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LA DECORATION PRIMITIVE AFRIQUE - [translates to PRIMITIVE AFRICA DECORATION]

by Lepage, P - C.

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Used - very good, unbound sheets, wraps (softcover) NO BOX AS PUBLISHED
Published
1920
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PB
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Walpole, New Hampshire, USA
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$70.00

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Paris: Librairie Arts Decoratifs, 1920. PB. very good, unbound sheets, wraps (softcover) NO BOX AS PUBLISHED. 42 B&W and color plates. Complete set of 8 pages of text followed by 42 plates, of which 6 are in color. LACKS original portfolio/box. IMAGES AVAILABLE.
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$70.00
MOMBO - OKAVANGO'S PLACE OF PLENTY
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MOMBO - OKAVANGO'S PLACE OF PLENTY

by Myers, Mike; Hoets, Penny; and, Woodrow, Grant

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Used - fine, olive green cloth (hardcover)
Published
2004
Binding
HC
ISBN
9780620318006
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Walpole, New Hampshire, USA
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$275.00

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Rivonia, South Africa: Wilderness Safaris Ltd, 2004. HC. fine, olive green cloth (hardcover). color illustrations. ISBN 0620318007 Impressive presentation of what a safari is here in this special area. Gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper presenting this copy as a memory to a couple who toured in 2008. Signed, and with sticker below from… Read more about this item
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$275.00
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SOUTH AFRICAN ROCK PICTURS - SCIENCE GUIDE #93 - GUIDE LEAFLET SERIES - [Original 1937 Edition]

by Nelson, N. C.

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Used - good, wraps (softcover) - lower corner fold
Published
1937
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PB
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$17.50

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New York: Amer. Museum Natural History, 1937. PB. good, wraps (softcover) - lower corner fold. B&W and color illustrations. Reprinted from Natural History Magazine, November 1937, Volume XL. 12pp.
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MANDINKO: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A WEST AFRICAN HOLY LAND

by Schaffer, Matt and Cooper, Christine

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Used - good, wraps (softcover)
Published
1980
Binding
PB
ISBN
0881332941116
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$7.50

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Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc, 1980. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0881332941 116pp.
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$7.50
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MAKISHI LYA ZAMBIA - MASK CHARACTERS OF THE UPPER ZAMBEZI PEOPLES

by Felix, Marc Leo and Jordan, Manuel

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Used - fine, pictorial boards (hardcover)
Published
1998
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HC
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$125.00

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Munchen, Germany: Verlag Fred Jahn, 1998. HC. fine, pictorial boards (hardcover). color illustrations. Text in English and Germany. 370pp.
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$125.00
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THE STORY OF THE BRITISH SETTLERS OF 1820 IN SOUTH AFRICA - Second Enlarged & Revised Edition

by Hockly, Harold Edward

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Used - good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1957
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HC
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$30.00

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Cape Town, South Africa: Juta & Co., Limited, 1957. HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. First published in 1948. This book chronicles the arrival of the Settlers of 1820 on the shores of Southern Africa; their location on the Eastern Frontier of the old Cape Colony as a buffer against the increasing migration of the Bantu… Read more about this item
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THE KENYA POLICE 1887-1960

by Foran, W. Robert (foreword by R. C. Catling)

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Used - good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1962
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HC
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London: Robert Hale Limited, 1962. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Laid in are six vintage photographs of the Police - group and individual shots. 237pp.
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$125.00
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BAAL, CHRIST, AND MOHAMMED - RELIGION AND REVOLUTION IN NORTH AFRICA

by Cooley, John K. (maps by Charles McDonnell)

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Used - good+, white cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - EX-LIB w/one mark
Published
1965
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HC
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. HC. good+, white cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket - EX-LIB w/one mark. 369pp.
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AFRICA CONTEMPORARY RECORD, VOLUME XIII - ANNUAL SURVEY AND DOCUMENTS 1980-1981

by Legum, Colin (edited by)

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Used - very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) EX-LIB with marks
Published
1981
Binding
HC
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Walpole, New Hampshire, USA
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$85.00

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New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1981. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) EX-LIB with marks. ISBN 0814905517 Ex-Lib with the usual markings. Nice tight copy.
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$85.00
UNITED STATES INTERESTS AND POLITICS IN AFRICA - TRANSITION TO A NEW ERA
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UNITED STATES INTERESTS AND POLITICS IN AFRICA - TRANSITION TO A NEW ERA

by Magyar, Karl P. (edited by)

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Used - fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
2000
Binding
HC
ISBN
9780312223885
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New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc, 2000. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0312223889 "During the closing days of the Cold War Africans correctly sensed that this profound development would soon impact on the role that Africa had experienced during that era." 193pp.
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$30.00
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NORTH AFRICA'S FRENCH LEGACY, 1954-1962 - Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs IX

by Gordon, David C.

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Used - very good, wraps (softcover)
Published
1962
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PB
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). A survey of the cultural relationship between France and the North African nations of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria since the Second World War. 121pp.
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$10.00
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CURTAIN-UP ON SOUTH AFRICA - PRESENTING A NATIONAL DRAMA

by Allighan, Garry

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Used - good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1960
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HC
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London: T. V. Boardman & Co., Ltd, 1960. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 276pp.
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$7.50
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THE VANISHING TRIBES OF KENYA - [Original Edition]

by Browne, J. Orde (Major G. St J. Orde Browne)

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Used - good+, light brownish cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB w/minimal marks
Published
1925
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HC
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$60.00

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London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1925. HC. good+, light brownish cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB w/minimal marks. B&W illustrations, maps. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF THE PRIMITIVE & INTERESTING TRIBES DWELLING ON THE VAST SOUTHERN SLOPES OF MOUNT KENYA, & THEIR FAST DISAPPEARING NATIVE METHODS OF LIFE. Ex-lib from a small county library, and checked out only… Read more about this item
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$60.00
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BACK TO THE LONG GRASS: MY LINK WITH LIVINGSTONE - with dustjacket

by Crawford, Dan

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Used - very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1920
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HC
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New York: George H. Doran Co, 1920. HC. very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The author has based his book on David Livingstone's last pioneer journey: mile by mile he takes us southward through a still untouched Dark Continent and as we travel he pours out for us the great wealth of his African knowledge." 373pp. … Read more about this item
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AN AMERICAN ARTIST IN AFRICA, 1937: SKETCH BOOK AND DIARY
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AN AMERICAN ARTIST IN AFRICA, 1937: SKETCH BOOK AND DIARY

by Norstrom, Wanda (designed and edited by Georgiana Peacher)

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Used - very good+, wraps (softcover)
Published
1991
Binding
PB
ISBN
9780963035707
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$8.00

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South Portland, ME: Pearl Shedding Press, 1991. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0963035703 The contents of this book were taken from Wanda's diary, letters, and sketches in graphite, ink, and water color. 112pp.
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$8.00
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ALONG THE AFRIC SHORE: AN HISTORIC REVIEW OF TWO CENTURIES OF U.S.-AFRICAN RELATIONS

by Howe, Russell Warren

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Used - very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1975
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HC
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London: New African Library, 1975. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Traces the US political role for two hundred years on the Barbary Coast, in West Africa, at the Cape, in Ethiopia, on Madagascar and Zanzibar. 197pp.
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$8.00
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AFRICA IN PERSPECTIVE - Hayden Series in Social Studies

by Singleton, F. Seth and Shingler, John

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Used - good+, pictorial boards (hardcover)
Published
1967
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HC
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New York: Hayden Book Company, 1967. HC. good+, pictorial boards (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 310pp.
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$7.50
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THE SONJO OF TANGANYIKA: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF AN IRRIGATION-BASED SOCIETY

by Gray, Robert F.

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Used - good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) some pencil marks
Published
1963
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HC
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London: Oxford University Press, 1963. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) some pencil marks. B&W illustrations. The first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society has been studied in detail and its implications explored. 182pp.
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$10.00
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A SHORT HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

by Marquard, Leo

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Used - very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1970
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HC
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New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 8 B&W plates, 8 maps. The author traces the story of the various peoples that have contributed to the making of modern South Africa. He lays the goundwork for his study with an account of the native cultures of South Africa and discusses economic and political developments… Read more about this item
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AFRICA: PROGRESS THROUGH COOPERATION

by Karefa-Smart, John (editor)

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Used - very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover)
Published
1966
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HC
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). Studies of the racial and economic problems of Africa and of the rapid changes taking place are made by leading authorities in the affairs of that continent. These subjects were explored at an African Conference on Progress through Cooperation held in 1965 at Makerere University… Read more about this item
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