Hardcover. Alburquerque, University of New Mex, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Conversations w/ Walter Satterthwait & Ernie Bulow. Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. In addition to the fun of eavesdropping on the unmistakable camaraderie of these two friends, readers will enjoy the several Satterthwait short stories included here--one of his African series, one featuring his latter-day version of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op in a New Mexico setting, and one previously unpublished masterpiece of comic horror that, as Ernie Bulow points out, was influenced by nothing so much as E-C comics, the popular horror books of the early 1950s.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and yellowing dust jacket. Tromp Kramer, Africaner police detective, and Mickey Zondi, Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg, South Africa, are featured in this fourth detective novel by McClure. Exotic dancer Eve?'s sensual act features a five-foot royal python. When she is discovered in her dressing room dead of strangulation, her dancing partner turns out to be the murder weapon.
Hardcover. East Aurora NY, The Roycrofters; Elbert Hubbard, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's brown suede spine and printed gray boards with title in gilt to spine. Ribbon marker, 82 pages, Initials, borders and ornaments designed by St. Gerome [Jerome Conner]. Top edge gilt, other sides deckle edge. So Here Then Are Dreams is a collection of poetic short stories that deal with the fundamental issues of life such as freedom, justice, and love. Olive Shreiner (1855-1920) South African author, suffragist, and political activist. White title on cover is partially faded, otherwise a sharp, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Small. So you want to be an explorer? What does it take, you ask? To find out, take a look at Judith St. George and David Small's witty collection of some of the best explorers the world has ever known.You know Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, but what about Mary Kingsley, who studied cannibals in Africa, or cowboy Jim White, who, by mistake, found Carlsbad Caverns? Full of boundless energy and illustrations you won't forget, this historical jaunt will inspire the explorer in all of us, young and old.
Softcover. London, James Currey, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wrappers, 211 pages. This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe Publications
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. Clean copy.
New York , Crowell, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Multi-color woodcut illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A small African boy helps his father locate the right tree to make a new canoe to replace the one broken by an alligator. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, oblong, 83 pages. Black & white & red woodcut illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket price-clipped, shows some wear and chipping at edges.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scibner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, color frontis, 82 black & white photos by Dan Weiner. Dust jacket with chunks gone from all edges, closed tears. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. color and Black and white pictures throughout. Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these shops, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.
Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. color and black and white pictures throughout. Simon Weller presents his vivid photographs of these shops, their signage and their patrons alongside interviews with the proprietors, customers and the sign makers.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 303 pages, black & white photos and maps. Name on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four volumes complete, [x], 676p, [1]; [iv], 632p; [iv], 626p; 571p+Index. Full calf binding, marbled edges, spine ribbed with 6 sections, 2 with leather labels and gilt titles. Gilt edge design on all edges, ornate gilt design on spine. Bookplate of Herbert John Gladstone on inside covers. He was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. All volumes are bright and clean. Some minor wear to spine edges.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 406 pages. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 162 pages, b&w photos. Biography of the producer who made four great movies: On the Waterfront; African Queen; Bridge on the River Kwai; and Lawrence of Arabia and lots of mediocrities. Most successful when he assembled talent and let them work, he became controlling and destructive. Very good in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 326 pages, b&w photos. Rosenblum, a journalist, and Williamson, a scientist, explore Africa in the 1980s and report ubiquitous disaster and tragedy. It weaves a backdrop of misguided charity, of bloated egos amid corruption and waste, and of our State Department consistently backing the wrong horse. It is a hard look at a depressing future. Pages tanning slightly, no markings.
Hardcover. Chelsea MI, Scarborough House, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 411 pages, b&w illusttrations. This biography recounts the life of the eccentric and indomitable African explorer Henry M. Stanley (1841-1904), who circumnavigated Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria, fixed the source of the Nile, and traveled the length of the Congo River. Clean copy.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. In a timeless Swahili tale, Leopard and Sungura the hare unknowingly build houses on the same hill, and they eventually meet, and one outwits the other. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in b&w by Tom Feelings. Black cloth covers with gilt snake drawing on front. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 212 pages, fold-out map in rear. Previous owners signature at top of front endpaper. Cover shows wear and sun fading.
Softcover. Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 162 pages, index, genealogy of kings and chiefs, bibliography, chronology, notes. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London , Titan Books , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Clean tight copy. This book covers four complete comic strips from May 1940 to October 1943, and is continued on from "Tarzan in the City of Gold", Book 1 in the series. Mr. Hogarth carries on his new way of art form which is a pleasure to the eye, and the four stories are: Tarzan and the Peoples of the Sea and the Fire, Tarzan Against Dagga Ramba, Tarzan and the Fatal Fountain, and Tarzan and the Barbarians. There is also an introduction by Thomas Yeates. Relive four more tales of Tarzan as his adventures lead him across Africa, fighting for justice in lands unknown or forgotten to civilized man.
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 "Snake by: McClure, James")
 "So Here Then Are Dreams by: Schreiner, Olive")
 "So You Want to Be an Explorer? by: St. George, Judith and David Small")
 "Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War by: Bhebe, Ngwabi (Editor), and Ranger, T O (Editor)")
 "Something Out There: Stories by: Gordimer, Nadine")
 "Song of the Boat by: Graham/Leo and Diane Dillon, Lorenz")
 "Songs and Stories from Uganda by: W. Moses Serwadda Transcribed and edited by Hewitt Pantaleoni Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon")
 "Sotheby's: African, Oceanic & Northwest Coast Art November 16, 2001 by: Sotheby's")
 "South Africa In Transition by: Alan Paton and Dan Weiner")
 "South African Township Barbershops & Salons by: Weller, Simon")
 "South African Township Barbershops & Salons by: Weller, Simon")
 "South-West Africa under German Rule 1894-1914 by: Bley, Helmut")
 "Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, upon questions relating to Public Rights, Duties and Interests; with Historical Introductions, and A Critical Dissertation upon the Eloquence of the Ancients. (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4)")
 "Spider's House, The by: Bowles, Paul")
 "Spiegel: The Man Behind the Pictures by: Sinclair, Andrew")
 "Squandering Eden: Africa at the Edge by: Mort Rosenblum, Doug Williamson")
 "Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer by: McLynn, Frank")
 "Sungura and Leopard - A Swahili Trickster Tale by: Knutson, Barbara")
 "Tales of Temba: Traditional African Stories by: Arnott, Kathleen")
 "Tanganyika Territory; A Study of Economic Policy Under Mandate by: Leubuscher, Charlotte")
 "Tanzania Before 1900/Seven Area Histories by: Andrew Roberts")
 "Tarzan Versus The Barbarians by: Hogarth, Burne and Don Garden")