Africa from Rulon-Miller Books

New York: French Bureau of Information, 1925. 4to, 12 numbers complete, pp. 260; original upper wrappers bound in; bound in card backed in yellow library buckram; ex-Seattle Public Library with call number, bookplate, and stamping; the text clean, very good. Each issues is largely comprised of short reports on economics and trade across the French empire.

New York: French Bureau of Information, 1924. 4to, 12 numbers complete, pp. 286, [4] (lacking the final leaf of text on all numbers starting with no.4, likely classifieds and subscription form); original upper wrappers bound in; bound in card backed in yellow library buckram; ex-Seattle Public Library with call number, bookplate, and stamping; the text clean, good. Each issues… Read more about this item

New York, San Diego,London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First edition, small 4to, pp. [8], 373, [1]; map endpapers, color frontispiece, several illustrations throughout the text; fine copy in a fine, unclipped jacket. Errata slip laid in, as issued.

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d., 1853. First edition, 4to, pp. 11, [1], 208; text printed in double column, engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph Abercrombie by W. Finden after Hoppner; 4 double-page Tallis maps hand-colored in outline with vignette illustrations, of Cape Colony; Natal and Kaffraria; western Africa; and the islands of the Atlantic - Bermuda,… Read more about this item

Chicago: Third World Press, 1971. First printing, 8vo, pp. 24; original printed wrappers, light wear at edges, else near fine. Menkiti's first collection of poetry published by Haki R. Madhubuti's Third World Press in 1971 in Chicago.

London: Baptist Missionary Society and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd, 1899. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 499, [1]; lexicon in double column; bookplate of the Baptist Missionary Society, Mission House Library; original blue cloth, spine a bit faded, front hinge starting; good and sound.

Lagos: Church Missionary Society Bookshop, 1913. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 259, [3]; lexicon in double column; original red cloth stamped in white on upper cover and spine (spine faded); very good and sound.

Glasgow, Johannesburg: Collins, 1959. 16mo, pp. 320; lexicon in double column; spine a bit sunned else a very good, sound copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.

London: Hakluyt Society, 2007. Large 8vo, pp. x, 404; 2 figures in the text and 8 maps; corrigenda leaf laid in, as issued; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 18 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. Corrigenda sheet laid in. This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished… Read more about this item

New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 778; map endpapers, frontispiece, 2 full-page maps, 71 illustrations on rectos and verswos of 16 plates plus other illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. "The first fully comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George… Read more about this item

Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 1996. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 348; 2 figures, 3 maps, and 5 tables; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued in the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. "The emergence and disintegration of states, often under conditions of appalling violence, is a problem of primary importance in the… Read more about this item

London & Boston: Faber and Farber, 1995. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 477, [1]; pages toning else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The provocative story of African-descended people outside Africa, spanning more than five centuries and a dozen countries of settlement, from Britain, Canada, and the United States to Haiti, Guyana, and Brazil.

New York: Chartwell Books, 2001. First American edition, 4to, pp. 171, [5]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 340; 24 illustrations on plates, and 22 figures in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Black Mountain is a chronicle of the struggles of many of the people - black and white - whose lives were rooted in one district of the South Africa highveld… Read more about this item

London amd New York: Routledge, 1989. First edition, 8vo, pp. 299, [1]; fine copy in original printed wrappers. "This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on domestic production,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 209, [1]; 4 maps, 6 figures in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "A historical study of the relationship between political and environmental change in Tanzania's northeastern lowlands, an impoverished region that has been afflicted by severe food shortages throughout the twentieth century" (jacket blurb).… Read more about this item

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 283, [1]; lexicon in double column; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The first comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Igbo language, one of the three national languages of Nigeria. Michael J. C. Echeruo, a native speaker of Igbo, focuses on basic words and… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [6], 326, [2]; 3 maps (2 double-page); remainder dot on bottom edge, else a fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket.

London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co, 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 5-330, [2]; 186 illustrations in the text throughout, mostly from photographs; previous owner's inscription; some spotting of the upper cover else very good and sound in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine.

Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1977. 11" x 8½", pp. [4], 41, [1]; 10 full-page illustrations; fine in original yellow saddlestitched wrappers. Issued as no. 1 in the publisher's Working Papers in the Traditional Arts series. "The original version of this working paper ... was prepared at the Conference on Traditional African Architecture ... September 24-26,… Read more about this item