My Father's Daughter (African Reader's Library no. 2)
African Universities Press, 1965. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 80 pages First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated blue wrappers (paperback).
Africa
A Journal, Comprising an Account of the Loss of the Brig Commerce ... Upon the Desert of Zahara,...with Accounts of the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the Wandering Arabs; also a Brief Historical and Geographic View of the Continent of Africa
F.D. Bolles & Co, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. 258 pages. First edition thus. A very good copy in leather covers with 'Robbins Journal' printed in gilt on spine. Leather is worn. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. Prior owner signature on title page, dedication page and rear free endpaper. All.....
A Short Study of the Western Mandinka Language
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.
Omayeletumbulo Gaawambo
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.....
Desert Love
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).
Chief of Seers: Egyptian Studies in Memory of Cyril Aldred
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.
Kwena. Kgari Sechele II (Molepolole, Botswana)
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.....
Black and White
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.....
Biafra Goodbye
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.....
THE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHWEST AFRICA
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).
Mottled Lizard (International Collectors Library)
Chatto and Windus Ltd, January 1982. Hardcover.
Carte Routiere de Madagascar au 1:2.000.000
Service Geographique, 1954. Map. 34 by 17-1/4 when unfolded. One-sided color road map of the island of Madagascar. With inset maps of the capital city. Uncommon. Very good. Light stain on front panel, not affecting map.
Fez, ciudad santa de los árabes (Notas de un viaje al Norte de África)
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.....
Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen
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.....
The Washing Of The Spears - A History Of The Rise And Fall Of The Zulu Nation Under Shaka And Its Fall In The Zulu War Of 1879
Simon & Schuster/A Touchstone Book, January 1986. Hardcover.
A New Light Thrown Across the Keep it Quite Darkest Africa: A Satirical and Humorous Sketch
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.
Wise Sayings of Liberia
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.....
El Wasît: Litterature, histoire, geographie, moeurs et coutumes des habitants de la Mauritanie
Centre IFAN, 1953. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 150 pages. Translated into French by Mourad Teffahi. Folding map at rear. This is the first French edition of an important 1911 work on Mauritanian culture. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Copy 8 of an unspecified number of copies.....
1,111 Bemba Proverbs
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.
Proverbes Mongo
Commission de Lenguistique Africaine, 1958. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 828 pages. 2670 proverbs followed by a short index by subject. Mongo is a Bantu language spoken in Congo. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). A large, heavy book.
Ohabolana, or Malagasy Proverbs, Illustrating the Wit and Wisdom of the Hova of Madagascar. Parts I and II
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.....
Contes du Larhalle, suivis d'un recueil de proverbes et de devises du pays mossi
Chez l'auteur, 1963. Trade Paperback. 215 pages. Rediges et presentes par Robert Pageard. Stories of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso with a section of proverbs in the Moore language, with French translations and explanations. This copy is dated 1963 on the title page, but 1964 on the cover and.....
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
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.
The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia (Two volume set)
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.....
Maasai
Harry N. Abrams, August 1990. Hardcover. The author recounts ancient Maasai legends and songs, and powerfully describes the vivid ceremonies that mark the passages in Maasai life....Everyday tribal life and the ceremonial high points are photographed with a clarity and eye for drama that make Maasai a breathtaking experience.