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.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Faint toning.
246 pp. "A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Faint edge wear.
246 pp. "A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images.....
New York: Owl / Henry Holt and Company, 2003. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Third printing. Spine creased, edge wear.
xv, 681 pp., plus 28-page excerpt from The Day of Battle: Volume Two of The Liberation Trilogy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the.....
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.....
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges slightly worn.
xxi, 438 pp. A sweeping examination of the role of "Black Power" in the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City reveals the emergence of militancy and political consciousness in American sports.
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. 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
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New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge.
470 pp. ""Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature." --New York Times Book Review "The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some.....
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, 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......
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, 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: 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.....
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.....
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.....
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: Mentor, 1968. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Related article laid in. Toning, faint edge wear.
718 pp. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism reflecting a potent force in American writing today. Authors include: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, LeRoi Jones, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket.
439 pp. Arctic and African travelogue. An unusual book about an unusual man, Talbot Clifton, who inherited a fortune at the end of the nineteenth century and spent his time travelling the world on wild.....
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.....