The Wade Burgess Collections

I love to read books related to southern Africa and Nile exploration

I love to collect first editions and illustrated editions of books that I read

This website will showcase the book collections that I have spent over two decades building

I also hope to inform other collectors

You will enjoy my website the most if you browse it using a regular computer and monitor, or large tablet

Click any portrait below to see photos of excellent-condition copies of each author's books

Many images on this website are of books in my personal collections

H. Rider Haggard

Samuel White Baker

Cynthia Stockley

Bertram Mitford

Wilbur Smith

Sarah Gertrude Millin

Charles John Andersson

Bryce Courtenay

Tony Park

Henry Morton Stanley

A.W. Drayson

Gertrude Page

F.E. Mills Young


I cannot find a photo of her anywhere

Alan Scholefield

Ernest Glanville


I cannot find a photo of him anywhere

F.S. Brereton

John Hanning Speke

James Augustus Grant

David Livingstone

Brigid Knight

William Baldwin

Daphne Rooke

John Gordon Davis

Percy Fitzpatrick

Stuart Cloete

F.C. Selous

Beverley Harper

Robert W. Krepps