New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dustjacket; viii, 524pp. Minor foxing to top edge of text block, boards, and dust jacket, interior unaffected. Mild shelf wear and soiling to jacket, else a tight, unmarked, clean copy. Near Fine. 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

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,334,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to J. Wayne Fredericks, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961-67): "To Wayne and Anne..... More

Peking: New World Press, [1955]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original linen-backed photo-illustrated boards, spine lettered in bright blue; 109pp.; 15 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor edge wear, else Very Good. Photographic account of the 1954 floods, which killed approximately 33,000. More

Washington DC: American Council on Education, [1933]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Light toning to extremities, a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good or better. At head of title: "Achievements of Civilization No. 4." More

Paris: Amicale des Déportés et Familles de Mauthausen, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (31.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 11pp.; photographic illus., text printed in triple column. Previous horizontal mail fold, extremities (mostly fore-edge) rather worn from handling. Very Good. Newsletter published for survivors and family members of inmates of the Nazi concentration camp..... More

Baltimore: Privately Published, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Printed buff wrappers; 119pp; portraits. Generally clean, but with a faint diagonal crease to lower 1/3 of text block throughout; mild external soil and small paper losses at spine ends, still about Very Good. Anti-British propaganda issued on behalf of the Orange Free..... More

[Milano]: Edizioni di Comunità, [1968]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's decorative card wrappers; 158pp. Light wear, spine a bit creased, else Very Good or better. Rapporti sulle Scienze Sociali no. 1. Text entirely in Italian. More

Raleigh: Holden & Wilson, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 32pp. Front signature separated but present, some shallow chips and tiny losses along margins, textblock rather foxed; Good only. Admiring account of the life and deeds of Oliver Cromwell by the Bishop of North Carolina. SABIN 2286. More

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxii,[1],2-264,[4]pp; photographic frontispiece with illustrations throughout text. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Slight..... More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1991]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],308pp.; illus. Two tiny closed tears at top edge of rear jacket panel, spine a hint sunned, else Fine. More

Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's brown decorative card wrappers printed in red and black; xiv,269pp. Minor shelf wear to wrapper extremities, chief along top margin of upper cover, else Near Fine. Text entirely in Italian. More

Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; xx, 333pp. Text in Italian. Old bookseller stamp to rear free endpaper. Minor external wear to wrappers, slight split at front wrapper, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Spine mildly sunned. Very Good. More