Race and Class
London: Bookmarks, [1993]. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers; 86pp. Some surface scratches to wrappers, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
London: Bookmarks, [1993]. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers; 86pp. Some surface scratches to wrappers, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
[London]: Africa Bureau, [1962]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original pale green staplebound card wrappers; 19pp. Price cancel to upper cover, else Fine. More
London: Gollancz, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm.); black boards embossed in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp.; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; spine ends gently pushed; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with faint soil to front panel and light toning to the jacket spine; Near Fine. Author's..... More
London: Gollancz, 1936. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (20cm). Black cloth, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp. Faint foxing to text block edges, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, priced 8/6 net on spine panel; slightly dusty and toned, with a ca. 1/2" closed tear on rear panel..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. First American Edition. Octavo (21 cm); one quarter light green cloth, with darker green coated cloth sides, in green pictorial dustwrapper; 9-285pp. Dustwrapper spine tanned, heel and crown chipped; mild handling wear, soiling and toning, rubbing to extremities; inner flap price-clipped. Textblock slightly yellowing..... More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue and white printed card wrappers; [8],140pp. A hint of soil to wrappers and title page, else Very Good or better. More
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1880. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (21cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; dark teal endpapers; [x],277,[3]pp; 12 black and white plates (4 folding). A handsome copy, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, with a few spots of foxing but generally clean: about Near..... More
London: Royal Geographic Society/John Murray, 1873. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; light brown coated endpapers; [viii], 271,[1]pp; large folding map at front. Lightly rubbed, spine darkened, short (2-inch) split to rear inner hinge, short tear at gutter of map, else clean and..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm). Two volumes in brick red cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; chocolate brown coated endpapers; xvi,559,[1]pp; x,521,[1],6pp; 6pp publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. II; 2 lithographic maps with routes traced in color (one folding), 26 full-page..... More
Paris: Bloud & Gray, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Decorated thick paper wrappers; 30pp. Faint damp-mark at base of wrappers and along bound edge, else Very Good. Publication of the "Comite 'L'Effort de la France et de ses Alliés," intended to give tribute to the efforts various Allies in..... More
London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Tan cloth, stamped in blue, red, and cream; [vi],153,[1]pp; with small bifolium of publisher's advertisements laid in. Bookseller's ticket of Brentano's, New York, at rear pastedown. Bookplate of Edward M. Chamberlin to front pastedown. A sound, bright..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1964]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 310pp. Imprint on title page verso redacted, else Fine. Oral narrative by Moroccan storyteller Charhadi, pseudonym of Larbi Layachi. More
[Seattle: Liberation Support Movement, ca. 1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [2],22pp.; map illus. Fine. Interview of a leader of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Daniel Chipenda, conducted by LSM Liaison Secretary Don Barnett in Zambia, 1969. More
[Richmond, B.C. Liberation Support Movement Information Center, 1972]. Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original orange pictorial staplebound wrappers; [2],21pp.; illus., text printed from typescript. About Fine. Interview of a leader of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Daniel Chipenda, conducted by LSM Liaison Secretary Don Barnett in Zambia, 1969. First..... More
[Lagos]: Christian Council of Nigeria, n.d. [ca. 1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original pink and black decorative staplebound wrappers; 31pp.; illus. A touch dust-soiled, minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Plea for funds during the postcolonial Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) during which 2 million civilians died of..... More
Nashville: Convention Press, [1971]. First Edition. 12mo (20cm.); original white and orange photographically illustrated staplebound wrappers; 96pp.; illus. About Fine. Publication of the Foreign Mission Board. More
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First Edition. Small octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 113pp. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper, Near-new. Essays on Shakespeare and the modern African drama by the noted Nigerian poet, playwright, and critic. More
N.p. Gallimard, [2001]. First Edition. Oblong folio (25.5x36cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 182,[18]pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout, including some folding. Just a hint of wear to jacket extremities else Fine. Watercolors of Africa and its wildlife by the French illustrator. More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1894. First Edition. Merle Johnson bibliography: "This was an attempt to carry on the Tom and Huck saga, and in so doing they were carried up "in the air" aboard a then problematical airship, crossing the United States and The Atlantic to Africa with Jim..... More
Cape Town: by the Author, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 31pp; errata sheet tipped in at title page. Critique of republicanist proposals in South African government. More
London: Secker & Warburg, [1977]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's boards in black decorative dust jacket; [4],138pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few brief scratches to upper panel, spine ends bumped, else a Very Good copy, nicer than usually seen. The South African Nobel laureate's second..... More
London: Secker and Warburg, 1983. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23cm); black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Tiny stain on pp.211-212, lower corners gently bumped, else clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £7.95), and some trivial shelfwear; Very Good+ or better. Nobel..... More
Pietermaritzburg: The Natal Carbineers Trust, 2000. Quarto. Pictorial paper-covered boards; 242pp. Signed and dated in February 2005. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock, showing mild toning to margins. Near Fine. More
Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (29cm x 22.5cm). Pictorial cloth boards (hardcover); 232pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Catalogue explolring the art of Ghana published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum of..... More
London: Defence and Aid Fund, [1966]. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 19pp. Slight external dusting, else Near Fine. Important early anti-apartheid statement by the founder of the Canon Collins Trust for Southern Africa. More