Search Results: History of Africa from Elk Creek Heritage Books

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Univ of California Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Photographs by Paul Weinberg. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line. Hard cover in very good condition. Dark yellow boards with black spine cloth containing silver lettering. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Dark green end papers. Dust jacket in very good condition. Concludes with extensive notes to the chapters, bibliographical references, and a comprehensive Index. 400 pages. * From the book jacket, ""...chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy. This compelling story is told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. Taken together, the profiles provide the most intimate look yet at the social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa.""

New York: Viking Press, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4th Printing Stated: Fourth Printing April 1937. Hard cover in very good condition with tan linen-like boards, moss green spine lettering, and title & suthor blind stamped on front board. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Age toning to the papers. Contains sections of black & white photographs & illustrations. A hefty 619 numbered pages. After the last page is bound in a map, which when unfolded, measures approximately 10 7/8"" x 19 1/4""; white background, black printing, blue, yellow & green colors. Dust jacket very good with shelf & edge wear; age toning to the white of back jacket & flaps; smudges, rubbing at corners and head & hell of spine, creases at bottom front corner. There is also what appears to be part of an old postage stamp (?) on front bottom corner - see photo. Not price clipped; original price $5.00. * From the forward,… Read More

Random House, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good Reading Copy / Book Club Edition. Copyright 1960; First published in the United States, 1961. Hard cover in good condition with brown boards, teal spine cloth, gold spine lettering with a blue panel with green horizontal lines representing grass. Former owner's name at top right corner of front free endpaper. Papers are age toned; light foxing throughout, especially on the plates: four glossy Black & white photographs. Frontispiece is one of these and is of Isak Dinesen in New York in 1959. This portrait, and another included, were painted by Isak Dinesen herself. Dust jacket is good condition with a 1 1/2"" rectangle missing from the heel of spine; age toning to papers, shelf & edge wear. Also included is a ""Bookmark"" reprinted from Book-of-the-Month Club News"" which opens and contains a report by Basil Davenport about the life of Isak Dinesen."" * From the jacket… Read More