Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A new pictorial hardcover book with no dust jacket. Text is in German. Features the multimedia works of Robin Rhode, including photography, performance art, film and sculpture..
Hardcover. Kampala Uganda, Saben's Directories, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, 312, 74, , 64 pages. Original publisher's brown cloth boards with black lettering at front and gilt lettering and illustration at spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Laid in is the envelope holding 3 folding maps: Uganda Protectorate Map, East African Railway Map, Kampala Street Plan. Some tanning at edges of pages. Binding is slightly cocked where maps were laid in. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w photographs. An account of the author's trip to French Equatorial Africa and Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital (Lambarene), the author's stay there and conversations with Dr. Schweitzer. The author convinced Schweitzer to lend his name to an educational movement in the U.S. (the nominal reason for the trip), and states that he believes Schweitzer is a much needed Prophet of the divided Western world. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 383 pages including glossary, bibliography, and index. "The history of the great African Safaris. It is the story of 150 years of the ultimate adventure, from the first safari in 1836, as Cornwallis Harris walked across the Transvaal with his double-barreled rifle and ox wagon, discovering the hunter's Garden of Eden, to the last of the great professional hunters, as they struggle today to carry on their tradition in the swamps of Tanzania and the high forests of Ethiopia". Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt lettering, 294 pages. Illustrated with 66 photographs by the author, the famous explorer Martin Johnson, who later became the noted documentary filmmaker in Africa with his wife, Osa. A story of adventure and exploration in Africa, with much information about the extraordinary wildlife, including elephants, lions, rhinos, and gorillas. Fold-out map in rear. Minor edge wear, slight dust soiling, a bit of pitting to the cloth along spine edge. Inscription on first blank page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Engaging account of the author's camel trek across the untamed South Fezzen region of the Sahara Desert, encountering exotic vegetation and prehistoric cave paintings along the way. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Hanover House, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket, 280 pages. " A popular history of the Sahara and the men who have lived and died there to open this wild desert to the world". No markings.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book brings together Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today's Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book brings together Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today's Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Contains some black & white photos of the Sebei people. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. No markings.
Hardcover. Montclair NJ, Allanheld, Osmun, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 266 pages. Illustrated with maps and tables, this study describes and analyse the social and ecological destruction of the 1968-78 Sahel drought and famine, during which more than 100,000 W. Africans died of starvation and hunger related diseases, and livestock herds and agricultural production were critically reduced. It traces the history of this disaster to the impact of French colonial government policy on the fragile ecology of the region and the effects of food and export regulations on agriculture and on the social structure and interrelationships of the tribes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 288 pages Illustrated with 206 b&w photos. What began as simple curiosity blossomed into an object of national pride; when Seydou Keita bought a camera to take pictures of his family, neighbors assumed his services were for hire and enlisted him to take portraits of themselves and their homes, turning a carpenter into a photographer and a hobby into artistic expression. In such a way did the self-taught Keita become the official photographer of Mali from 1962 to 1977, based almost solely on his impeccable reputation for quality and originality that developed by word of mouth. This stunning collection of 206 black-and white-portraits illustrates Keita's pride in his country and his gift for capturing the personalities of his subjects. His aim was to create the most natural settings and poses for the people in front of the lens, putting them at ease and gently nudging them into surrendering their inhibitions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of words and images chronicle the life and habits of animals in the African wild, presenting essays on animal endangerment and drawings, paintings, and sculptures. 71 plates, 23 in color. Clean copy.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Softcover. Binding tight. Some underlining in pencil on a few pages, otherwise clean inside. A touch of foxing to top edge. Wrapper in great shape. Looks great.
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, 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. 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. 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. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative red cloth, 370 pages, no dust jacket, Abrahams was born in the slums of Johnannesburg and later moved to England. Autobiography of author's 22 years of struggle before he left South Africa. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 398 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. About the Boer War and the rescue of the garrison at Ladysmith, Natal, under siege by 5,000 Boer farmers. One map with bottom corner torn, affecting several words on caption, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Softcover. London, C Hurst & Co, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. An analysis of the background to the current crisis in Algeria, placing in perspective the threats to the state posed by Islamic fundamentalism and economic mismanagement. It looks at the role of the National Liberation Front (FLN), international relations, the economy, and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf to fellow anthropologist William Mitchell.Images of the Bushman--from the innocent hero of the hit movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, to "vermin" eradicated by the colonists, to the superhuman trackers conscripted by the South African Defense Forces, and the living embodiment of prehistory for the academic--shape our perceptions rather than the actuality. Looking at this interplay between imagery, history, and policy, Robert Gordon focuses not on the Bushman but on the colonizers' image of them and the consequences of that image for the people assumed to be Bushmen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Foreword by George Orwell. Introduction by Christopher Fyfe. 241 pages. Reprints two books by Irish novelist Joyce Cary (1888-1957), "The Case for African Freedom" (1941) and "Britain and West Africa" (1946), and three shorter magazine pieces. Illustrated in black and white, with three maps of Africa. Cary was English novelist who served in the Nigerian political service.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 466 pages. Examines how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations manipulated the 1960-1963 Congo crises and countered Soviet influence on Lumumba, Tshombe, and Mobotu. Name on front fly leaf, light spotting to top edge,otherwise clean.
Softcover. London/Berkeley, James Currey/University of California, 1989, Softcover, 422 pages, despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism--commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The bloody hostilities between the tribally-oriented Zulu Inkhata movement and supporters of the African National Congress are but the most recent example of tribalism's tenacity. The studies in this volume offer a new historical model for the growth and endurance of such ideologies in southern Africa. Name on front fly leaf, underlining to Introduction, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1959-1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes: Vol. 1, East Africa November 1889 to December 1890, 432 pages. Vol. 2, East Africa December 1890 to December 1891, 481 pages. Vol. 3, East Africa January 1892 to August 1892, 454 pages. Vol. 4, Nigeria 1894-5 and 1898, 444 pages. Black-and-white illustrations and maps; Bindings vary: Vols. 1, 3 and 4 are matching green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Vol. 2 is terra-cotta cloth with a black clorh spine. Previous owner'e signature in 1 and #. Otherwise clean and tight set.
Hardcover. London, Edward Arnold, 2nd pr., 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blue cloth covers worn with faded gilt lettering. Frontis. missing, hinges cracked, B&w photos, folding maps present. An account of the British territories in East Africa, intended as a guide for prospective colonisers, and future developers. Topics discussed include the physical geography, native peoples such as the Swahilis, the Masai, Somalis, and Nandi, vegetations and animals, slavery, the Uganda railway and more. Sir Charles Eliot was a British colonial administrator and commissioner for the Protectorate of British East Africa, now Kenya.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 318 pages, b&w photos. Travel adventures in one of the last strongholds of polygamy, Cameroon. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Describes the author's experiences traveling through Africa, meeting and talking with warriors, activists, and poachers. 334 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 115 pages illustrated in b&w line by Enrico Arno. This entertaining collection of twenty-one folk tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa takes its title from the wild 'dance' the spider Anansi performed when he tried to hide some burning hot beans under his hat. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Red Sea Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages. This book tells the story about an African Jewish community known as the Beta Israel that used to live in the northern part of Ethiopia. They were repatriated to Israel in many waves with the aid of the Israeli government and the Jewish Diaspora. The Beta Israel had struggled and faced hardships in order to live out their destiny which was to migrate to the Promised Land. However, their struggle did not stop there. They have had to struggle again to overcome unexpected and new challenges after their long anticipated migration. The book is organized around these two issues. The early chapters of the book describe the quest for Beta Israel identity within Ethiopia and explore their origins. The discussion on this topic is based on mainly textual analyses of previous works on the Beta Israel. It outlines their history and explores their origins. It examines whether the different types of oppressive Ethiopian regimes have contributed to their decision to leave for the Promised Land. It sketches the socio-economic background of the twentieth-century Aliyah, and briefly analyses the impact of the political upheavals in Ethiopia between 1974 and 1991 when the Derg, the post Haile Selassie military regime, was in power.
Softcover. London, September Publishing, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 302 pages. A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow-orange cloth with stamped gilt lettering. One of the earliest and most comprehensive ethnographical studies of the Khoisan peoples. The interior contents (xi + 450 pp.) are clean, complete, and securely bound. These contents include two rear fold-out maps and 16 b&w plates. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University Of California Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 278 pages. History of the Pedi's struggle to keep the land that belonged to them in South Africa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 227 pages. "In North Africa, between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, [are] four...States...Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Together they form what the Arabs call 'The Maghrib', and Sir Geoffrey Furlonge calls 'The Lands of Barbary'." Black and white photographic plates.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine. 451 pages, 14 illustrations, 3 maps. A comprehensive history of Tanganyika. Previous owner's signature, date on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 355 pages, frontis, 64 plates from photos, two colored folding maps each showing author's route, index. . The author, a popular travel writer and explorer, traveled from the Indian Ocean, across Tanganyika and the Congo to the Atlantic, and described the peoples, tribes and nature in some detail. The photographs are by Rexford W Barton and by the author. Corners bumped, fading to gilt on spine, rear hinge cracked.
Softcover. UK, Penguin Books, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 317 pages. The roots of apartheid. The book relates the history of a small people, the Afrikaners, and their attempts to remake their particular world according to a rational plan from the radical Right. First published in 1975. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 223 pages. The Nzema of West Africa, who inhabit a land of forest and lagoons along the Atlantic, continue a heritage untapped by anthropologists and scarcely influenced by Western civilization. Vinigi L. Grottanelli first discovered the rich culture of this southern Ghanaian tribe in 1954. Over the next three decades, intermittent sojourns enabled Grottanelli to develop friendships with the Nzema and learn about their beliefs, traditions, and practices. In twenty absorbing vignettes, The Python Killer renders a vivid portrayal of Nzema life. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 362 pages including index and bibliography. Map. Footnotes. Illustrations. This was the first comprehensive and thoroughly documented study of the political evolution of these two then emerging nations of tropical Africa. Basing his analysis on a variety of primary sources, including interviews with many leading figures, the author traces the origins of the full-fledged political parties in both Malawiand Zambia and describes the formation and development of the early Congresses which were to become the dominant movements during their struggles for independence.
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 "SABEN'S COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY AND HANDBOOK OF UGANDA 1960-61 by: SIMPSON, J. T (forward) G. P. Saben ( Ed.)")
 "Songs and Stories from Ugandaby: W. Moses Serwadda Transcribed and edited by Hewitt Pantaleoni Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon")
 "South African Township Barbershops & Salonsby: Weller, Simon")
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