South African Women On the Move
London: Zed Books, 1985. First Edition. Small quarto. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 266pp; illus. Clean, unworn copy, free of markings or soil; Near Fine. More
London: Zed Books, 1985. First Edition. Small quarto. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 266pp; illus. Clean, unworn copy, free of markings or soil; Near Fine. More
Lincoln, Massachusetts: Panmaen Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Signed by the translator on the front free endpaper, dated July 2002. Limited to 2000 copies. Octavo (24cm); green cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 62pp; illustrations by Norman Laliberté; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.50)..... More
Lincoln, Massachusetts: Panmaen Press, 1980. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed by the translator and illustrator. Limited to 100 signed copies, this being #54. Ovtavo (24cm); green cloth backstrip over paper-covered decorated boards, titled in gilt on the spine; 62pp. Sunning to the board edges; tiny tear to the upper..... More
[Salisbury]: National Archives of Rhodesia, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 527pp. Private ownership stamp to endpapers and edge of text-block, else a Fine copy, in slightly soiled dustwrapper. More
London: Bellew Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 173pp. Clean and bright, a near fine copy in dustjacket. Internally clean. An academically respected analysis of the ill-fated European attempts to hold any useful ground in Somaliland, and the tireless efforts of..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. First American Edition. Quarto (35.5cm x 27cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf..... More
Accra: Anowuo Educational Publications, [1966]. Second Printing. 12mo (17.5cm.); original white and red wrappers; 118,[2]pp. About Fine. Bediako's early novella, describing contemporary Ghanaian marriage. "Richly entertaining and educative" (upper cover). More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 206pp. Fine, in lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket. Analysis of the role of religion in the newly de-colonized African countries. By a long-serving Methodist Missionary. More
New York: Friendship Press, [1936]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown; viii,168pp. Light wear to extremities, occasional unobtrusive red pencil underlining throughout, else Very Good or better. Collection of folk tales and stories by missionaries in Africa. More
New York: New American Library, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo. Purple & lavender cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 209pp. Near fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dustwrapper. A satire on "racial extremism." Preceded by a London edition the same year. More
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1965]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white decorative card wrappers printed in red and black; 152,[2]pp.; music on p. [153]. Very minor foxing to a few extremities, else Fine. Novel by the Beninese author and journalist for which he was awarded the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire..... More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original white wrappers printed in red and black; 254pp. Light foxing to spine, else a Near Fine, unopened copy. Beninese author's first novel, which does not express popular anticolonialist tropes in order to "demonstrate that it was possible for an..... More
London: Africa Bureau, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 14pp. Fine. Address delivered to the annual general meeting of the Africa Bureau, 11 November 1968. More
Elgin, IL: Elgin Press, 1938. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Very Sincerely / Desmond Bittinger / Africa." Octavo. Yellow cloth hardcover; 254pp; frontispiece map; 8 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Bright copy with just a touch of soil to board edges; spine cloth a shade sunned, Very Good..... More
Aboso, Ghana: Benibengor Book Agency, 1972. Third Edition. Brief parable detailing the anguish that can be experienced by parted lovers. Blay (b. 1911) is regarded as a pioneer of popular writing in Ghana, his dozens of self-published works spanning the colonial and post-colonial periods. Octavo (20cm); thick pink printed wrappers..... More
Aboso, Ghana: Benibengor Book Agency, 1968. Second Edition. Short-story collection, first published in 1958. Collects "Stubborn Girl," "Mark of Providence," "Wasted Labour," and "No Smooth Course." Blay (b. 1911) is regarded as a pioneer of popular writing in Ghana, his dozens of self-published works spanning the colonial and post-colonial periods..... More
Accra: Waterville Publishing House, [1965]. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); original green staplebound pictorial wrappers; 78pp. Spine foot bumped, else Near Fine. Folk poetry and songs, described as "Victorian pieties" (Albert S. Gérard, ed. European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, p. 112). More
Paris: Editions E.P., 2003. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial laminated boards (as issued); 70pp. Bit of external rubbing to boards, else Fine. Beautifully-drawn graphic novel from the creative team of Bocquet - Gefe, portraying the adventures of a pair of French rural youth – one of African descent, one white..... More
Amsterdam: Algemeen Handelsblad, [1899]. Offprint. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers; 40pp. Slight aging to text, else Near Fine; but possibly lacking cover wraps. Attacks British policy in South Africa shortly after the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Conflict. The author was publisher and editor of the Amsterdam political newspaper "Algemeen Handelsblad," where this..... More
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1971]. 12mo (17.25cm.); original yellow and red pictorial card wrappers; 223pp. Fine. Cameroonian author's first novel, originally published pseudonymously in 1954. Bildungsroman set in pre-independent Cameroon, originally published as a means of communicating the author's ideas regarding the colonial presence in Africa with minimal consideration to style..... More
Munich: Prestel, [1994]. First English Language Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; 167pp.; color illus. throughout. Some minor wear along top jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Translated from the original French. More
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1953. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine; dustjacket; 318pp. Fading to board edges, with some very subtle offset from jacket illustration onto spine cloth; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly sunned at spine, with some minor edgewear..... More
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1950. First Edition. First Impression, one of 3,500 copies. Octavo (20cm); sage green cloth, blocked and titled in dark green and gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-222,[2]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 9s.6d. net), with some trivial wear to extremities and a few..... More
London: Peter Owen, [1990]. First U.K. Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 30 of 75 signed copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 80pp.; illus. Very light rubbing to jacket extremities, else Fine. More
Zaria: Printed by Gaskiya Corporation and Published by the Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, [n.d. but 1967]. First Edition. Brief account, written for juvenile audiences, of a small part of the Fulani Campaign (1804-1808), which took place in modern-day Nigeria and Cameroon. OCLC finds 9 locations in US institutions. Slim octavo..... More