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New York Stein and Day [], 1965, First Edition. paperback. This is the hardcover edition; first was a paperback original in U.K. Hardcover. Condition: fine, with fine dust jacket. -- Account of confinement and interrogation under the South African Ninety-Day Detention Law.

Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1972, First Edition. hardcover. First U.S. Edition, First Printing 1972 of this South African novel. -- Translated from Afrikaans by Cassandra Perrey. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good, in very good dust jacket (price-clipped; light edgewear). ISBN 0395136474

Capetown Tafelberg-Uitgewers, 1963, hardcover. Written in English. Hardcover. Condition: very good (blind-stamped special library ownership on title-page) in very good dust jacket (spine color sunned). -- Author born 1913, Prize-winning South African Afrikaans novelist, dramatist, short-story writer.

Atlantic Highlands NJ Humanities Press [], 1983, hardcover. Study of African novels from 1950s, including Ngugi, Soyinka, Achebee, Farah, La Guma, Laye, Oyono as well as Gordimer and van der Post. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, in near fine dust jacket (spine lightly sunned). ISBN 0391029223

London Faber [] , 1985, hardcover. Newly translated with extensive revision of the text itself, by the author (original "embarrassingly deficient" English translation was published 1964). -- Hardcover. Condition: very good (marker letter inside cover) in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0571136893

London Hurst and Blackett, 1907, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Printed on laid paper by The Chapel River Press. -- Illustrated by 160 half-tone reproductions of photographs and a 12x34-inch color map of the route. There is a small map of Lake Tchad as partly surveyed by the author. Landor states of his journey of 8,500 miles over one year, "Pleasure was its sole object." -- Hardcover, 396+511 pages, 7.5x10x4.3 inches, bright spine and cover lettering on navy blue cloth. Condition: very good minus (mild to heavy foxing throughout--the glossy plates are not affected; tips lightly bumped; no jackets). A substantial and attractive copy.

New York St. Martins [] , 1989, hardcover. With woodcut illustrations by Cecil Skotnes. 121 pages. Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (owner name; pages tanned) with very good dust jacket. -- Author (1931-89) South African short-story writer, novelist, dramatist, critic. ISBN 0312036892

London New York Heinemann and Africana paperback. Periodical, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, for 1972 bound together with index, "omnibus edition" edited by Eldred Jones. -- Softcover. Condition: very good (light cover wear).

Westport CT Lawrence Hill, 1974, paperback. Translated from French by Mercer Cook. Selections from two other books. Fifty illustrations. -- Softcover. Condition: very good (spine color change; corner crease rear-cover. ISBN 0882080229

San Francisco Chronicle Books, 2003, hardcover. Includes 570 color photographs of traditional and handcrafted textiles from all of Africa, plus cultural and technical information for each region. -- Hardcover, 10x13 inches. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0811841669

Boston Little Brown, 1960, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.S. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with very good dust jacket (small scuff, tiny hole). -- Author was born 1925, Gambian/Sierra Leonean novelist. This novel follows a native of a remote village in West Africa, educated by missionaries, becoming political leader.

Trenton NJ Africa World Press, 1990, paperback. Third printing 1993. -- SIGNED, to [name] by co-editor and essayist Molefi Asante. -- Includes an essay by Wole Soyinka on ethnocultural debate. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0865431345

London Heinemann, 1971, hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). ISBN 0435184857

Cambridge Cambridge University Press [], 1976, paperback. Softcover. Condition: very good (spine faded). ISBN 0521284031

Garden City NY Doubleday, 1983, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- includes reproduced rock paintings, drawings, photos. -- Hardcover, 138 pages, 11x13 inches. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (1-inch front-flap tear; short tear rear-panel). ISBN 0385189680

Boston St. Paul Editions, 1981, hardcover. African missions since mid-19th century of Edward Barron, Augustine Planque, Daniel Comboni, and others. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good, with very good dust jacket (edge faintly foxed). ISBN 0819807028

New Haven Yale University Press, 1983, paperback. Extracts from British travel accounts and journals of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries concerning the slaves, their manners, and customs in the British West Indies. Includes 19 contemporary illustrations, a sampler of accounts of slaves, and author biograpical notes. -- Softcover, 444 pages. Conditon: very good (bookplate). ISBN 0300030304

Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1994, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. REVIEW COPY. Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 0253348315

New York Harper & Row, 1963, First Edition. hardcover. First U.S. Edition [no publication date given, 1962 or 1963?]. -- Hardcover. Condition: Near fine with near fine dust jacket (bright, wrap-around artwork) .-- (1888-1957) English novelist who served in the Nigerian political service. This is the author's first published novel, 1932, set in Nigeria.

Vlaeberg Fernwood Press, 1998, hardcover. Includes color photographs: domestic ware and sculptural art. Rural potters of the Champagne Valley in KwaZulu-Natal, Africa. 79 pages, 8x11.4 inches. Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. ISBN 1874950393