Hardcover. Niwot, CO, The University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along the top edge, but is still in very good condition. Green cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is an intellectual autobiography by the controversial sociology and anthropology professor at the University of Washington. It describes his 1933 birth in the Belgian Congo, youth in Nazi-occupied Belgium, education in the US, and years of field work in Africa and Latin America. Includes family photographs and a generous sprinkling of insights on race relations, social stratification, and age and sex differentiation. Clean copy. Record # 34132
Softcover. US, Bison Books, 1st, 2010-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 466166
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, pictorial boards, and interior pages are all clean and bright. The front end page has some sticker residue. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. The recipes in this cookbook represent different styles of Southern cooking. Miss Lewis' Virginia country cooking, and Scott Peacock's inventive and sensitive blending of new tastes with the Alabama foods he grew up on, liberally seasoned with Native American, Caribbean, and African influences. Together they have taken neglected traditional recipes unearthed in their years of research together on Southern food and worked out new versions that they have made their own. Clean copy. Record # 34164
Hardcover. NY, American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 529 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several chips and closed tears, concentrated at the top and bottom of the spine. Brown cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography and maps throughout. This book is a comprehensive illustrated history of all of Africa. It also presents, in 12 anthologies, a cross-section of Africa's little-known historical literature. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34355
Softcover. Toronto, ON, Broadview Literary Texts, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This is a memoir written by Olaudah Equiano, an influential African advocate of abolishing the slave trade in Britain during the late 18th century. Clean copy. Record # 33665
Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann Educational Books, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, soft cover. Covers have some light edge wear, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright, with only minor foxing. The last 50 pages or so of this book have wavy paper typical of minor water damage. This volume is part of the Heinemann African Writers Series, and creates a chimerical world of illusion and truth, fired by a language that challenges the imagination. Clean copy. Record # 34387
Hardcover. NY, Manhattan House, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. Covers are in reasonably good condition, just some minor dents and fading around the spine and edges. Interior pages are clean and bright. This book includes 5 Volumes: America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Each volume is comprised of B&W photos of indigenous people in daily life, in ceremonial dress, or demonstrating other cultural aspects, with corresponding explanatory captions. Previous owner stamped, pasted, and then wrote their name and address on the inside front end page. Otherwise clean copy. Record # 33659
Softcover. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a part of The Cultures and Practice of Violence series. It considers how young men in West Africa are made available for violent labor on the battlefields, in diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries. Based on ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries' recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the paths of young fighters who moved from grassroots community-defense organizations in Sierra Leone during the mid-1990s into a large pool of mercenary labor. Clean copy. Record # 34529
Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 212 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with several closed tears and a few chips. It has been preserved through the use of a plastic sleeve. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This out-of-print book is a valuable historical record of East Africa's traditional customs and ceremonies, featuring photographs taken in 1967-68. This is a large-form book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's inscription present on front end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34010
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. Story of the authors life and adventures capturing wild animals for zoos, etc. Record # 54309
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
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
Softcover. NY, Amistad, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages, soft cover. Exterior and interior are in very good condition. This is one of six volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad literary series, which is devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. Clean copy. Record # 33605
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