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Italy in North Africa - An Account of the Tripoli Enterprise


McClure, W. K.

Philadelphia, John C.Winston, 1st , 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. and maps (3 fold-outs in rear) 328 pages. Ex-lib with bookplate, minimal marking, nice condition.

Record # 65145


Price: $100.00 

 

John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence


Muir, John, Michael P. Branch

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight. Green endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Like new. Michael Branch has elegantly and creatively helped imagine John Muir's "missing years" and his astonishing journey to the tropics.

Record # 31567


Price: $25.00 

 

Kenya's Warning - The Challenge to White Supremacy In Our British Colony


Wilson, Christopher

hardcover. Nairobi, Pr. Printed, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. Some marking in margins. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 64561


Price: $19.00 

 

Land Belongs to Us, The - The Pedi Policy, the Boers and the British in the Ninteenth Century Transvaal


Delius, Peter

Berkeley, University of Calif., 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 278 pages.

Record # 65137


Price: $25.00 

 

Last Chance in Kenya, A


Leys, N orman

Hardcover. London, Hogarth Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Some notations in ink, pencil in margins (about 10 pages. Dust jacket laid-in (minus spine).

Record # 64133


Price: $44.00 

 

Levande Dod: Peter Magubanes Sydafrika


Magubane, Peter

Softcover. Stockholm, Kulturhuset, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages, a selection of the South African's photographs in b&w. Text in Swedish.

Record # 407717


Price: $19.00 

 

LIFE AND TIMES OF CLEOPATRA QUEEN OF EGYPT, THE: A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire.


Weigall, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Revised, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages. Illustrated. Maps. 8vo. Top edge gilt. Black cloth, gilt. Previous owner's sticker back paste down.

Record # 220684


Price: $13.00 

 

Living Texas Blues


Govenar, Alan

Softcover. Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Some shelf-wear to covers. Light wear along spine, including small closed tear. A little soiling on rear cover. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856476


Price: $50.00 

 

Local Government and Politics in Uganda


Burke, Fred B.

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse Univ., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Light edgewear to dj.

Record # 60071


Price: $25.00 

 

Lords of the Equator - An African Journey


Balfour, Patrick

hardcover. London, Hutchinson & Co., Rep., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis. Pages browning otherwise V G. 282 pages.

Record # 64560


Price: $23.00 

 

Lure of Africa, The - American Interests in Tropical Africa 1919-1939


McKinley, Edward H.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Winner of Allan Nevins History Prize. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, dj with light wear.

Record # 60094


Price: $20.00 

 

Making of Tanganyika, The


Listowel, Judith

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 451 pages. Light edgewear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60081


Price: $35.00 

 

Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa, from Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia


Kelly, Orr

Hardcover. New York, Wiley, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages, with b&w photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456827


Price: $12.00 

 

Mountains of Pharaoh, The


Cottrell, Leonard

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., Unk., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Spine stain, fade

Record # 57111


Price: $15.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLII July - December 1922


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - Dec. 1922, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes two supplemental fold-out maps: Africa and the World. Very good, Clean.

Record # 415527


Price: $50.00 

 

Negro Art - From the Institute of Ethnography, Leningrad


Olderogge, Dmitry/Werner Forman

Hardcover. London, Paul Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610211


Price: $31.00 

 

Negro Leagues Book, The


Clark (eds.), Dick, Larry Lester

Softcover. Cleveland, OH, The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Light edgewear. Minor creasing to spine. Damp stain on front cover and first few pages. Tiny indentation on rear cover and last pages. Very faint odor. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856422


Price: $15.00 

 

Nile, The - The Life-Story of a River


Ludwig, Emil

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Viking Press, Reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 619 pages. Hardcover. Tan cloth covered boards with blue titles & light tanning to spine. A few very small spots of soiling to boards. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. Toning to edges throughout. Tanning to gutter on endpapers. Black & white illustrations throughout. Spotting to pp. 432. Otherwise, dlean & unmarked.

Record # 751415


Price: $19.00 

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights MovementRalph Jr., James R.
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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement


Ralph Jr., James R.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 338 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. ewdgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket. Internally very good.

Record # 460312


Price: $38.00 

Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful PeopleFernea, Robert A.
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Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People


Fernea, Robert A.

Hardcover. Austin, TX, Smithmark Pub, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Slight yellowing to top of front dust jacket inside flap. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white images throughout.

Record # 470937


Price: $25.00 

 

On Wings of Eagles: The Plight, Exodus, and Homecoming of Oriental Jewry


Schechtman, Joseph B.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 429 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). Some agewear to cover boards at edges (see image). Some tanning to edges from age. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape for its age. Starting in 1948 over half a million Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Aden, Syria, Egypt, Libya to their homeland of Israel voluntarily relocated. This history of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East describes in detail their mass exodus, how it was done and the impact on the countries left behind.

Record # 32247


Price: $19.00 

 

Our Grandmothers' Drums


Hudson, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Blue cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Has a touch of rubbing to dj. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In very good condition. A "travel book" about the inhabitants of the village Dulaba in Gambia, Africa.

Record # 32160


Price: $15.00 

Our Vichy GambleLanger, William L.
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Our Vichy Gamble


Langer, William L.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 412 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear, chipping, creasing and repaired tear to jacket, now in brodart cover. Stamp of former owner on front end papers. Staining on top of text block, otherwise clean copy. "Never before so soon after the end of a great war have documentary materials such as those on which this brilliantly written and fascinating book is based been made available to the historians. Here is the whole complex story of our relations with France from the date of its collapse and the setting up of the Vichy regime to the climactic invasion of North Africa."

Record # 2230646


Price: $150.00 

 

Out of the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics


Pakenham, Valerie

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial end papers. Small closed tear to upper edge of dust jacket's front cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810182


Price: $10.00 


  
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