London: Tinsley Brothers, 2001. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
#378 of 500 copies, printed in facsimile in 2001 after the 1863 original. Edges lightly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy.
viii, [2], 303; 295 pp. Fold-out map follows text of first volume. A first-hand account by scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton, based.....
New York: Osprey, 2006. Hook, Christa. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An excellent copy.
64 pp. Osprey's study of the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-1960) in Kenya and its fighters. The Mau Mau Freedom Fighters waged a guerrilla war for eight years against their British colonial rulers, which became known.....
New York: Scholastic, 2010. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
6th printing. Faint edge wear.
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
xiv, 465 pp. Tables, figures, and maps throughout. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly.....
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2010. Ruggeri, Raffaele. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Top corner lightly creased.
64 pp. This book explores the experiences of the German Afrikakorps soldier during the North Africa campaign, from the Korps' arrival in–theatre in February 1941 to its eventual surrender in Tunisia in May.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Faint edge wear.
229 pp. "This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For David Mihalgou." A nice copy.
229 pp. "This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 9th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Ninth printing. An exceptional copy.
229 pp. "This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going.....
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Some ink underlining and marginalia, some pages dog-eared.
272 pp. In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is.....
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor ink mark on rear jacket panel.
xii, 328 pp. The Sikh Wars; The Third China war, 1860; The Expedition to Abyssinia, 1867-8; The Ashanti Campaign, 1873-4; The South African War, 1880-1; The Egyptian Campaign, 1882; The Reconquest.....
. Stanley Publishing Co., 1889. Hard Cover.
Binder's copy, boards completely loose from text block. Boards soiled, ink name on second blank.
800 pp. Illustrated with engravings, color plates and maps. In 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Walker, A.B. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Multiple chips and tears (some mended with tape) to jacket edges, front jacket flap price clipped. Boards lightly faded, ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper.
246 pp. Drawings by A.B. Walker. Bradford's works of fiction and folklore were.....
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. Johnson, E. Harper. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Jacket edges rubbed, half inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, smaller tear along top edge of rear jacket panel.
128 pp. An Ethiopian boy learns modern ways from an American
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New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1999. 1st Canadian Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Laminate starting.
xiv, 746 pp. "In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won.....
New York: Grove Press, 2019. Hard Cover.
A fine copy in a fine jacket.
376 pp. 2019 National Book Award Winner. Author's first book. "In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of.....
New York: Signet, 1965. 15th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
15th printing. Faint toning, light edge wear.
During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
viii, 320 pp. In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters.....
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. A fine copy.
xv, 279 pp. When a popular revolt forced long-ruling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign on February 11, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the victory of peaceful demonstrators in the heart of the.....
New York: Dover, 1971. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Ink name.
xv, 234 pp. With 20 illustrations. For millennia, Egypt, the dark land, has been considered the home of magic. The feats of her priests and magicians were renowned throughout the ancient world, from the simplest legerdemain (according to.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
xvi, 235 pp. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm.....
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. Leighton, Clare. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription by illustrator Clare Leighton on half-title page. Includes original jacket with $3.00 price on flap. Ink name stamp on front endpaper, board edges slightly faded, otherwise book is very well preserved. Jacket.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Minor tears to jacket spine head.
xix, 220 pp. A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson, a grand tale of.....
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Company, 1881. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Ink gift note on front free endpaper, light general wear.
761 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles and decorations. A biographical account of the careers of two famous explorers of the African continent, gleaned from their memoirs and contemporary sources.....
Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top page ridge lightly foxed.
223 pp. A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way. In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands.....