Softcover. New York, Little Brown & Co, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New York, Little Brown & Co, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: None, 367 pages. Illustrated title page. B&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.. 384 pages. Record # 467525 Record # 467525
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a minor dent on the front cover, and is folded inwards on the rear flap. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book vividly describes the experiences of the gunners, sappers, cavalrymen, and airmen--Britons, Canadians, Australians, Indians, Germans, Italians, and others--who struggled in the heat, sand, and dust of the brutal battle of Alamein. Clean copy. Record # 33730
Hardcover. New York , Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to edges and dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857221
Hardcover. New York, Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to dust jacket and top and side edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857241
Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 223 pages. Light edgewear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy. Record # 60088
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. "How regional cooks transform key ingredients into the world's favorite cuisines." Blue text. Illustrated title page. Yellow endpapers. Light wear to top of spine, otherwise near fine. Yellow and blue pictorial boards, yellow spine with blue lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 803643
Hardcover. US, New Press, 1st, 1997-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466184
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 4th Print, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along the top edge, but still in very good condition overall. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Set on a troubled Caribbean island, where "everybody wants to fight his own little war," and "everyone is a guerrilla," the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island to help. His English mistress, Jane, is blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her actions. Roche and Jane are drawn into a fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives. Clean copy. Record # 33828
Hardcover. US, Harcourt, 1st, 1994-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462310
Softcover. University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 454690
Softcover. NY, Human Rights Watch, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 789 pages, soft cover. Covers have lightly bumped corners and some edge wear, but are still clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W maps and illustrations throughout. This book is a report documenting the famous 1994 genocide, and is widely recognized as a definitive account. This is a large, heavy volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34519
Hardcover. US, Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1st, 2000-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462700
Hardcover. NY, W.H. Freeman and Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Record # 60060
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 2nd printing, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Record # 459991
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, 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. 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
Softcover. London, England, I. B. Tauris, 1st thus, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains some B&W maps and tables throughout. This book is based on empirical and theoretical investigation, and provides original insight into how a local protest movement develops into a revolution that changes a regime. This book elaborates on how one can understand political revolutions, in the context of Tunisia. It is the first of a trilogy which seeks to provide a rich, comprehensive, and lucid assessment of the revolutions in three states: Tunisia, Syria, and Egypt. Clean copy. Record # 34603