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Official Year Book of the Union and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland


South Africa Union Office of Census and Statistics

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.

Record # 853704


Price: $40.00 

 

Olivia's African Diary: Cape Town to Cairo: 1932


Hatch, Olivia Stokes

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.

Record # 951724


Price: $19.00 

 

On the Missionary Trail - A Journey Through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa with the London Missionary Society


Hiney, Tom

New York, Atlantic-Monthly Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 367 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 303056


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

 

One More River to Cross - An African American Photograph Album


Myers, Walter Dean (Ed.)

New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, B&W historical photos.

Record # 303698


Price: $40.00 

 

One More River to Cross - An African American Photograph Album


Myers, Walter Dean

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.

Record # 207901


Price: $25.00 

 

Osa's Pride


Grifalconi, Ann, Illust. by: Ann Grifalconi

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Grifalconi.

Record # 66267


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War 1899-1902


Miller, Carman

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.

Record # 454656


Price: $25.00 

 

Parallel Worlds - An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa


Gottlieb, Alma and Philip Graham

NUY, Crown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages.

Record # 65127


Price: $23.00 

 

Passage to Congo, A: Photographs by Doctor Emile Muller 1923-1938


Loos, Pierre

Hardcover. Milan, 5 Continents Editions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages, illustrated with 75 b&w plates, map. In publisher's shrinkwrap. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 402510


Price: $60.00 

 

People Could Fly, The - American Black Folktales


Hamilton, Virginia , Illust. by: Leo & Diane Dillon

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.

Record # 176126


Price: $28.00 

 

Permanent Pilgrims


Yamba, C. Bawa

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

Record # 53666


Price: $25.00 

 

Personal Journey, A: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection


Clarke, Christa

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.

Record # 2230378


Price: $25.00 

Peter Kuper's Comics Trips: A Journal of Travels through Africa and Southeast AsiaKuper, Peter, Illust. by: Peter  Kuper
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Peter Kuper's Comics Trips: A Journal of Travels through Africa and Southeast Asia


Kuper, Peter, Illust. by: Peter Kuper

Softcover. Northampton MA, Tundra, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages, illustrated in b&w and color by Kuper. Light shelfwear, price sticker residue on rear cover. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411263


Price: $19.00 

Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New GenerationGibson, Glenda Anne (Editor)
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Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New Generation


Gibson, Glenda Anne (Editor)

Softcover. Getty Publications, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Never opened, still wrapped in plastic. Many photographs throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 455531


Price: $25.00 

 

Pitcairn: The Island, the people, and the pastor


Murray, Rev. Thos. Boyles

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.

Record # 850017


Price: $60.00 

 

Plains of Camdeboo, The


Palmer, Eve

New York, Viking, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. by John Pimlott. 320 pages.

Record # 65143


Price: $15.00 

 

Poems of Kenya


Haynes, Phyllis

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.

Record # 603213


Price: $13.00 

 

Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa


Morgenthau, Ruth S.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 445 pages. Light wear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60082


Price: $20.00 

 

Politics of Torch, The: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch 1942


Funk, Arthur Layton

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.

Record # 411289


Price: $15.00 

 

Pollen Wasps


Gess, Sarah

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 340 pages. Illustrated w/color and B/W photgraphs. New.

Record # 801892


Price: $19.00 


  
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