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The Voyage of the Dayspring. Being the Journal of the late Sir John Hawley Glover, R.N., G.C.M.G., together with some account of the Expedition up the Niger River in 1857
by Hastings, A. C. G.
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(London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926). Demy 8vo; original turquoise cloth, with margins of upper board ruled in blind and spine lettered in gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. xiii + (iii) + 230, incl. index; several plates. Cloth slightly stippled; moderate foxing throughout. Good condition. (Hess & Coger 7055) 'Nigeria is a country that has… Read more
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In the Service of Nigeria. Monograph No. 2 of The Nigerian Field. The International Field Studies Journal of West Africa
by Bridges, A.F.B.
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(The Nigerian Field Society: December 1980). 245 x 183 mm; card wrappers; pp. 64; black-and-white photographs. Wrappers slightly curled and creased; a little scattered foxing. "Frank Bridges founded the Nigerian Field Society in 1930; The Nigerian Field was first published in 1931 under his editorship. Frank was born in 1895 in Shahpur, Punjab and entered the Navy… Read more
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The Life of Thomas Truscott, Missionary to Sierra Leone
by Kirsop, Joseph
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(London: Andrew Crombie, no date). Inscription to front free endpaper reads: "Percy Leverton. From the Bible Christian Missionary Society. 1898." Small 8vo; original dark green cloth over beveled boards, upper board and spine blocked in black and gilt; blind-stamped border and decorative device to lower board; a.e.g.; pp. 165 + adverts; frontis. portrait, with tissue guard. Cloth… Read more
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African rural-urban migration: the movement to Ghana's towns
by Caldwell, John C.
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(New York, Columbia University Press, 1969). Dustwrapper, partly and slightly stained, black cloth, pp. xi + 257 + (1), tables. 'In the fast-growing populations of the developing tropics, rural areas are no longer able to absorb the vast increases in their populations. In Ghana the result is striking-over a quarter of the population now lives in the towns. This book… Read more
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Land of the Niamoo: travels in the forests of Equatorial Africa
by Le Roy, Marcel
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(London, Arthur Barker, 1954). Translated from the French by M.A. Michael. Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, with slight loss, original cloth, pp. 175, plates. Endpapers, preliminary pages and margins foxed. Upper Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia. .
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West Africa under colonial rule
by Crowder, Michael
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(Evanston, 1968). Pictorial dustwrapper, very slightly frayed, original cloth, pp. 540, folding map. Owner's name on the front pastedown endpaper. .
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