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French Lessons in Africa: Travels With My Briefcase Through French Africa Biddlecomb, Peter
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French Lessons in Africa: Travels With My Briefcase Through French Africa


Biddlecomb, Peter

Softcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 434 pages, clean. A hilarious account of Peter Biddlecmbe's ten years traveling across West Africa on a long and lingering 'liason dangereuse' with the sixty per cent of the continent that is French-speaking.

Record # 415164


Price: $11.00 

 

Nellie's Story


Grant, Nellie

Hardcover. New York , Morrow, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The mother of Elspeth Huxley recounts her life in East Africa before WWI in letters, with a memoir by Huxley

Record # 175238


Price: $20.00 

 

John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence


Muir, John, Michael P. Branch

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight. Green endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Like new. Michael Branch has elegantly and creatively helped imagine John Muir's "missing years" and his astonishing journey to the tropics.

Record # 31567


Price: $25.00 

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African by: Equiano, Olaudah Edit. Costanzo, Angelo
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African by: Equiano, Olaudah Edit. Costanzo, Angelo

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
Price: $15.00 

 

Lion In the Morning


Seaton, Henry, Illust. by: Victor G. Ambrus

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. by Victor Ambrus. 229 pages. Light edgewear to dj, price clipped. Previous owner's signature front end paper.

Record # 60123


Price: $20.00 

 

Tell Freedom - Memories of Africa


Abrahams, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 124919


Price: $15.00 

Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story by: Pifer, Drury
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Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story by: Pifer, Drury

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.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
Price: $12.00 

LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-1931 Dinesen, Isak
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LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-1931


Dinesen, Isak

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1984, #0. Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: None, Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Small crease to bottom edge to page 378. Discoloration to page edges. . 516 pages. Record #:467153

Record # 467153


Price: $15.00 

 

Ambulance in Africa


Thomas, Evan

Hardcover. New York, NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, First Edition, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with brick colored titles to spine. Light wear to crown & heel of spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light toning to edges throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751212


Price: $25.00 

 

Blind African Slave, The, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace (SIGNED)


Brace, Jeffrey

Paperback. Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf, inscribed to Bill McKibben. The life and times of Jeffrey Brace, a well-respected abolitionist with legendary powers of memory.

Record # 952492


Price: $31.00 

 

Farthing Candle, The


Farquharson, Ronald

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Black fabric covers. Author photo glued to page opposite title page and original cover from dust jacket partially glued to title page. Spine slightly cocked. Mostly clean inside with a touch of foxing to endpapers and edges. Original owner inscription on front endpaper dated 1955, and personalized ink stamp on top edge. In very good shape considering age.

Record # 30650


Price: $19.00 

 

By the Evidence - Memoirs 1932-1951


Leakey, L.S.B.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 2nd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 276 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60132


Price: $15.00 

 

Child of Two Worlds - Kikiyu's Story


Gatheru, R. Jugo

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Ink notation s, underlining to about third of the pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 64126


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Double Lives - An Autobiography


Plomer, William

Hardcover. NY, Noonday Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with light soil, rubbing.

Record # 107547


Price: $15.00 

 

Road to Ophir


Tremlett, Rex

London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, light tears, chips, especially at spine.

Record # 176330


Price: $15.00 

 

Gods of Noonday - A White Girl's African Life


Orr, Elaine Neil

Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good ,

Record # 304641


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

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

 

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. New York, 1st, August 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 239 pages, several b&w maps. Large piece missing from rear of dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451718


Price: $80.00 

 

Electronic Elephant, The


Jacobson, Dan

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages. Light bumping to corners, foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with minor wear and sunning to lower edge of front cover. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 452896


Price: $15.00 

Long Way Gone, A : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Beah, Ishmael
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Long Way Gone, A : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Beah, Ishmael

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Clean, tight copy in lovely condition. Record # 453528
Price: $12.00 

Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-89 Bowles, Paul
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Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-89


Bowles, Paul

Softcover. US, Peter Owen Publishers, 1st us, 1990-05-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Soft Cover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 466759


Price: $25.00 

 

Throw Out Two Hands


Smith, Anthony

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., First Edition, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with white printed titles to spine. Full color photography throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751233


Price: $13.00