New York: Back Bay Books, 2009. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. A fine copy.
260, 8 pp. "Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty.....
Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1987. Reprint. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
ix, [1], 181, [1] pp. "Of all the many colonial campaigns of the Victorian era, few have gripped the imagination more than the Zulu War of 1879. Its dramatic events and the high courage displayed by men.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Signed Copy. 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.....
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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Top edge very faintly foxed.
xi, 225 pp. "Offers a series of portraits of the "white tribe" in Africa that demonstrates the great European spirit of adventure in figures past and present, including Blixen.....
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
.....
New York: Signet, 1966. Mass Market Paperback.
Front wrapper lightly foxed, spine creased, rear wrapper creased, pages lightly toned.
viii, 429 pp. Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable stories of our time. This is a thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a......
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: United Book Guild, 1964. Revised Edition. Hard Cover.
Revised, limited edition, one of 500 copies. Unnumbered. No jacket. Boards lightly foxed, top corners bumped.
251 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Authors Foreword; Clothing; Ornament; Hair-Dress; Decoration of the Skin; The Body; Hygiene; Social Differentiation of the Sex; Relation of the.....
New York: Horizon Press, 1961. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Lacks slipcase. Volume I: Jacket stained along base. Both volumes: Jacket edges rubbed; boards lightly faded.
Two volume set. xxii, 412; vi, 468 pp. Introduction by Alan Moorehead. Includes all 35 of the famed original illustrations. An engrossing record of explorations.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1994. Trade Paperback.
Wrappers creased, half inch tear along spine base, laminate starting to peel, page corners lightly dog-eared.
li, 1093 pp. "From all over the world and through the ages, here is a dazzling collection of two hundred women writers of African descent, showcased as.....
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.....
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
152 pp. By the writer Marvel's Black Panther comic series. National Book Award Winner. "In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate.....
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.....
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1993. Second Revised Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition, revised. Sticker ghost on publisher slipcase. Spine of Volume 1 creased.
ix, 462; ix, 450 pp. Two volume set in publisher slipcase. First published in 1979, this is the classic sourcebook for the emergence of Black Thelogy.....
Tallahassee, Florida: The Naiad Press, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Sticker ghost and surface tear on rear cover.
129 pp. Anita Cornwell (born September 23, 1923) is an American lesbian feminist author. In 1983 she wrote the first collection of essays by an African-American lesbian, Black Lesbian.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears, jacket price-clipped, jacket soiled. Page ridges lightly foxed.
311 pp. Alex Haley plagiarized parts of this novel when writing Roots, and settled with Courlander and his publisher for $650,000 out of.....
London: Church Missionary Society, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Front board bowed, pencil name and scribble on front free endpaper.
176 pp. Preface by the Bishop of Mombasa. Foreword by Eugene Stock. CONTENTS: Weithaga; Kahuhia; Embu.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Brazelton, Julian. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed with some small chips and small tears to edges, front jacket flap clipped with price in tact. Page ridges foxed.
341 pp. THE author stepped almost directly from the Madison Avenue subway into Rhodesia.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979. Davis, J.A. Hard Cover.
Ink stamp to front endpaper, page ridges lightly foxed. Jacket lightly rubbed and lightly toned.
215 pp. "The life of Samaki, a spot-necked otter from Tanzania, from eight weeks old. Through his eyes are seen the other inhabitants of the African.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A bit musty, ink name & date partially crossed out on front flyleaf.
v, 374, [2] pp. 8vo. A 19th century overview of Morocco and its citizens, with illustrations throughout text.
New York: Public Affairs, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Small tear along top edge of front jacket panel.
xi, 288 pp. Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had.....
New York: Perennial, 2001. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Sixth printing. Ink gift note on half-title page, pages toned.
228 pp. Black & white photographs. "Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams.....
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2003. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
2003 reissue of 1892 edition, constituting the final revised text of the work first published in 1845, and expanded in 1855 and 1881. Edgewear at spine head and spine base.
xxi, 470 pp. Born around 1817 in Maryland, Frederick Douglass.....