Search Results: Africa from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

London: Methuen, 1961 9th ed. 511pp. maps. green cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj [some mottling of cover cloth near upper extremities; ink name; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A useful standard geography for the study of colonial era Africa.

London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970. 96pp. paperback: Good [ink name; else G] Twelve scholarly monographs on the subject of African history.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1984 reprint. 336pp. illus. paperback: Good [text is age browned; top edge is foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A well written history covering the range of historical characters from Bruce to Stanley.

Chicago: Rand McNally. 1956 1st ed. 255pp. illus. hardback 8vo: about Good in a worn but not tattered dj [top & fore edges are foxed; some bottom edge stain specks; text is untroubled; else a complete & tight copy] The account of a New Yorker’s 18,000 plus-mile drive through 12 African countries in a "specially-built car" long before the air conditioned SUV. An entertaining view of an Africa that is no more.

New York: Random House, 1979 1st ed. 239pp. hardback sm 4to: Good in a near Very Good dj [some age browning and foxing; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The essayist author Hoagland’s (b. 1932) entertaining account of visits to the Sudan in the late 1970s, a rare period of grace sandwiched between decades of civil war.

Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House, 1972 1st ed. 56pp. staple-bound paperback 8vo: near Very Good [some scuffing of red cover paper; ink name; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy] Historical Association of Kenya Paper No. 1.

London: Edward Arnold. 1963 amended ed. 64pp. red cloth 4to: Fine in a generally Good dj that is price-clipped & torn @ corners & spine head; light colored paper is smudged] African history covered in maps from Roman times to the early independence era.

Nairobi: Westlands Sundries. 1985 1st ed. 128pp. illus. paperback in French flaps: Very Good [top & fore edges are lightly age foxed; else VG] 88 species of birds in Kenya are illustrated in color photographs.

University of Chicago Press, 1961 1st ed. 290pp. illus. russet cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some age foxing of edges; some age browning of endpp; owner's signature ffep; else a nice clean, complete and tight copy] The fascinating story of some 50 Union and Confederate officers who found themselves in the Sudan after the Civil War in the mercenary employ of the khedive of Egypt. Hesseltine (1902-63) was an influential American historian and public intellectual.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 1st Am. ed. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 278pp. illus. red cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = small closed tear @ top edge of front cover; else nrF] A journalist’s popular history of the European scramble for Africa in the late 19th century.

Hove, UK: Wayland Publishers, 1976 1st ed. 96pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [small stain spot top edge near spine head; else VG; dj = short tear @ top edge of front cover panel; else nrF] A short, particularly well-illustrated biography of the wealthy English/South African imperialist and benefactor of the Rhodes Scholarships, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902).

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987 1st ed. thus. 370pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [age browning of text and edges; fore edge foxing; else a tight, uncreased copy]

New York: Knopf. 1983 1st Am. ed. 335pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Very Good+ dj [a light bottom corner bump; some foxing of deckle fore edge; blue spine cloth is faded; else VG; dj = nicked @ top front corner; else VG+] A very nice copy of France’s imperial adventure in North Africa that lasted from 1903-14.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969 1st ed. 276pp. black cloth 8vo: near Very Good in an about good dj in Brodart poly cover [bookplate on pastedown; fore edge is foxed; some other age browning of edges; else a nice complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; torn @ extremities] A history that encompasses the entire span of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's existence.

Boston: Faber & Faber, 1985 1st Am. ed. 207pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [text is age browned owing to the low quality of the publisher's paper; else a nice clean copy] Golding (1911-93) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and shortly thereafter made this trip to Egypt.

INSCRIBED by author on title p. and signed "Deborah." 389pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some faint edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Random House. 1965. 225pp. illus. green cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [brief ink note on dedication p; else nrF; dj = p-c; else G+] Winston Churchill’s grandson’s account of a 20,000-mile journey by single-engine Piper Comanche across Africa.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970 reissue. 245pp. + frontis. & 48 reproductions of photos by the author. brown cloth 8vo: Very Good/no dj [small fore edge speck; else a nice tight copy] Travel by the British artist and writer Wyndham (1896-1948).

New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1899. 282pp. illus. blue decorated cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [antique ink inscription on pastedown; foxing of endpp. & preliminary pp. through title p; else a nice complete & tight copy] A fascinating eyewitness account of life during the late 1860s in what would become Nigeria by the American Baptist missionary Stone (b. 1837).

Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1892. 343pp. t.e.g. burgundy cloth sm 8vo w/gilt spine titles: Good+/no dj [small ink gift inscription on ffep; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy] A travel classic published as Au Maroc in 1890 by the French naval officer and novelist Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923) who wrote under the pseudonym.