Nine Faces of Kenya
Penguin Books, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Penguin Books, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Earth Aware Editions, April 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Discover the multifaceted culture of the African Maasai through the journal entries and photos of a young Western woman who lived among them.
National Literacy Campaign, Department of Public Instruction, 1953. First Edition. Pamphlet. 52 pages. Illustrated with vignettes by Blanche Britte. A collection of proverbs, presented in literal English translation from the oral Kpelle, followed by English explanations. The proverbs were collected in the Formah Chiefdom and originally published in two small.....
Trischler and Company, [1891]. Hardcover. 176 pages plus ads. Includes a two-page spread design for spoof board game about Henry Morton Stanley, the African explorer. 'Fifteenth thousand.' Probably a second or three printing, undated, but early 1890s. An attractive copy in the publisher's cloth.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, (n.d. but 1950s?). First Edition. Trade Paperback. 120 pages. Proverbs in the Laadi dialect, with French translations. OCLC locates three copies, one in the US, at Duke. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Language Centre, 1966. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 174 pages. Proverbs organized by topic. Proverb in Bemba followed by an English translation. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Bookplate on inside front cover.
Chatto and Windus Ltd, January 1982. Hardcover.
Editorial 'Cultura', 1927. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 59 pages. The Guatemalan poet writes of his experience in Morocco in 1926. The book was recently reprinted in Guatemala and also translated into Polish. OCLC records six copies in three entries. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Pages unopened.....
Robert Laffont, 1950. Trade Paperback.
Harper & Brothers, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 331 pages. Illustrations by Paul Whitman. Travel book across Africa and first work of non-fiction by this Broadway playwright and Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in black cloth with white lettering on spine. Dust jacket is tanned at.....
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 173 pages. Vol. XIX, No. 1, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Twowindows Press, 1970. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 45 pages. This story of Gold's trip Biafra originally appeared in Harper's Magazine. Limited edition, 1/1100. Cover art by Satty. Signed by the author on title page. Limited edition, #2/100 copies in flexible leather wrapper. First edition (first printing). A very good copy.....
Kegan Paul International, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. Contains 28 essays. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Musee Royal De l'Afrique Centrale, 1963. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. 1170 Congolese proverbs, in Kikongo and French. With indexes. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Bookplate of the proverb collector Victor de Guinzbourg.
Finnish Missionary Society, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 228 pages. Book is a collection of Oshiewambo proverbs, a Bantu language in southwest Africa. Finnish missionaries arrived in the area in 1870 and led to Oshiwambo language in written form. Archer Taylor (1890-1973) was a specialist in American and European folklore, with.....
Published on behalf of the Government of Gambia by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1935. Hardcover. 110 pages. A study of the language spoken in West Africa. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the lightly faded spine.
Friends' Foreign Missionary Association, 1915-1916. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 146, iii; 141, v , iv pages. Part I: 1236 proverbs; Part II: 1080 proverbs, and 100 Betsimisaraka proverbs with equivalents in Hova Malagasy. The Hova were the middle caste in the Kingdom of Merina in Madagascar, situated between the slaves.....
The Macaulay Company, 1920. Hardcover. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. Dust jacket is chipped along head and foot of spine and parts of the front cover have been ripped away (presumably from stickers which were not cleanly removed).
(Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar), 1964. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 221 pages. Text in Umbundu (a language of Angola) and Portuguese. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
(Central Mission Press), [1936]. First Edition. Hardcover. 285, [1] pages. Published with the assistance of a grant made by the Carnegie Corporation through the Research Grant Board, Union of South Africa. A collection of Tonga, Tswa, and Ronga proverbs, riddles, and proverbials names. 892 proverbs, plus names and nicknames and.....
Vintage, June 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A portrait of sub-Sahara Africa that covers recent events plus a report on the author's visit to Ethiopia during the famine.
Cambridge University Press, December 1979. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his.....
Harper Collins, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 442 pages. Recounts visits to the author's childhood home between 1982-1992 following a twenty-five-year ban for her opposition to the minority white government. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Henry Holt, 1994. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
H & Row, January 1959. Hardcover.