Africa from Tannery Books

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. Hardcover. Ex-library. Bliss Forbush, Moses Sheppard, Quaker Philanthropist of Baltimore, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. Brown cloth hc with pink metallic lettering on spine, 8vo (20 cm), 318 pp with notes and index. Topics include Quaker relations with American Indians and with slaves, including colonization in Liberia. Good/no DJ: ex-library with… Read more

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1929. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Caroline Singer, Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, White Africans and Black, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1929. Illustrated travelogue of early 20th-century west Africa. Geometrically illustrated cloth hc, 4to (32 cm), [ii] 120 pp [2 printer info, six color plates, heavily illustrated. Dustjacket flap and clippings laid… Read more

New York: British Information Services. Paperback. Fair. African Victory with the British Forces from el Alamein to Cape Bon, New York, British Information Services [1943-1944]. Stapled red paper covers with bw photos, 64 pp counting covers, bw photos and history of expulsion of Axis forces from northern Africa, 1942-1943 in World War II. Fair: staples rusting, worn and… Read more

New York: British Information Services, 1945. First printing. Paperback. Good. African Challenge: The Story of the British in Tropical Africa, New York, British Information Services, 1945, First printing. Green paper covers with bw illustrations, 64 pp, bw illustrations and maps. Exploration, slavery, British involvement and colonization, and future improvements. Good: corners bumped, lightly tanned, no markings. printed… Read more

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Chronicle of the author's sojourn among the Dodoth tribe of northern Uganda. Blue cloth hc, 8vo, xxviii, 258 pp, 32 plates of bw photos. Maps and glossary. Illustrated dustjacket. Good (ex-library)/Good: pocket and markings, no underlining; DJ has tape on spine, small tears at edge. Printed in USA