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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 

 

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 

Among the ElephantsDouglas-Hamilton, Iain & Oria

Among the Elephants


Douglas-Hamilton, Iain & Oria

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wear to edges of jacket, light scratching, chipping. Foxing on upper text block.

Record # 2230670


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Desert Dies, A


Asher, Michael

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 330 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An Englishman's travels with the nomads of the Sahara during a catastrophic drought-a remarkable story of friendship and courage. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine, light rubbing and edgewear to rear dust jacket panel. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952440


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Down on The Shore: The Family and Place That Forged A Poet's Voice:A Memoir


Holden, Adele V.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Woodholme House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of a African-American woman poet. Moderate soiling and rubbing to dust jacket. Front flyleaf missing. Black-and-white photos throughout. Rough-cut edges. A tight copy.

Record # 952275


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in SudanScroggins, Deborah

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan


Scroggins, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages. Bright and clean dust jacket. Binding structurally sound. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 809074


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical IconVeal, Michael E.

Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon


Veal, Michael E.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages. Softcover. Light wear to cover, small crease to lower front cover corner. Small stain to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230890


Price: $25.00 

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

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 

 

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 

 

Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story


Pifer, Drury

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: $11.00 

 

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 

LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1914-1931Dinesen, Isak

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 

 

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 

 

Nellie's Story: With a Memoir By Her Daughter Elspeth Huxley


Grant, Nellie

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket and covers. Black and white photos in center.

Record # 2233331


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page


Freed, Lynn

Hardcover. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages, b & w photos, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800782


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 

 

Sahara: Desert of Destiny


Gerster, Georg

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann Inc., First US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Original dust jacket with small tears to edges. Black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers. Pages are clean & unmarked throughout, two pages to rear have strong crease marks to corners. Tight binding.

Record # 6670128


Price: $23.00 

 

Seeking, The


Thomas, Will

Hardcover. New York , A. A. Wyn, Inc., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Scarce. Light tanning and edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a lovely copy.

Record # 854855


Price: $80.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Treetops Hotel


Walker, Eric Sherbrooke

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale Limited, Reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Boards bound in green cloth (faded), gilt title on spine. Pages slightly age-yellow, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight, in great shape.

Record # 5560138


Price: $19.00 

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

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 

 

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 

 

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 

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