Hardcover. South Africa, Union of South Africa Union Office of Census and Statistics, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1308 pages, with charts and fold-out maps in color. Previous owner's signature on front and rear fly leaf, previous owner's stamps on front fly leaf, corner and spine edge wear, top spine edge missing with one inch tear, otherwise, internally clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Notes and pictures of an African adventure of two young Americans in 1932. Photographs by Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. Mild fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chip to upper fore edge corner. Mild age toning to top text block. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Black & white historical photography. Golden Kite Award seal on dust jacket.
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.
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."
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.
Softcover. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st pb, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 541 pages, b&w illustrations. Small stain to lower edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages, including bibliography. Illustrated in black and white by Leo and Diane Dillon. Some slight wear to front and corners of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Wash. DC, Smithsonian, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The role of pilgrimage in the lives of West African Muslims in Sudan
Softcover. Washington, DC, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Some gutter cracks throughout. Color photographs.
Softcover. Getty Publications, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Never opened, still wrapped in plastic. Many photographs throughout. A nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Society for promoting christian knowledge, 12th, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages in green publisher's cloth, with gilt title to spine, gilt stamp of ship on front, and blind decorations tooled on front, back and spine.This edition includes additions from the author regarding the original settlement and present conditions of Norfork Island. B&W plates throughout book. Inner hinges cracked, and some browning to pages. Ink inscription to previous owner dated 1874. A small amount of foxing and smudges on interior pages. Oherwise a clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Nairobi, privately printed, 1st, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, thin card covers, 41 pages. Appears to be printed in the 1960s, most previously published in East Africa newspapers and journals.
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 322 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Allied invasion and occupation of North Africa, one of the most important and complex operations in World War II, is described from a unique viewpoint in this volume. Clean copy.