africa fiction

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, The Epworth Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Stories and fables from French West Africa. 126 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 11th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works. 970 pages, Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages, illustrated in b&w by E. Harper Johnson. Dust jacket very good, price-clipped.

Softcover. Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY ORFORD and dated 2009 on half-title page. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to re-visit memories of the brutal rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town's crime rings. Is her investigation into human trafficking linked to the murders or is the killer just playing a sick game with her? Like Clockwork is a dark and compelling crime story which exposes the underbelly of porn and prostitution in today's South Africa.

Hardcover. London, Atlantic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ORFORD and dated 2009 on title page. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to re-visit memories of the brutal rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town's crime rings. Is her investigation into human trafficking linked to the murders or is the killer just playing a sick game with her? Like Clockwork is a dark and compelling crime story which exposes the underbelly of porn and prostitution in today's South Africa.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by James Teason. Light residue sticker to inside front cover, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light fading to edge, spine.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light soil to top pages, abrasion on title page. Black and white pictures throughout, some color.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Notable Book. With an African American protagonist, this is a young adult coming of age book set in hills scarred by strip mining. Newbery Medal on front jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages illustrated with b&w photographs by the author. The story of a little Arab girl. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zondervan, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 94 pages. "The story of a Scottish lassie who went to the west coast of Africa and tamed the savage tribes ..." Color frontis., Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wraps, 616 pages. Clean, bright copy. Sojourner Nadine Jane Johnson, also known as Mosquito, is an African-American truck driver. Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of her accidental and yet growing involvement in "the new underground railroad," a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants. Mosquito's journey begins when she discovers Maria, a stowaway who nearly gives birth in the back of the truck; Maria will eventually name her baby Journal, a misspelled tribute to her unwitting benefactor Sojourner. Along the road, Mosquito introduces us to Delgadina, a Chicana bartender who fries cactus, writes haunting stories, and studies to become a detective - one of the most original and appealing characters in all of Jones's fiction. We also meet Monkey Bread, a childhood pal who is, improbably, assistant to a blonde star in Hollywood, where Mosquito pays her a memorable visit. As her understanding of the immigrants' need to forge new lives and identities deepens, so too does Mosquito's romance with Ray, a gentle revolutionary, philosopher, and, perhaps, a priest.

Hardcover. NY, Friendship Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with silver stamping, 128 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Kurt Wiese. The adventures of Mpengo and his sister who live in a village in the Congo.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Lily. The school experiences of a young boy attending school in Uganda.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers with gilt and 2-color decoration, 277 pages. Sixteen b&w plates by Warwick Reynolds. Front flap copy glued to front fly leaf. This is the story of Naju, fourth son of the great African king of Nuan who is sent out to find his way in the world. Spine darkened, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages. This is a rivetting chronicle by two visitors to a complex world rarely seen by outsiders: the vibrant daily lives of West African villagers, and the parellel, invisible realm of spirits that surround them. This beautifully written memoir recounts the deepening knowledge slowly acquired by Alma Gottlieb, a cultural anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived among the Beng, a previously unstudied people of Cote d'Ivoire. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cape Town SA, Umuzi, 2nd pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A crime thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR5 on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial red cloth covers with two children riding a camel. 287 pages, b&w stock photos throughout, nice color illustration as frontispiece. Inscription on first blank page, library stamp on front fly leaf, no other markings. A simplistic tale and view of Africa, typical of a 30s young reader book.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Black cloth covers with faded gilt title. 126 pages with frontispiece illustration in 2-colors by Robert Locher. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published with a generous introduction by Carl Van Vechten, who was intent on making Firbank's work better known in America. Understandably, the inflammatory title roused an outcry in the African American press, though Nancy Cunard wrote a defense of Firbank and his use of the name in the Associated Negro Press, and the novel received a surprisingly positive review by W.E.B. Du Bois. Light shelf wear.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration.Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Johannesburg, Tafelberg , 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The South African edition of Sara Whitcher's Story, SIGNED BY YATES on title page. Dutch text. B&W illustrations by Nora S. Unwin.