The Boa Suitor. Illustrated by John Cottrell
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1970. Second Printing. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 56pp. Near Fine. Elementary English-language reader for Nigerian children. Igbo author. More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1970. Second Printing. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 56pp. Near Fine. Elementary English-language reader for Nigerian children. Igbo author. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Anthropological study of the Twi people of the Gold Coast (now Guinea), based on Ellis's observations as a British army officer during and after the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874). Octavo. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; floral endpapers; vii,[1]-343pp; map..... More
Capetown: Nasionale Pers, 1930. First Edition. Small quarto (24.5cm.); original brown printed staplebound card wrappers; [4],27pp. Fine. More
Capetown: Nasionale Pers, 1930. First Edition. Small quarto (24.5cm.); original brown printed staplebound card wrappers; [2],21pp.; text in double columns. Fine. Short collection of tales in Swazi with English translations provided. More
[Cambridge]: Africa Research Group, 1971. Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 12pp. Fine. Reprint series no. 5. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. Second Edition. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth stamped in gilt; black coated endpapers; [xvi],309,[1],32pp; 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear; folding map printed in color, 4 folding plates, frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations, numerous in-text illustrations. Ownership stamp of John A. Cockburn to f.f.e.p. verso. A...... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Three volumes half-bound in later green morocco and marbled paper, top edges gilt; marbled endpapers; I: [xx],428pp; II: [xii],430pp; III: [xii],436pp; 2 color lithographic frontispieces and dedication leaf, one tinted lithographic frontispiece, large folding map, and wood-engraved..... More
London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (32cm). Rebound in modern half marbled calf and marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on red leather spine label; modern brown endpapers; [iii]-[xvi],506,lxxv,[1]pp; 7 maps (5 folding, one also hand-colored)..... More
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in tan dust jacket; xv,[1],216pp. Jacket panels a touch rubbed, else About Fine. "An Exposition-University Book." Review copy with two pieces of promotional ephemera laid in (press release edges a bit worn). Study of labor relations in post-colonial Nigeria..... More
Paris: Présence Africaine, 1966. First Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 111pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. Text entirely in French. A novel of modern Africa by the francophone Camerounian author. More
[Braamfontein, South Africa]: Ravan Press, [1992]. Second Printing. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's teal photo-illustrated card wrappers; [14],89pp. Minor shelf wear, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. Study of late-Apartheid black youth conducted for CASE (Community Agency for Social Enquiry). More
London: John Murray, [1877]. Reprint. Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; brown endpapers; [xvi],608,20pp; 20-page publisher's catalogue at rear; folding frontispiece, folding map at rear with routes traced in red, black and white illustrations. Rubbed, lightly sunned at spine, front hinge cracked through: Good only. An account..... More
Benin City (Nigeria): Ethiope Publishing Corporation, 1973. First Edition. Revolutionary play based on the Aba riot of 1929, dealing with "a women's revolt in the mythical city of Nagase in which a colonial power is overthrown [...] the author's progressive intention is weakened by [his] essentially romantic conception of leadership..... More
London: Africa Bureau, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; 26pp. Fine. More
Stellenbosch: Universiteits-Uitgewers en -Boekhandelaars, 1960. Second Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 96pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, some dust-soil to rear panel, else Very Good and sound. Anti-apartheid piece by the former Chief Justice of South Africa and the author of the Fagan Commission which..... More
Stellenbosch: Universiteits-Uitgewers en -Boekhandelaars, 1960. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 96pp. Jacket extremities rubbed especially at spine crown, some dust-soil to rear panel, else Near Very Good and sound. Anti-apartheid piece by the former Chief Justice of South Africa and the author..... More
Ibadan: Sketch Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Supplement to the Nigerian Daily Sketch, outlining the career of Ukpabi Asika, appointed administrator of East Central State (formerly Biafra) following the Nigerian-Biafran War of 1967-1970. Photographic illustrations (halftones), including many documenting the "heroic" federal troops in action during the war. Asika was..... More
London: Edward Arnold Publishers, (1958). First Edition. First impression. Quarto; red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 64pp; illus. Mild external wear, internally clean, tight and unmarked. In slightly edgeworn and spine-sunned dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 30s. net at base of front flap); Very Good. More
Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, [1968]. First Edition. Square quarto (23.5cm.); original white wrappers in brown photo-illustrated dust jacket; xix & unpaged photographic plates. 3-inch closed tear to bottom edge of upper jacket panel, some uneven toning, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. More
Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm). Printed glossy card wrappers; 252pp; text is in French. Bit of minor spotting to wrapper edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy, retaining the original publisher's advertising band. The Senegalese author's highly-regarded first novel, now considered a high-spot of African postcolonial..... More
Paris: Presence Africaine, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 252pp; text is in French. Hint of rubbing and soil to covers; text very slightly tanned; still a tight, Near Fine copy, unworn and apparently unread. Excellent copy of the Ghanaian novelist's most widely-read work, winner of the Grand Prix..... More
Cambridge: Africa Research Group, [1964]. Reprint. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 22pp. Brief ink notation to cover, tiny chip at spine crown, else Very Good or better. First published by the New England Free Press; this is the ARG reprint of a year later. More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Oblong quarto (19cm x 26cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; xii, 91pp; illus. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else Near Fine in bright dustwrapper with a few small closed nicks to extremities, Very Good to Near Fine. Facing English and Kiswahili text, with tipped in..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1901. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in four colors, top edge gilt; vi,[2],420pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. Boards a bit rubbed with brief exposure at corners, spine gilt a bit dulled with brief flaking of brown portion, contemporary..... More
London: Labour Research Department, 1920. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm.) Staple bound pamphlet; pale blue-grey stiff paper-wrappers; white paper label on upper cover; 12pp. Mild age-toning to wrappers; staples oxidized; still a fresh, complete example, Very Good plus and far better than usually seen. A Forster rarity, published shortly..... More