Nketta mu Bizinga
Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, [1960]. Reprint [1970]. 12mo (18.5cm.); original pink pictorial wrappers; [6],205,[1]pp. About Fine. Ganda-language novel with glossary (pp. 198-205). More
Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, [1960]. Reprint [1970]. 12mo (18.5cm.); original pink pictorial wrappers; [6],205,[1]pp. About Fine. Ganda-language novel with glossary (pp. 198-205). More
[Paris]: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1972]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original blue printed wrappers; 37,[2]pp. Fine. Poetry collection by Kayo, chairman of the National Association of Poets and Writers of Cameroon, a post he held from 1969 to 1981. More
Cape Town: Kwela Books / Snailpress, 2007. Second Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.25cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-63,[1]pp. Light wear to spine ends, tiny crease to lower rear corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. Reissue of the South African poet laureate's 2004 collection, gathering work written over 40 years. Kgositsile (1938-2018)..... More
[Basutoland: Catholic Centre, n.d., ca. 1960s]. First Edition. Novel written in the Sotho (also called Sesotho) language, one of the 11 official languages of present-day South Africa and the official language of Lesotho, formerly known as Basutoland until its independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. OCLC locates 2 copies..... More
[London? Africa Bureau, 1956]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original blue staplebound card wrappers lettered in white; 16pp. Minimal wear, price cancel to upper cover (as usual), else Very Good or better. Address delivered by the former Regent of the Bamangwato tribe in Botswana. More
[Richmond, Surrey, England: Foreign Affairs Publishing Co. Ltd., 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white glossy photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; [2],23pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light dust-soiling, else Near Fine. More
London: Penguin Education, 1973. First Edition. First impression. No cloth edition was issued. Square octavo (22cm); pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; small splash-stain to first two leaves; Very Good. An exploration, aimed at secondary-school readers, of the effects of colonialism on the African continent. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers printed in yellow and black; 110pp. A hint of toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Collection of connected short stories set in a small village in Buganda. "A Three Crowns Book" (upper cover). More
London: Longman Group UK, 1986. First Edition. First impression. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 208pp; illus. Tight, clean and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, mildly toned at extremities and with a short, closed tear at upper panel; Near Fine. Photo-illustrated survey of historically important mosques, with scholarly background essays..... More
[Zaire?]: Collège de Sciences Économiques et Sociales, 1974. First Edition. Large quarto (29cm.); original cloth tape-backed printed wrappers (minor dust soiling); [1],171,[1] leaves; maps, text printed from typescript. Fine. Thesis on agriculture and the economic development of the Republic of Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo). Text entirely in..... More
[Boston? Allyn and Bacon, 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; [6],106pp.; black and white and color illus., including maps; text in double column. School book on sub-Saharan African cultures. Forms part of the Afro-Asian Regional Studies series. More
Paris: Jean Grassin, 1963. First, Limited Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 60, [4]pp. One of 500 numbered copies on Alfa (the entire edition). Fine copy, free of markings or wear; apparently unread. The Ivorian poet's third book, a memoir of childhood under colonial rule. Notably uncommon in the trade... More
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1970. First Edition. Ivorian novelist's important first book, a trenchant critique of life under African post-colonial rule. The Paris edition was preceded by a small printing from the Presses de l'Université de Montréal (1968; also in French). This, the first French edition, is the basis for..... More
[East Lansing, MI? Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); original orange and black decorative card wrappers; viii leaves & 138pp.; graphs and charts throughout, text in double columns. Light shelf wear, imprint in manuscript on upper cover; spine title additionally in manuscript. About..... More
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in black; xii,160pp.; mounted folding map frontispiece, 32 leaves of photographic plates. Corners bumped, endpapers darkened, else Very Good or better. More
London: Frontline Books, 2013. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xxii,262pp; illus; maps. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy, near-new. More
[London]: Bramley Books, 1997. First Edition Thus. Octavo (25cm); glossy pictorial boards; dustjacket; xxii,170pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £15.99), with light surface wear, and a tiny tear at upper rear panel. "This vivid account explores the war as it appeared to the professional and amateur..... More
New York: United Nations, Unit on Apartheid, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); original grey printed wrappers; [4],127pp.; text printed from typescript. About Fine. More
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. First American Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over black paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in blue and bronze to the spine, a little bumping and edgwear, clean and handsome, in a bright, strong, priceclipped dustjacket with some light marginal wear..... More
Nairobi: The Eagle Press / East African Literature Bureau, 1957. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 20pp. Deep blue wrappers slightly faded at extremities; minor creasing to corners, else Near Fine. A series of radio talks on Ugandan archaeology. More
Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 268pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed; gentle toning to text; Very Good. First edition of a standard text, reissued in revised editions through the 1980s; somewhat uncommon, and a valuable snapshot of the activities of..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1969]. First American edition, second (1970) printing. Octavo (22.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 209pp. Bottom edge of upper jacket panel creased, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Includes essays on the works of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Tutuola..... More
London: Macmillan, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 209pp. Jacket extremities lightly rubbed, else About Fine. Includes essays on the works of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Tutuola. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. Second American printing (lacking the Doran "lozenge" on copyright page, with letter "B" beneath title). Octavo (23.5cm). Pictorial brown cloth over boards; xx,1-336; deep red topstain; fore- and bottom edges uncut; frontispiece and 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones); folding map at..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xxv, 258pp. Trivial foxing to top edge of textblock and interior of jacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor external wear to jacket, showing mild sunning to spine. Very Good. More