Blanford, July 1984. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. The most powerful warrior tribe Africa has ever known -- disciplined, fearless, highly mobile and familiar with the terrain. Opposing them stood a handful of well-armed British regiments hampered by supply and transport problems, lack of intelligence, etc......
Mariner Books Classics, March 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our.....
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The.....
Henry Holt, 1994. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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.
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.
Penguin Books, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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.....
Kgari Schele II Secondary School, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 47 pages plus 8 pages of ads. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. School publication including poems and stories by the students, B/W photos, forward by the headmaster, report of club activities. First edition (first printing). Very good in blue illustrated wrappers.....
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.....
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).
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.....
University of Capetown Press, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 383 pages. 9 by 11-1/2 inches. Illustrated through out. An important museum exhibition monograph. *** Skotnes, an art professor and book artist, curated a major exhibition about the San, the 'Bushmen' of South Africa. The intent of the exhibit at the.....
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.
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.....
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.
University Books, 1968. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1920 edition. Volume I: 423 pages. Volume II: 433 pages. “A great classic of African ethnography, this is one of the most comprehensive accounts available of life of an African people (in what is now Zambia), and the turn of the [twentieth] century.....
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (n.d. but 1894?). First Edition. Trade Paperback. 59 pages. 4 by 6-1/2 inches. An early literary work in this Bantu family language spoken on the coast of Tanzania. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy of cloth wrappers. Bookplate of proverb collector Victor de.....
De Gruuthuuse Persen, 1928. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 144 pages plus [1] index. Text in Ngbandi (a language of the Congo) and Dutch. The title translates as The soul of the Ngbandi people: Proverbs, tales, songs. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; pages tanned as usual. Rebound in.....
(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).
Goemaere, Imprimeur du Roi, 1923. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 152 pages. Text in French and Songe (also called Songye, Kisonge, Lusonge, Yembe, and Northeast Luba), a Bantu language of the Congo. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg, a collector of.....
Imprimerie Paul Attinger, 1905. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 247 pages. Extrait due Bulletin de la Societe Neuchateloise de Geographie, vol. XVI. Proverbs in the Bantu language of the Fang people of Gabon, in Bantu and French. Scarce. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Bookplate of proverb collector.....
(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.....
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The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. Hardcover. 368 pages. Reproduced from typescript. A new translation of a collection of traditional Hausa folklore and proverbs, collected around the turn of the 20th century by Edgar from informants and Arabic manuscripts. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, probably as issued.....