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
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
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
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
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
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
London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. xvi, 520 pp with illustrations, index, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear to bottom edge. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French..... Item #12969
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 488 pp. with four hand-colored plates and two folding maps; lacking free endpapers. Original blue paper-covered front board, spine and rear board skillfully replaced to match, with new paper label on spine. Internals sound and clean..... Item #18860
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 345 pp + numerous b/w illustrations from photographs, index, illustrated endpapers. Original giraffe-patterned cloth boards, sunned at the spine and with moderate shelfwear. Text clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title page "to M.S. Slocum with..... Item #20072
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Toronto: Star Printing and Publishing, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Original blue cloth puckered in spots, rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Binding sound, contents clean. 353 pp, with 51 gravure plates, but lacking the folding map. The author traversed the Marotse..... Item #13102
Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xii, [13]-560 pp, with 66 illustrations (many full page). Publisher's dark red cloth decorated in black and gilt. Corners rubbed, some fraying at foot of spine, small hole in cloth at rear joint. Internals fine. Kingston authored many tales..... Item #13040
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 90 pp text + index, bibliography and 96 b/w plates; several plans in the text. Publisher's brown cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. As new, in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of shelf wear..... Item #16324
London: Frank Cass, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the 1906 edition. 564 pp, indexed, bound in red cloth. Light dust soil to top edge, else fine. Dust jacket has light soiling at the edges and chipping to the corners and head of spine..... Item #13332
New York: Thomas Crowell, 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 313 pp, indexed, with illustrations and maps. Mild dust soiling to page edges, some foxing to endpapers. Binding tight and square, contents unmarked. Dust jacket has minor chipping to corners and spine ends..... Item #12641
