africa fiction

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the colonizers carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, 'Afterlives' is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 63 pages. 18 three-color illustrations by Desmond Smith. Child's writing in pencil front endpaper. Edgewear. Corners worn. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping. Brodart cover. Dust jacket price clipped.

London , Collins, reprint , 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 255 pages. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Soiling, edgewear to dust jacket. Being the life story of Ralph Rudd, his early adventures, perils and misfortunes on land and sea, including sundry close encounters with high-jacking, mutiny and violence off the African Slave Coast.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.

New York , Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages, b&w illustrations by Peter Spier, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, note card from author also laid in.

Hardcover. El Paso, TX, Sweet Earth Flying Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Penned by two of the most famous African American writers of the 1930s, this never-before-published coming-of-age story chronicles the adventures of a 12-year-old Mexican boy, Miguel Del Monte, who joins his uncle in herding wild broncos from northern Mexico to Los Angeles. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this historic tale follows Miguel as he embarks on this unexpected trip across the American Southwest desert, determined to prove himself brave and smart enough to deal with the anticipated hardships. Along with a close encounter with roving bandits and the dangerous forces of nature, Miguel has bittersweet interactions with people of diverse racial and cultural groups, learning important lessons along the way. Separated into concise episodes and reflecting the beauty of various peoples, this collection depicts the power of tolerance and multicultural inclusion.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with some chipping. A novel of intrigue set in post World War II North Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY , Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Frederick Chapman. Nice in a spine-sunned dust jacket.

Philadelphia , John Winston, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Clean copy in a nice dust jacket, pages tanning. Caleb Willows, a 16-year-old slave, makes a break for freedom and later is a student at Fisk University in Tennessee. He becomes one of the Jubilee Singers, eleven young African Americans who tour the United States and England singing spirituals in order to raise money for the school.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 4 b&w plates. Covers with edge wear, gilt slightly faded. Library bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, no markings.

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Bright dust jacket. Juvenile suspense novel set in North Africa, involving a modern (1960s) day Prester John character.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast-a secret mission, a dark voyage. A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafes of North Africa.

Hardcover. London, UK, W.H. Allen / Virgin Books, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Publisher's release and photo of author laid in. Foxing to top edge. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy. The author's first work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia."

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 242 pages. Tan cloth cover. Rear hinge cracked. Illustrated endpapers. Stain to front cover, mild soiling to spine. Corners bumped. Small hole to about 20 pages on outside edge. An adventure set in the North African desert, uncommon.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ALEXANDER half title-page. Color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Small tear to front dust jacket cover but otherwise lovely, new-looking, clean condition. States First Edition but number line starts with 2.

hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Novel based on a true piece of colonial history when 25 European radicals met on Lamu planning to travel inland & set up a Utopia on Mount Kenya.

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Translated by the author. Dust jacket good only with edgewear and front with tear and creasing to top edge and with light residue mark. Internally very good.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Mylar cover. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new. "A haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned" - in Africa where a man is recounting his days during the slave trade, in America with a young man serving a sentence of life imprisonment, and in Europe, where a woman, survivor of the Holocaust, realizes that she cannot really escape.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters. The top 2 inches of the cardboard spine is missing. Binding sound. One of the six discontinued Seuss titles.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red illustrated boards, no dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Rubbing and edgewear to boards, corners worn, especially top of spine., though book binding is not affected, pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Early printing, mid-50s, 16 titles on rear cover starting with Yertle the Turtle. This is the tall 12x9 retail edition; not the smaller book club edition. Copyright page has the Redbook reference that was removed in the bookclub editions. This copy has the original illustration of 2 Seuss characters with a black complexion from the fictional African island of Yerka; which has since become objectionable; also stereotypical drawings of Asian characters.

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.