africa

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. True account of the kidnapping of an adolescent Morocco girl, the economic problems this presents for her rascally parents, her recovery, and the restoration of her virginity. Originally ran in The New Yorker. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY/London, Routledge, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 233 pages. Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American. He uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and African-Americans and draws a powerful connection between the embracing of white supremacy and Irish "success" in 19th century American society. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, original price intact (5050). A retelling of an African folk tale with wonderful color and b&w artwork throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky. One of four of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories published by Garden City in 1942, all illustrated by Rojankovsky. The other three were: The Elephant's Child; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and How the Camel Got His Hump. Unpaginated [28 pages]; full-color, 2-color, and b&w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. George Rodger began his photographic career with the BBC as a stills photographer. His baptism as a photo reporter came with his appointment as a 'stringer' for Life magazine during the Blitz on London in the most threatening days of 1940. Many of his images from that time are still in constant use, because his instinct has always been to concentrate on the humanity of his subjects, even in the face of terrible adversity.It was for Life that George Rodger embarked on a series of adventures that were to take him to almost every theatre of the Second World War in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.The fulcrum of his career came with the liberation of Belsen. As for the first few days he was the only photographer present, the images he captured became crucially important in making known the depravity of the camps.1948 he embarked on a campaign of photography rediscovering humanity, starting with an expedition from Cape Town to Cairo by road. He found in Africa tribes almost untouched by European influence and was able to create images of enormous power that quickly became world-famous.This book presents the pictures that define George Rodger's long career and a commentary on his extraordinary journey. With a Foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson and over 260 powerful images, it represents a fitting tribute to George Rodger and a celebration of his life's work.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts/Universe Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, 191 illustrations most in color. Bibliography and index. One of the foremost African-American artists of the twentieth century, Horace Pippin came to prominence in the late 1930s between the heyday of the American Scene painters and the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism. An unschooled painter who was a disabled World War I veteran, Pippin is represented in public and private collections across America. I Tell My Heart features over 110 Pippin paintings including many never before reproduced nor shown in public since the artist's lifetime, as well as many black and white archival photographs of Pippin and his contemporaries.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 337 pages. Ibamba is the name of 13 square miles of glorious lion country in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), and also the African adventure of a young American couple who lived there for four years taming the land and its wild inhabitants as ranchers and zoologists.

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. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, 686 pages. Maps on endpapers, frontis. portrait of author. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. The social attitudes of the author are typical of his time, still, an interesting picture of Africa in the 1920s. Bookplate on first blank page, small tear to top of cloth spine, otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 604 pages, 3 fold-out color maps in rear of book. Red coth covers, hinges tender, spine with fading. An account of the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa precedes an historical survey of the non-European inhabitants and the arrival and spread of the European settlers.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth decorated in red, black and gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white images. Includes two fold-out color maps. The publisher's laud Powell's travel book for its "discussion of historical, religious, racial, and political questions for those contemplating a travel to French North Africa, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco during the 1920s." Rear hinge cracked, spine with small tears/punctures otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 547 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white Illustrations and fold-out map in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 540 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white illustrations and 2 fold-out maps in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Pakenham, no stranger to Africa with his award-winning books The Boer War and The Scramble for Africa, nor to remarkable trees with his bestselling Remarkable Trees of the World, combines his two interests on safari in Southern Africa. His particular quarry is the rare, the giant, the very old, the extraordinary, or the simply beautiful-from a giant baobab and a prickly quiver tree in Namibia to a glorious jacaranda in South Africa and sesame bushes attacked by elephants in Botswana. He uncovers trees written about by the great explorers of the past, or associated with magic, folklore, or ritual. The narrative accompanying each image interweaves the stories of Pakenham's own journey-at some moments scaling trees to escape from enraged wildlife, while at others standing in awe before a particular tree, connected by some primitive, atavistic bond-with those of the trees themselves, imbuing each with personality and presence. The result is a beautifully crafted blend of botany and social history, the product of a brilliant photographer, an original mind, and a superlative writer. 208 pages in color. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Chicago, University of Chicago , 6th pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w illustrations. The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Watkins w/readers excerpt booklet laid-in. Tight copy.

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. NY, National Travel Club, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with red lettering, 298 pages. Illustrated with 88 b&w photos. A famous naturalist tells of his adventures in central Africa, accompanied by his photographs. Name and address on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, 338 pages. With wry humor and sharp observation, playwright Pifer elegantly mixes memory and research to reconstruct the world of his South African boyhood from 1933 to 1945. Pifer's father, an idealistic mining engineer in search of challenge and stability during the Depression, found it in Africa, but his earnest American egalitarianism soon put him in conflict with Afrikaner mine overseers, and his career under magnate Sir Ernest Oppenheimer stalled. The author deftly evokes his family--"my mother had the freedom of a disobedient daughter"--and the isolation of the desert town of Oranjemund. The book is even more resonant in its snapshots of mid-century Southern Africa: the still-simmering enmity between Afrikaners and the English; the ripples from Hitler's war in what prior to WW I had been the German territory of South West Africa (currently Namibia). Pifer's knowing account of the travails of servants--"the chasm that exists between white mistress and African maid"--still rings true today. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Michael von Graffenried, an award-winning Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extraordinary accomplishment, however, is these photographs, which form a composite of Algeria that is more whole than the nation itself, fractured by one segment of the population in favor of democracy and another in favor of an Islamic state.Graffenried makes his pictures secretly, using an antique Widelux panoramic camera with a hidden lens. He would risk his picture and his life were he to raise a camera to his eyes. Instead, he shoots from the hip, with his hands clasped over what looks like a pair of binoculars. In learning to frame his photographs without a viewfinder, he opens himself to a rich array of surprise and irony in his pictures, and reveals a society that has been concealed from the international community for nearly seven years.

Softcover. Northampton MA, White Star Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, exhibition catalog. Full of b&w plates. . Catalogue of works from the Charles Derby collection of African art. 136 pieces are pictured and described in brief. With an introduction by Derby, an exhibition checklist, and addendum.

Capetown SA, Fernwood Press/Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear 156 pages. Irma Stern (1894-1966) became a renowned artist in South Africa, the country she chose to live and paint the diversity of life and objects. She painted numerous portraits and still life and Rose to fame as one of their great artists. Herart works are exhibitted around the world, and this book is an attempt to shed some lights on Irma Stern?s life and her paintings. Printed on high quality stock, this oversized volume is jampacked with some of her finest works. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. This book documents the two most recent works by the critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien, both of which continue his investigation of issues of race and global politics. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition writings of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, one of the key members of Robert E. Peary's 1909 Arctic expedition, and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole. True North's diametric counterpart, Fantome Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, Africa's cinematic center, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso. The film is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Black jockeys were internationally famous - the first African American superstar athletes--and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy's troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. Clean copy.