New York, NY; Boston, MA: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce; Little, Brown, and Co., 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 334 + illustrations, with map. Spine is lightly sunned; light wear to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Davis' account of his expeditions to Africa including tales of..... Item #311
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xi, 230 pp, with 32 plates. Publishers beige cloth with black lettering, red and black vignette of men rowing a boat. Spine toned, corners rubbed through, some fraying. Bookplate on front pastedown, else unmarked and sound. No dust jacket. Davis..... Item #13070
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. 307 pp, illustrated. Corners lightly bumped, else minimal wear; clean and tightly bound. No dust jacket. "Liberia was the first neutral state in Africa to be occupied by American fighting forces in the present global war. This was serveral months before the..... Item #189
London: Frank Cass, 1968. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 152 pp. Reprint of the Oxford edition of 1950. As new. Dust jacket has some uneven sunning and a few short tears. Describes the administration of the French West African colonies from the point of view of a...... Item #13680
London: John Murray, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Two volumes in one. lxvii, 335; 269 pp, complete with 38 engraved plates (1 colored) and maps (1 folding), 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Rebound in red buckram with leather spine label, date..... Item #13060
New York: Payson and Clark Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 338 pp, with pictorial endpapers and drawings by Binder. Spine very slightly sunned, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is lightly dust soiled and edgeworn and has some internal reinforcement with tape..... Item #13242
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. viii, 322 pp, including a chronology of du Chaillu's life. Original decorative cloth with gold paper label on spine. Decorative endpapers, color frontispiece. Bump to one corner, mild spine slant. No dust jacket. French anthropologist Paul du Chaillu was..... Item #13047
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 246 pp + 8 (color illustrations) + publisher's catalogue, with frontispiece. Mild spine slant, light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. The author was a naturalist and wilflife photographer. He describes these chapters as "accounts..... Item #2183
Port Harcourt, Nigeria: C.M.S. Niger Press, 1949. Softcover. Very good. Third edition. ix, 11-120 pp, with frontis photo of the author, in original wrappers.Light soiling to wraps, previous owner's signature inside front cover; otherwise unmarked, binding tight. Jacob U. Egharevba (1893–1981) was a Bini historian and traditional chief who published..... Item #19614
Benin: Kopin-Dogba Press, 1962. Softcover. Very good. 24 pp, with frontis photo of the author, in original wrappers Small notation in ink on front wrap, else fine.. Jacob U. Egharevba (1893–1981) was a Bini historian and traditional chief who published numerous short works on this history and culture of Benin..... Item #19615
New York and London: George H. Doran and William Heinemann, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. xiv, 500 pp, indexed, with color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, and a large folding map of the Oban District, Southern Nigeria. Original green cloth with gilt lettering, mounted illustration. Corners lightly bumped, cloth torn at head of..... Item #13124
London: Frank Cass and Company, Ltd., 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of second edition (1802). vii, 9-287 pp. Red cloth boards are slightly faded and dust soiled; top edge also dust soiled. Binding tight and square, contents clean. Item #13235
London: Archibald Constable, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. xvi, 403 pp, with color frontispiece, many illustrations from photographs (some folding), five folding maps, appendices, index. Original red cloth boards, rubbed at the edges and corners, minor damage to cloth at upper spine. Mild spine slant, but binding sound, text..... Item #20467
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Department of Technical Co-Operation, Overseas Research Publication No. 8. Ownership stamp on front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn. Describes the background, history, political and social..... Item #13207
London: Marshall Brothers. Hardcover. Good. ND, c. 1911. ix, 198 pp, copiously illustrated with b/w plates. Green cloth boards have moderate wear; front board has a black ink spot. Gift inscription on front endpaper. The Church Missionary Society sent the author to Uganda in 1900, when she was 24, and..... Item #13170
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223 pp, illustrated with line drawings by Oliver Whitwell Wilson. Brown pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Private library stamp on title page and bookplate on front pastedown, brief gift inscription on front flyleaf; otherwise a lovely copy with minimal..... Item #13078
London: Hollis and Carter, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Second impression. 343 pp, indexed, with illustrations, map endpapers. One corner bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has a subtle stain and one short tear. Charles de Foucauld was a French monk who established a...... Item #13112
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine. xxvii, 215 pp, with map, bibliography, index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. "In this detailed study, Ellen G. Friedman examines this undeclared state of siege that would continue for two hundred years and perpetuate the..... Item #1811
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp. xvii, 315, in attracticve original cloth decorated with map of Africa on front board, trees on spine. Illustrated with plates from photographs and a double-page map. Spine lightly sunned, else minimal wear. Item #13232
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Capetown: Grand Lodge of Western South Africa, 1890. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4" sewn printed peach-colored wraps, pp. 38 plus an errata slip tipped in, the recto of the rear wrap with the membership form filled out in ink (see below). Covers moderately worn, with chips out at the sewing..... Item #20303
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 277 pp. Clean, sound, and tightly bound. Dust jacket is lightly toned at the edges and has some small chips and tears. Emily Hahn's firsthand account of Africa, based on from numerous..... Item #53
New York: Random House, 1973. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Second edition. xii, 434 pp + b/w illustrations from photographs, with illustrations, index, map endpapers. Fine copy, signed on the front free endpaper "Pour Franciose Hilton avec mes meilleurs souhaits & OSANI! Jean-Pierre Hallet, New Year 1977."..... Item #1937
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Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, c. 1843. From the tenth London edition, revised and corrected. xii, 392 pp + [10] pp publisher's ads. Text printed in double columns. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Leather scuffed, rubbed through at corners. Owner's signature dated 1850 on front free endpaper..... Item #13125
Creative Age Press, Inc. Creative Age Press, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. x, 279 pp, with frontispiece, map illustrations on endpapers. Book has minimal wear. Dust jacket is edgeworn, with 2" tear to bottom of spine with large chip missing; price clipped. Lighting Up Liberia..... Item #140
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp, with 40 illustrations and a map of the Aures. Original green cloth, bumped at the corners; binding tight and square, contents clean. No dust jacket. Account of three winters the author and his wife spent in..... Item #13256
