Gehrts, M. / [Major Hans Schomburgk].

A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland. The Adventures, Observations and Experiences of a Cinematograph Actress in West African Forests Whilst Collecting Films Depicting Native Life and When Posing as the White Woman in Anglo-African Cinematograph Dramas. With an Introduction by Major H.Schomburgk.

Philadelphia / London, J. B. Lippincott Co / Seeley, Service & Co Ltd, 1915. 15.2 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 315 pages. 41 illustrations including frontis. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. One illustration slightly detached only. Interior is bright and clean. Binding is firm and strong. Rare in this very good condition. Tiny bookstamp from Chas.E. Lauriat Co. in Washington Street, Boston.

Includes, for example, the following: London to Lome / Life at Kamina / Atakpame to Sokode / In the Capital of Tschaudjoland / Aledjo-Kadara – The Switzerland of Togo – Among the Bafilo Folk / Christmas at Sansane-Mangu / Among the Sambu Savages / Nambiri to Tschopowa etc.

Meg Gehrts (born as Emma Augusta Gehrts in Hamburg) was briefly married to the big game hunter, Africa-Adventurer and filmmaker Hans Schomburgk. She was an actress in several silent films under the direction of Schomburgk like ‘The White Goddess of the Wangora’, a movie filmed in Togoland in 1913.

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120178AB

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