Search Results: HISTORY - Africa - East Books

London: Collins, 1978 2nd ptg. 112pp. illus. hardback 4to: Fine in a near Fine dj [ink name ffep; else F]

Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1971 1st ed. 154pp. brown cloth 8vo: Good+ in a near Very Good dj [slight mustiness; ink name ffep; top & fore edges show foxing; else G+; dj = light paper is age darkened; else nrVG] An examination of British Tanganyika from 1918 until the early 1950s.

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Lithuanian Days Publishers, 1954. 1st Edition, ex-library. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cream boards with green letters. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. One of twelve hundred copies. Now first completely done into English from the original Lithuanian of Vincas Ramonas. Crosses is a story beginning about 1940 when Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia conspired to destroy and absorb the territory lying between them. DJ has a half inch chip on the front panel. Usual ex-library stamps and card pocket. 329 pages. 01

Hardcover in blue boards with black spine with gilt lettering. Originally published in 1913 this hardcover edition published in the United States by Barnes & Noble in 1966. No DJ. Tight binding Unmarked text Ex-Library with usual markings. 351 pages. Title and Copyright pages have whiteout on botton of each page, respectivily. Being an Account of British East Africa, its Ancient History and present Inhabitants. Illustrations/Photographs East Africa History, Zinj, Ostafrika, Afrika, Geography, Colonialism 020821

Trade Paperback, Excellent Condition

BRAND NEW. Excellent condition. Has remainder mark. Never read or opened. (50-6H1559707240)

Paperback 249 pages, very good condition.

Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dustjacket has some wear. Cover has some wear and several small rough spots in upper left rear. Fourth printing. Revised.

Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House, 1972 1st ed. 56pp. staple-bound paperback 8vo: near Very Good [some scuffing of red cover paper; ink name; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy] Historical Association of Kenya Paper No. 1.

xciii+379 pages 14 plates including frontispiece, 4 maps (2 in color), appendices, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship Victoria to front cover. in original jacket. Laid in Annual Report and text of the talk by Wendy James on "Re-discovering Schuver's Africa" 32 pages with map and photographs, with statement of accounts and obituary of Terence E Armstrong. Octavo issued in wrappers.Foreword by Jan Schuver. Second Series, volume 184. First edition. Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-nineteenth century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to the East African coast. This ambition was frustrated, mainly because of local political turbulence following the Mahdist challenge to the Sudanese… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Second Impression. Illustrated with photos, drawings & maps. Foldout Map. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 308 pp. includes Index. Illustrated endpapers. Front panel and spine case has narrow sunned strip on lower edge. Clean with square, firm binding. Unclipped DJ has light wear to top edge. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

SIGNED JUSTICE R on the front free end page and thus signed by author Rayne; as Dictrict Commissioner, Rayne was directly responsible to the governor for the administration of justice (divorce, marriage, thievery, homicide) in Ziala District, a region in the north-west of then British Somalia.  This is the first edition of a scarce book that gives an insight into colonial administration in British Somalia early 1900s. Book finishes with an account of author's dealings with the Mad Mullah (1919). That Was the first occasion on which the RAF was used for colonial policing. Group Captain Gordon led a squadron of twelve De Havilland DH9s, transported on HMS Ark Royal.  Book is in GOOD plus condition with 12 plates. The frontispiece is tissue-protected. Note rubbing on spine.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart [1932], 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-317, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with a lion in red on the front board and red lettering on the spine; dark blue topstain and rough-cut fore-edge. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Lacks copyright and title page. Second issue of the first American edition. Ahearn APG 007c. Book shows a small lean with a bit of wear to the bottom edges; jacket has two lines underlined on the front flap, and moderate toning and edge wear.

London & New York: Longmans, Green, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 253pp., red cloth rubbed Chapter 1: "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to the Ethiopian Question"

[2]+514+[4 contents and errata]+[2] pages with 2 folding maps, lacks frontispiece. Small Quarto (10" x 7 3/4"). Rebacked in the 19th century leather, retaining the original spine with raised bands and gilt decorative stamping and lettering to spine. Translated from the original Portuguese manuscripts by Jackim le Grande. First edition.Born in Lisbon, he entered the Order of Jesus at the age of sixteen. In 1621 he was ordered as a missionary to India, and in 1622 he arrived at Goa. With the intention of proceeding to Abyssinia, whose Negus (emperor) Segued had been converted to Roman Catholicism by Pedro Páez, he left India in 1624. He disembarked on the coast of Mombasa, and attempted to reach his destination through the Galla country, but was forced to return. In 1625 he set out again, accompanied by Mendez, the patriarch of Ethiopia, and eight missionaries. The party landed on the coast of the Red Sea, and Lobo settled in Abyssinia as superintendent of the missions in Tigre. He remained there until… Read More