Africa

Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1976 193 pages. Black and white photos. Numerous line drawings. Chapters in first paper include: The Evolution of the Fishing Method by Light Attraction; Fishing Unit M.F.V. France (a Greek purse seiner on Lake Tanganyika); The Cycle of Fishing Operations; Landing Facilities at Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania); Fishing Areas in Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania) for Industrial Fishing; Insurance of the Fishing Unit. Chapters in second paper include: Existing Fishing Methods and Gear for Small-Scale Fisheries - Advantages and Limitations; A Small-Scale Seine Fishing Unit; The Cycle of Fishing Operations; The Results obtained from Experimental Unit; Conclusions and Recommendations. Chapters in third paper include: An Outline of the Problem; The Fishing Unit; Seasonal Availability of Fishing Grounds; Choice of Fishing Grounds; The Results of Beach Seine Experimental Fishing; Beach Seining by Local Fishermen; Comparing Catches of BS-2 with Local Fishermen; Prototype Beach Seining Unit; Conclusions and Recommendations plus appendices. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy. . Draft Copy. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1900 320 pages. Protected black and white photographic frontis of Sir Redvers Henry Buller. List of Illustrations, Maps and Plans. Three appendices. Attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon front board. Front free endpaper removed. Modest evidence of pocket removal from inside front board. Prior owner's name atop half-title page. Black one inch wide strip across backstrip where library label removed. Narrow crack along each hinge. Above-average wear. . Hard Cover. Reading Copy. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: The British Museum, 1909 325 pages including extensive index. With black and white plates and illustrations in the text. Above-average wear. Boards attached but loosely. A worthy reference copy of this excellent reference. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Reading Copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1990 320 pages. "Inspired by a deep knowledge and love of the region, this magnificent book from two of the world's outstanding photographers is the record of a five-year jouney of discovery... A true celebration of the lives of those who still inhabit the cradle of mankind." - from dust jacket. 328 illustrations, including 244 plates in full color, 75 line drawings and 9 maps. A very heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Worthy as a reference copy only.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/Reading Copy. Illus. by Beckwith, Carol; Fisher, Angela. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Former Library Copy. more information

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London: His Majesty's Stationary Office 60 pages. Undated. Circa 1944. Loaded with amazing black and white photos and supporting text. Above-average wear. Folded in half. Fragile to handle but still a worthy reference copy. . Stapled. Reading Copy. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982 311 pages. Bibliography. "Examines the historical experiences of these people while focusing on recurrent themes: a deeply rooted kinship system based on lineages that feud as frequently as they cooperate; the gradual Islamization of the entire society through the work of itinerant Sufi saints; the rise and fall of regional sultanates and long-distance trade networks; and a history of resistance to foreign invaders." - from dust jacket. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in Brodart. A quality copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989 692 pages including index. "... probably the best one-volume work on the subject yet published" - Marcel Berlins, Times Educational Supplement. Covers the whole range of South African history from the earliest times. Minimal highlighting to text else unmarked. Average wear. Good working copy.. Third Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: New Society Publishers, 1989 198 pages including index. Accurately summarizes the latest scientific research, and contains the most up-to-date worldwide statistics on the AIDS epidemic. Covers: the HIV virus and how it causes AIDS; the second AIDS virus HIV-2; the prospects of vaccines and effective treatments; how the virus spreads; and much more. "An authoritative and comprehensive account." - Financial Times, London. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1978 194 pages including index. Answers the question: How does half a population, including many strong and independent-minded persons, come to believe in stereotypes that are self-denigrating? Unmarked. Well-worn. Binding intact.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Ballantine Books, 1991 304 pages including index and extensive references. The extraordinary struggle behind the bloody liberation of Kenya in the 1950s and the British deception that hid the truth from the world. "Important... Painstakingly researched... An essential work." - Los Angeles Times Book Review. Light wear. Unmarked. Glossy decorated covers. Contents lightly yellowed. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Nigeria: Federal Department of Antiquities, 1977 238 pages. 228 sumptuous photographic plates in colour and black and white. "Illustrates with examples the different types of Nigerian sculptures in terracotta, metal, stone and wood. Begins with examples from the earliest known works of some two thousand years ago and ends with material from the ethnographic present." - from Introduction. Printed in Switzerland. Includes references, detailed descriptions of plates, and fold-out map. Presentation bookplate, formerly mounted with now yellowed tape, now laid in at half-title page. Accompanying signatures of well-wishers occupy all of front free endpaper and most of front fixed endpaper. No other markings. Book is clean, bright, tight and square. Average wear to dust jacket which bears several short tears. A quality copy of this magnificent work. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Held, Andre and Ursula: Photographers. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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UK: Ward Lock, 1980 204 pages. "At a time when schools and colleges have been giving greater recognition to the disinctive religious backgrounds of the many minority groups in Britain, the West Indian community has been largely overlooked. This book sets out to redress the balance." - from back cover. Above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Possible light musty smell. A sound working copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1938 339 pages. Glossary. Index. Black and white photographic plates including frontis portrait of author. "One of the first really competent and instructive contributions to African ethnography by a scholar of pure African parentage." - from Introduction. Somewhat above-average external wear. Light blue library binding. Usual library markings to contents. Partial lean to spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former Library Colpy. more information

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Pretoria, South Africa: Africa Institute, 1975 101 pages including references and select bibliography. An objective appraisal of the position and role of the Black worker in South Africa. Discusses employment and earning patterns, details educational and training facilities available to the Black worker as well as the health, safety and security provided him, as well as industrial relations as they affect the Black worker, including the question of Black trade unions in South Africa. Provides a better understanding of the roots and symptoms of the problems concerning the Black worker by two academicians who have many years of research into labour and other economic problems of South Africa in particular and Africa in general. Book unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket with average wear and rubbing. Number '50' written upon front panel of dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866 638 pages plus fold out map and advertisements. Occasional black and white illustrations. "It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored, with their river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen, and all others interested in the cause of humanity, the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases - a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgement." - from Preface. "There must be something in the appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for, on entering villages previously unvisited by Europeans, if we met a child... he would take to his heels in an agony of terror, such as we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum." - from page 199. Fold-out map measures 24" wide by 17" high and is entitled "The River Shire, The Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa, The Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi & Rovuma" - based on the Astronomical observations and sketches of Dr. Livingstone, Constructed by John Arrowsmith, 1865. The routes of Dr. Livingstone and the Officers of the expedition are indicated in red. Map bears one inch tear along left side. Book has been recased with new beige endpapers and headbands supplied. Binding sound. Average wear. Unmarked. Lettering upon spine rubbed but legible. Quality copy. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: C. Hurst & Company, 1969 361 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Deals with the events that led from Nigerian independence to the secession of Biafra in 1967. The authors describe many of these events in greater detail than other author's have done, with a wealth of documentation. Their's is the Biafran point of view - the exposition of which is an important object of the book... Ends with Col. Ojukwu's declaration of Biafran independence and does not attempt to deal with the war situation." - from dust jacket. Light wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Prior owner's name inside front board. Handwritten notes upon back endpaper. Occasional markings throughout contents. A sound clean copy. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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South Africa: Hans Kirsten, 1990 Colour illustrated laminated boards. Colour watercolour illustrations upon each page. Unmarked moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Kyle Cathie Limited, 1991 223 pages. Magnificent colour photography. "No book on the Samburu has previously been published which combines such meticulous and hitherto unrecorded accounts of fascinating customs and ceremonies with such exceptional illustrations." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/Reading Copy. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Former Library Copy. more information

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South Africa: David Philip, 1990 64 pages. Colour illustrations. Includes stories drawn upon the rich and varied folk traditions of four southern African peoples: San, Xhosa, Tsonga, and Zulu. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Altshuler, Shanne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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South Africa: David Philip, 1989 48 pages. Colour illustrations. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy.. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Altshuler, Shanne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Ghana: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 1972 72 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Printed on glossy stock. "In adinkra patterns, which in the main consist of graphic patterns stamped into plain cloths, are mainly proverbs or maxims or history or philosophical summaries of ideas." - from Preface. Errata slip laid in. A sound copy. . Stapled. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, 1974 148 pages. Mr. Reed saw "Africa today as being in the 1938-39 phase of ... a 'planned and contrived' third war for purposes far removed from, and indeed the opposite of the professed aims of 'liberation'." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Pages yellowed with age at edges. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket. A sound copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Harper Collins, 1976 224 pages. Profusely illustrated with stunning colour photography. "One of the most outstanding film directors and documentary photographers of our time presents us with a volume of text and pictures whose unique documentary and artistic merits and contribution to cultural history make it a worthy successor to her book The Last of the Nuba which deals with the Mesakin Nuba... Her unforgettable photographic impressions of the life of the People of Kau bear final witness to a primitive tribe which is menaced by the advance of industrial civilization and slowly subsiding into the mists of time." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details upon verso of front free endpaper - this writing has lightly transposed to the half-title page. Moderate wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket. A sound copy of this incredible work.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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London: Bogle L'Ouverture Publications Ltd, 1988 312 pages. Index. "An inquiry into the inter-relations of Europe and Africa from the fifteenth century to the end of the colonial period... Examines African growth before the coming of the Europeans, using seven regions as concrete examples, and treats the European slave trade as a basic factor in African underdevelopment and technical stagnation... Places the awesome responsibility of redevelopment in the hands of Africans... Author was assassinated by agents of the Burnham government in 1980 following a year of political and industrial agitation." - from back cover. Prior owner's name inside front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. . Second Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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U.K.: Oxford University Press/Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1965 Contents include: Independence by Negotiations or Threat; The United Nations; The Making of Rhodesia; The Constitution; The Administration of African Affairs; Education; Political Parties; The Land, Peoples, and Economy; The Land Apportionment Act; Internal Security and Armed Forces; The Problem Ahead. Bound in library flexi-boards with usual library markings and some pink highlighting to contents. . Soft Cover. Reading Copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: John Murray, 1906 374 pages. Index. Appendices. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Spine slant. Some plates and maps missing. Binding intact. Offered as is. A worthy reading copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Reading Copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former Library Copy. more information

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London: John Murray, 1905 280 pages. Maps and illustrations. Appendices. "The essential subject of this work is the instruction of the German officer, and the criticisms which it contains point out, therefore, not only our alleged faults and errors, but show also what, in the opinion of the Great General Staff at Berlin, we ought to have done." - from Preface by Translator. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Spine slant. Binding intact. Offered as is. A worthy reading copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Reading Copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former Library Copy. more information

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Canada: The New Finland Historical and Heritage Society, 1982 314 pages. Decorated endpapers. Black and white illustrations throughout. An excellent history of the development and hardy people of the area. Above-average wear externally. Binding intact. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound reference copy.. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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USA: Westview Press, 1986 322 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The first comprehensive analysis of the Zimbabwean struggle for independence in its international context." - from opening leaf. Prior owner's details neatly printed inside front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Quality copy.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1907 Total of 1270 pages in two volumes. Profusely illustrated with line diagrams, black and white photographic plates and fold-outs. Heavily worn former library copy with usual library markings. Front free endpaper and half-title removed from Vol. 1. All hinges taped. Gilt lettering and decorations upon front boards worn but visible. First volume missing pages 327-330 which includes a plate. Tissue protector missing from plate at page 502 of v1. All other plates and protectors present. Bibliography. Index. Reading copy only. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Reading Copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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