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Alice in Jungleland


Bradley, Mary Hastings, Illust. by: Mary Hastings Bradley

Hardcover. NY , Appleton, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated with b&w photos, line drawings, map endpapers by the author. Nice, clean copy in decorated green cloth.

Record # 501389


Price: $188.00 

 

Amistad


Pesci, David

Hardcover. New York, Marlowe & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Cover and dust jacket have very little wear. Inside is clean. A nice, bright copy.

Record # 455876


Price: $12.00 

 

Bar of Shadow, A


van der Post, Laurens

NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Previous owner's inscription and enclosed note indicates this was TV personality & writer Steve Allen's copy. Edgeworn dust jacket.

Record # 601587


Price: $20.00 

Beggars' Signwriters, The Greenberg, Louis

Beggars' Signwriters, The


Greenberg, Louis

Softcover. Roggebaai [South Africa], Umuzi, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 458022


Price: $28.00 

 

Boss Chombale (SIGNED)


Hubbard, Margaret Carson

New York , Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages, b&w illustrations by Peter Spier, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, note card from author also laid in.

Record # 408803


Price: $38.00 

 

Chinaberry Tree


Fauset, Jessie Redmon

Softcover. Twayne Publishers, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456822


Price: $8.00 

 

Country of the Dwarfs, The


Du Chaillu, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Negro Universities Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Black & white illustrations. Faint yellow stain on pages 18-27. Spine slightly cocked.

Record # 608508


Price: $12.00 

Crucible for Silver and Furnace for GoldGitaa, Moraa

Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold


Gitaa, Moraa

Softcover. Nsemia Inc., 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460224


Price: $19.00 

 

Fonabio and the Lion


Guillot, Rene, Illust. by: W.F. Phillips, J.P. Ariel

London, George G. Harrap, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in b&w and color by W.F. Phillips and J.P. Ariel. 173 pages in a nice dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 600098


Price: $15.00 

 

Kahawa


Westlake, Donald E.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top.

Record # 604057


Price: $18.00 

 

Living Texas Blues


Govenar, Alan

Softcover. Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Some shelf-wear to covers. Light wear along spine, including small closed tear. A little soiling on rear cover. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856476


Price: $50.00 

 

Looking on Darkness


Brink, Andre P.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st U.S., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, translated from Afrikaans, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800973


Price: $21.00 

 

Messaouda


Serhane, Abdelhak

Hardcover. London / NY, Carcanet, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A novel of growing up in a Muslim family in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa in the 1950's.

Record # 108242


Price: $12.00 

 

Middy of the Slave Squadron, A: A West African Story


Collingwood, Harry

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son Limited, reprint, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Color frontispiece and 3 color illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Frontispiece detached. Some rubbing and wear to cover. Pages clean.

Record # 852059


Price: $20.00 

 

Mirandy Exhorts


Dix, Dorothy , Illust. by: E.W. Kemble

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, The Penn Publishing Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, hardcover. Maroon boards with yellow titling. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Early 20th century African-American "dialect" book. Moderate fading and edgewear to spine. Bumping to corners. Age toning to text block edges. Fading and spotting to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952167


Price: $38.00 

 

Mission, The; or, Scenes in Africa.


Marryat, Captain, Illust. by: D. Murray Smith

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st U.S., 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Corners and spine slightly bumped, with minor fraying. Faint residue from sticker on front endpaper. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Volume 21 in the Novels of Captain Marryat. Printed on hand-made paper and is number 714 of 750 limited edition copies for America. Some minor foxing, otherwise inside is bright and clean with frontispiece and other b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852582


Price: $15.00 

 

Mukasa


Nagenda, John, Illust. by: Charles Lilly

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Charles Lilly. Dust jacket shows minor wear.

Record # 509626


Price: $10.00 

 

Negro Leagues Book, The


Clark (eds.), Dick, Larry Lester

Softcover. Cleveland, OH, The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Light edgewear. Minor creasing to spine. Damp stain on front cover and first few pages. Tiny indentation on rear cover and last pages. Very faint odor. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856422


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Sara in die Woud


Yates, Elizabeth, Illust. by: Nora S. Unwin

Johannesburg, Tafelberg , 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The South African edition of Sara Whitcher's Story, SIGNED BY YATES on title page. Dutch text. B&W illustrations by Nora S. Unwin.

Record # 305485


Price: $30.00 

 

Son of the Whiteman


Best, Herbert

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover. Blue top edge. Black & white illustrations by Erick Berry. Diagonal crease (top to bottom) on front endpaper, and preliminary page. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611045


Price: $38.00 

Things Gone and Things Still Here Bowles , Paul

Things Gone and Things Still Here


Bowles , Paul

Softcover. Santa Barbara , Black Sparrow Press , reprint , 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 89 pages. One of 500 printed. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Light shelf wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857438


Price: $100.00 

 

Thrills of Tiny Tongaat, The - A Story from South Africa


Hale, Emiline

Hardcover. London, Religious Tract Society, unknown, circa 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The tales of a little Zulu boy. Color frontis, many line drawings in text by Gordon Browne.

Record # 175724


Price: $30.00 

 

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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