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Uganda Quest - African Wild Life After Dark


Neal, Ernest

Hardcover. NY, Taplinger, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color photos by author. Light edgewear to dj

Record # 54311


Price: $18.00 

 

Under African Sun


Alverson, Marianne

Chicago, Unif. of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 229 pages. Memoir of a family's 2 year sojourn in Botswana and their assimilation into the local culture.

Record # 65126


Price: $23.00 

 

Under Afrikas Sol


Kroyer, Olaf

Hardcover. Copenhagen Denmark, Carl Allers, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, b&w photographs, maps, softcover with color wrappers, here bound in half-leather with marbled boards, spine label with gilt lettering. Text is in Norwegian.

Record # 405968


Price: $31.00 

 

Vanishing Herds


Patel, Harshad C.

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER. Black & white photos.

Record # 58159


Price: $50.00 

 

Vegetation Map of Africa - South of the Tropic of Cancer


Keay, R. W. J.

Softcover. London, U.N.E.S.C.O. / Oxford University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Text in English and French. Softcover with full color map in rear pocket. Previous owners name stamped on covers. Covers with light foxing, chipping, along edges.

Record # 611815


Price: $50.00 

Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth CenturyHughes, Derek

Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century


Hughes, Derek

Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. EX-Library copy with usual markings, stamps and labels. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460622


Price: $19.00 

 

Viceroy of Ouidah, The


Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Summit, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56873


Price: $50.00 

 

Voices of Marrakesh, The: A Record of a Visit


Canetti, Elias

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st US, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket spine slightly sunned, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606463


Price: $40.00 

Voyager Out, A: The Life of Mary KingsleyFrank, Katherine

Voyager Out, A: The Life of Mary Kingsley


Frank, Katherine

Hardcover. Boston, 1st, September 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 333 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, chipping to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451447


Price: $12.00 

 

Vuta Kamba - The Development of Trade Unions in Tanganyika


Friedland, William H.

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 280 pages. Previous owner's signature on half-title page.

Record # 60122


Price: $15.00 

 

Wakima and the Clay Man - And Other African Folktales


Kalibala, E. Balintuma and Mary Gould Davis, Illust. by: Avery Johnson

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corner a bit bumped, and cloth torn on top front corner.

Record # 200359


Price: $18.00 

 

We Are Everywhere - Narratives from Rhodesian Guerillas


Raeburn, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Intro. by James Baldwin. 1st pub. in UK as "Black Fire!"

Record # 56875


Price: $15.00 

 

West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century


Forde, Daryll/P.M. Kaberry

Softcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 289 pages, b & w illustrations, clen, tight copy.

Record # 511461


Price: $12.00 

 

What Did You Do in WWII Grandpa?


Gabler, Clyde W.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 91 pages, b&w illustrations, in blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Author was a staff officer with the air force in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II.

Record # 405310


Price: $25.00 

 

Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake


Brown, Monty

Hardcover. US, Quiller Pr, 1st, 1992-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462334


Price: $31.00 

 

White Gold: The Story of African Ivory


Wilson, Derek

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger Pub Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459927


Price: $19.00 

 

Who Killed Kenya?


Wills, Colin

Hardcover. London, Dobson, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 111 pages. Black & white photos. Slight wear, rubbing, foxing to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges.

Record # 54308


Price: $30.00 

 

Wildest Game, The


Ryhiner, Peter and Daniel P. Mannix

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. Light edgewear, chipping to dust jacket,l else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 54309


Price: $6.00 

 

Wildlife & Safari in Kenya


Pearson, John

Hardcover. Kenya, East African Publishing House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with photographs and drawings in color and black & white. Cover shows light wear. Clean,tight copy. Bonus of possible interest is 12-page color brochure with accomodations and rates for the Best Hotels in Kenya circa 1971.

Record # 510052


Price: $19.00 

 

Wildlife and Safari in Kenya - A Comprehensive Guide-Book for Travellers


Pearson, John

Hardcover. Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa Publishing House, revised ed., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1971 hotel guide to area laid-in.Also portion of map with itinery inked-in. (Bought from estate of Elia Kazan)

Record # 107487


Price: $18.00 

 

Willie Mae (Brown Thrasher Books)


Kytle, Elizabeth

Softcover. US, University of Georgia Press, 2nd printing, 1993-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466171


Price: $10.00 

 

Wilson Harris and the Modern Tradition: A New Architecture of the World


Drake, Sandra E.

Hardcover. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, with gilt titles. Light markings in margins throughout, minor spine lean, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457177


Price: $18.00 

 

With Both Armies


Davis , Richard Harding

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Son , 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Blind stamp on cover. Slant to spine. Slight soiling to top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857448


Price: $38.00 

 

With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook


Huxley, Elspeth

Hardcover. New York , William Morrow & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 398 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear, soil.

Record # 406407


Price: $11.00 

 

Women of Africa


Scobie, Alastair

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages, with black & white photographs. Light dust jacket edge wear and tear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 855123


Price: $19.00 

 

World Is Burning, The


Shoumatoff, Alex

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1990, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, Murder in the Rain Forest. The Tragedy of Chico Mendes

Record # 7693


Price: $15.00 

 

World of Villages, A - A Six-year Journey Through Africa and Asia


Schwartz, Brian M.

NY, Crown, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 499 pages.

Record # 65128


Price: $23.00 

 

Year Book & Guide to East Africa


Gordon-Brown, A.

London, Robert Hale Ltd., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 342 pages plus additional ads and color maps - one enveloped fold-out map on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear and some chipping/chunks missing at top and bottom of spine, now protected by clear plastic cover.

Record # 510058


Price: $32.00 

 

Yesterday's Rules - The Making of the British Colonial Service


Heussler, Robert

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st UK, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 260 pages. Dj price clipped Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60097


Price: $25.00 

 

Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity! - The Eddie Cantor Five-Year Plan


Cantor, Eddie/David Freedman

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 56 pages. Hardcover. Features black & white illustrations, some of African American stereotyping. Dust jacket missing large chunk of paper from bottom left corner of front cover, smaller chips missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612539


Price: $23.00 

 

Young Africa


Larsen, Peter

Hardcover. London, Phoenix House, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color frontis. Black & white photos. Dj worn, chipped

Record # 54312


Price: $15.00 

 

Zanzabuka (Dangerous Safari): The Adventurous Account of Three Dangerous Safaris to Africa, Filming Wild Animals and Primitive Tribes


Cotlow, Lewis

Hardcover. New York , Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 370 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO HARRY M. SLAUSON ON FRONT ENDPAPER, LETTER TO SLAUSON FROM COTLOW ADHERED TO INSIDE FRONT COVER. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Green cloth cover, some wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, rear cover with stain on bottom edge - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Record # 853031


Price: $40.00 

 

Zanzibar Chest, The: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands


Hartley, Aidan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. The story of the Hartley family in Africa, an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures.

Record # 32164


Price: $15.00 

 

Zanzibar Tales


Bateman, George W.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Scarce. Brown pictorial cover with spine slightly cocked. Light edgewear to top and bottom spine, internally very good.

Record # 501873


Price: $60.00 


  

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