Britain and Suez: the lion's last roar
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 135pp. A fine, unmarked, apparently unread copy. More
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 135pp. A fine, unmarked, apparently unread copy. More
Geneva: Programme to Combat Racism / World Council of Churches, [1981]. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; xiv,118pp.; photographic illus. throughout, text in double column. Some wear from handling, chiefly minor curling at corners, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Yaoundé: Editions Cle, 1970. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 155pp.; six leaves of color illus. printed on rectos and versos, map in text. A hint of wear, else Fine. Cameroonian folklore chosen and illustrated by students of the Garoua high school. More
Paris: Pierre Jean Oswald, 1973. First French Edition. The Cameroonian author and dramatist's first published book, a collection of poems. OCLC locates a single institutional holding in Germany. First Impression. Octavo (18cm); yellow wrappers printed in black; 79, [1]pp. Fine, unread copy. More
Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Printed pale green card wrappers; 29pp. Fine, with U.S. price (70¢) stamped at base of front cover. An well-annotated bibliography, containing 164 items, an appendix of relevant periodicals, and index. More
Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1981. Reprint. First Reprint Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); yellow cloth covered boards, titled in black on the spine; 246pp.; mild finger soil to boards; Near Fine, lacking the dustjacket. The Egyptian Nobel laureate's eighth novel. "Midaq Alley is the English Translation of 'Zuqaq El Midaq', released..... More
Basutoland: Catholic Centre, n.d., ca. 1970s. First Edition. Quarto (24.75cm.); original tape-backed pictorial card wrappers; [2],39 mimeographed leaves. Fine. Sotho-language work presumably about the Lesotho-based mission of Tsoana-Makhulo. OCLC locates 2 copies as of December, 2015, neither outside of South Africa. More
Basutoland, Lesotho: Catholic Centre, n.d., ca. 1970s. First Edition. Quarto (24.5cm.); original tape-backed photo-illustrated card wrappers; [2],108 mimeographed leaves. Fine. 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..... More
Basutoland: Catholic Centre, n.d., ca. 1970s. First Edition. Quarto (25cm.); original tape-backed photo-illustrated card wrappers; [4],185,[1],2pp.; text printed from typescript in blue ink. Fine. 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..... More
Johannesburg: S.A. Institute of Race Relations, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's grey printed staplebound card wrappers, French flaps; [2],29pp. Minor toning to wrapper extremities, else Fine. At head of title: Hoernlé Memorial Lecture 1946. Address delivered by the South African educator shortly after the end of World War II..... More
[London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd., n.d., ca. 1970]. Third Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 24pp. Fine. Oft-reprinted text of Mandela's speech delivered during his defence at the Rivonia Trial, June, 1964. More
New York: Pantheon Books, [1979]. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); purple paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],167,[3]pp. Crown gently nudged, hint of foxing to text edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), with light..... More
Finland: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1998. First American Edition. Octavo (24.5 cm.); clean white wrappers with pictorial cover; 305pp.; light rubbing only; Fine with sharp corners. "This book offers a perspective to the evolution of warfare during the 19th century by analysing a single war. In 1897-1903 the British Empire conquered..... More
Leipzig: Karl-Marx-Universität, 1967. First Edition. Large octavo (24.25cm.); original wrappers in yellow and lime-green decorative dust jacket; [10],237pp. Some edge wear, else Very Good. Collection of papers in German, English, and French. More
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1948. Second Edition Revised. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in black; viii,105pp. Corners rather bumped, else Very Good and sound. Leopold Marquard would serve as president of the liberal South African Institute of Race Relations from 1957-8 and 1968. A study first..... More
London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in brown price-clipped dust jacket lettered in grey and green; [10],250pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities and flap folds, tiny closed tear at top edge of upper panel, two lines on upper jacket flap neatly..... More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1958. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 23pp. Clean and tight; VG or better. Presidential address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Council of the South African Institute of Race Relations, 13 January 1958. More
London: Soviet Booklet, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original blue staplebound wrappers printed in bright blue; 16,[4]pp. Fine. Soviet Bookplate no. 115. Includes the argument that Africa and Asia could, with the aid of disarmament, "within the lifetime of one generation, catch up with the highly developed countries of the..... More
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1962]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original green pictorial wrappers, yapp edges; 91,[2]pp. A Fine, unopened copy. Traditional African folktales adapted into the French language by Cameroonian author, though many have been changed in order to "illustrate...political ideas borrowed from the West" (Albert S. Gérard, European-Language Writing in..... More
Mazenod, Basutoland: Catholic Centre, [1966]. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound card wrapeprs; 116pp. A hint of shelf wear and dust-soil, else Fine. Sesotho-language play first published in 1950, though the author is best known for his novel "Mopheme," addressing problems that arise from polygamy while based on the story of..... More
London: George Routledge & Co., 1850. First U.K. Edition. Oft-reprinted novel combining adventure and whaling story with zoological descriptions and a "phantasmagorical view of life in Northern Africa" (Harold Bloom, "Herman Melville" (2009), p. 89), considered by some academics as a sourcebook for Herman Melville's "Pierre." See Wright I 1852-5..... More
Nampula, Mozambique: Livraria Domus, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 21cm.); publisher's cream staplebound printed card wrappers; 17pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled, textblock toned and a few leaves dog-eared; Very Good overall. Essay on patriotism by a young Portuguese Mozambican, text entirely in Portuguese. U. Florida only in OCLC as..... More
Paris: Hatier, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's orange pictorial boards; 128pp; illus. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Primary-school French reader for colonial subjects. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings keyed to the text, all illustrating the daily life of Camerounian natives. More
[Enugu, Nigeria]: Spiritan Publications, [1988]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (18cm.); original yellow pictorial card wrappers; 112pp. Wrappers a hint sunned along extremities, minor wear from handling, else Very Good or better. More