Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of scholarly historical studies. 336 pages. Dj with closed tears. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf
New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 152 pages. Contains some black & white photographs. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. 'Discard' stamp and residue from tape on front and back pages. Last page torn out. Corners and spine lightly rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, markings. Library label on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners & Sons, 1st, December 30, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume set. Minor wear to edges, else a clean, tight set.
Softcover. New York , Swann Auction Galleries, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover auction catalog. 162 lots, illustrated in color. No prices realized list. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, McDowell Obolensky, 1st, 1958/1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol I: with black & white photos, drawings by Tomi Ungerer. Vol II: Contains his script of The African Queen. Light soil, edgewear to dust jackets.
Hardcover. NY , Appleton, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated with b&w photos, line drawings, map endpapers by the author. Nice, clean copy in decorated green cloth.
Softcover. Chicago , Donohue, Unknown, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages Juvenile travel book with many nice B&W engravings. Cardboard covers with color paper, label chipped, peeling.Edges of cardboard covers with gouge at bottom edge. Internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, First Edition, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with brick colored titles to spine. Light wear to crown & heel of spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light toning to edges throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
New York, New York University Press, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 419 pages. Dust jacket with slight yellowing to edges, edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Marlowe & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Cover and dust jacket have very little wear. Inside is clean. A nice, bright copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages, large color photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 123 pages, photographs by Robert Lyons throughout, with essay and poems by Chinua Achebe. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Laminate wrappers completely illustrated in color, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, foreword by Thomas P. F. Hoving, preface by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, essays by multiple authors. Slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
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