Africa from JimsOldBooks

Sasolburg, South Africa: Alison Bradshaw, 2014. A print-on-demand copy from Amazon. Very slight bumping to spine ends, otherwisr a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Episodes from the author's parents' time living on the shores of Lake Kariba in (then) north-west Rhodesia between 1968 and 1976. 137pp, colour and b&w drawings throughout..… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1971. A slight crease to spine, minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, a previous owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book, being number 64 in the publisher's "African Writers Series". Contains poems by seven South African poets, namely: Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim), Dennis Brutus, I Choonara, C… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. Slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of traditional folk-tales featuring animals, originally from the Acholi people of northern Uganda but here re-told for children by the author. 124pp, b&w drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1919. Unclipped dustwrapper (original price of 12/- on spine) has creasing and tears to edges, particularly a 2.5 inch tear at bottom right of spine and a smaller one-inch tear to opposite side, also a little bit missing at top end and at bottom right of same. Slight bumping to spine ends of gray boards with… Read more about this item

London: Frontline Books, 2013. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also to inner flaps of same, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the Portuguese in Africa between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries in what became their colonies of Mozambique and Angola, as well as in Morocco, the Congo, Ethiopia and… Read more about this item

Nairobi, Kenya: Ines May Publicity, 1985. Slight scuffing to spine ends and outer corners of cover, previous owner's name on title page, some rusting to staples, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Various ways of wearing the Kanga, a a traditional garment worn by women in East Africa which is a rectangular piece of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1980. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, very slight bumping to spine ends of black boards, a previous owner's address label on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Eleven short stories by the author, all set in Africa. 139pp, b&w drawings at chapter heads and elsewhere in the text.… Read more about this item

Oxford: George Ronald, 1953. Creasing and tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spune ends of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1942, this is a later "Revised Edition" from 1953. The author's account of his time in Africa (Kenya mostly, but also West Africa) where he worked… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. Some creasing and small tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of dark red boards, a previous owners name on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of her time working in South Africa as warden of the Tumelong womens mission at… Read more about this item

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1961. Quite a lot of creasing and tears to unclipped dustwrapper, particularly at spine ends, and with old sellotape at the folds and elsewhere. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards and some shelf-wear to bottom edge of same, a previous owner's name and date (1963) on f/ep, some yellowing to the… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. Unclipped dustwrapper is very badly creased and torn, particularly at the front fold, and with the bottom two inches or so at the spine torn away but still present. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, some corrugation to the b&w plates due to the book havng been damp at some point,… Read more about this item

London: The Reprint Society, 1962. Reprint Society edition. Slight creasing to edges of dustwrapper, minor bumping to ends of dark red spine strip and to corners of yellow boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1961, this is a Reprint Society edition ffrom the next year. The author's account of… Read more about this item

London: History Book Club, 1972. History Book Club edition. Some creasing to edges and fading to spine of dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1971, the book deals with the construction of the Uganda Railway between Mombassa and Lake Victoria in… Read more about this item

London: Companion Book Club, 1962. Companion Book Club edition from 1962. Some creasing and small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A sequel to the author's ''The Lost World of the Kalahari'', dealing with his… Read more about this item

London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. Some fading to dustwrapper spine, also minor creasing to top edge of same, slight wear to top edge of blue boards, and the book does smell a bit of being kept in a shed or similar, though this should fade. But otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing with the Congo… Read more about this item

London: The Paternoster Press, 1953. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Number five in the author's "Jungle Doctor" series of stories for children about the adventures of a medical missionary worker in (then) Tanganyika… Read more about this item

Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. A small scuff to the lower corner of front cover, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. This is the first edition, part of the publisher's Africasouth Paperbacks series. The story, set in Cape Town in 1980, involves… Read more about this item

Cape Town: David Philip, 1982. Very slight scuff-marks to top end of spine and to bottom corners of cover, some yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Originally published in the UK in 1956 as "Episode" and later in the US as "Episode in the Transvaal",… Read more about this item

Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Some yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Originally published in 1965, this is a later, paperback edition, part of the publisher's Africasouth series. A play set in a South African reformatory and based on three stories from Paton's collection "Debbie… Read more about this item

Cape Town: David Philip, 1982. Paperback edition. Minor scuffing to spine ends and a crease to the spine, some yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good tight copy of this soft-cover book. Contains eleven essays by different authors on various aspects of Church-State conflict in Apartheid-era South Africa. 197pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read more about this item