Zaria: Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 109pp. Includes bibliography. Corners bumped, with consequent creasing to wrapper edges; text clean, tight and unmarked. Good. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in blue pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 236pp. Dustwrapper spine toned, a few short chips and tears to extremities, else about Very Good. The South African author's sixth novel, set in modern South African. More

Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-92,[4]pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. Collection of early poetry by the celebrated Nigerian author, comprised of the 23 poems..... More

Ibadan: Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original blue and black staplebound wrappers lettered in yellow and white; 49pp. Fine. Imprint on upper cover: Ilesanmi Press Ltd., Ilesa. 5-act play set in a polygamous home in Nigeria. Unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015. More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Red cloth titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],286,[2]pp; color frontispiece, 4 color plates, 10 black and white plates, folding map. Sound but rubbed, spine-sunned, and lightly cocked: Very Good. Dr. John Kirk was the botanist and medical officer on Livingstone's..... More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1890. First Edition. Signed limited Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe. #230 of 250 copies printed. Quarto (30cm). Two volumes half-bound in black morocco and vellum, stamped in gilt on front and spines. top edges gilt; plain endpapers; I: [ii],[xvi],529,[1]pp; II: [ii],[xvi],472pp; 2 photogravure..... More

London: Church Missionary House, 1878. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). Tan paper wrappers printed in red and green; 15,[1]pp; one page of publisher's ads at rear; 19 color lithographic plates on 10 leaves, relief map, one additional in-text wood engraving. Presentation inscription to front: "Presented to Brodie of Brodie..... More

[Cambridge, MA: Africa Research Group, 1970]. Reprint. Octavo (21cm.); original yellow decorative staplebound wrappers; [2],12-20,[1],11-30pp. Minor insect damage to bottom edge of upper wrapper, small chip to rear wrapper, else About Very Good. "Reprint" series no. 7. Reproduces two articles originally published in the Monthly Review, Giovanni Arrighi and John..... More

Newton Abbott: David & Charles, [1976]. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 410pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1863 edition. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in lightly soiled, VG dustwrapper. More

Ibadan, Nigeria: New Culture Studios, 1978-1979. First Printing. 11 Issues running from November 1978 to October 1979, with no December 1978 production as issued. Small Quarto. 24.5cm. Publisher's original vibrantly decorated thin card wraps. Approx. 68-80pp. per issue. Clean, bright, and sharp; internally clean, printed on various colors of paper..... More

London: Publicity and Information Bureau, African National Congress, [1969]. First Edition. Quarto (23cm.); original photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Fine. History of the social democratic party of South Africa, formed in 1912, which would become the country's post-apartheid ruling party in 1994. More

Winston-Salem: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (26cm x 29cm). Pictorial wrappers; 163pp; illus. Light wear to wrapper edges; faint creases to corners; Near Fine. Extensively illustrated in color. Catalog for the traveling exhibition originating at SECCA in 1990. More

London: Andrew Dakers Ltd., n.d. [1950]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 221pp. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends, sunning to extremities, strong and tight; internally clean, bookplate to verso of front flyleaf, illustrated throughout; in a clean photographic..... More