Search Results: Africa from The Story Shop

London: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dustjacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 436 pages .

Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine. 1972. Softcover. 8vo; 317 pages .

Moscow: Nauka Publishers. Very Good+ with no dustjacket. 1985. Hardcover. In English. ; 8vo; 304 pages .

Moscow: Nauka Publishers. Very Good+ with no dustjacket. 1985. Hardcover. In English. ; 8vo; 294 pages .

London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. Nyoro symbolism, the ethnographic record. Medicine, fetish and secret society in a West African culture. Some notions of purity and impurity among the Zulu. More. ; 8vo; 97 pages .

London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1977. Softcover. Initiation into the Bori cult. Sacrifice and social structure among the Kuranko. Art and immortality among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Marriage payments, household structure, and domestic labour-supply among the Barma of Chad. More. ; 8vo; 122 pages .

London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. Generation classes among the Mbeere of Central Kenya. Myth, ritual and the authority of elders in an Ethiopian society. Analysis of an African Zionist ritual. A fiction of Chagga initiation and its relation to the logic of Chagga symbolism. More. ; 8vo; 115 pages .

London: International African Institute. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. The case of Yoruba crowns, 1900-1960. Colour symbolism and ideology in a Ghanaian healing movement. Food and female fertility in a West African society. More. ; 8vo; 111 pages .

Doubleday. Good in Good dustjacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library book with all typical marks and defects as such, else good+ and very sound with clean text pages and covers. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. ; "The story of the return of a native three hundred years later." ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 281 pages .

The Hague: Dr. W. Junk B. V. Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good- dustjacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket is rubbed and has light wear. ; Photos, fold-out page. "In this book an effort has been made to describe the impact man has had on the African environment and to suggest what the immediate and ultimate consequences of his actions are. " ; 8vo; 236 pages .

London: Chatto & Windus. 1961. Hardcover. Very good+, name, date on ffep, in very good jacket, sm. Stains. ; St. Antony's Papers, Number 10. .

Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press. Very Good with no dustjacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Xx, 1103pp. .

Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine, few smudges on spine. ; 501pp. Tunisia, Senegal, Guinea, The Ivory Coast, Liberia, Tanganyika. .

Canadian Association of African Studies. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. In English and French. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages .

Frederick A. Praeger. Very Good with no dustjacket. 1967. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual library marks, else very good and clean. ; 8vo; 364 pages .

University of California Press. Very Good+. 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Signed presentation from the author on front free endpaper. Field was curator of Field Museum. ; 8vo; 352 pages .

University of California. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. 1975. Hardcover. "The first intensive case study of multinational corporations in Africa from the standpoint of political science. It describes the changing relationship between the people of Zambia and a mining industry that has dominated the economy of this country for the past fifty years. " ; 8vo; 245 pages .

Ohio Univ.. Near Fine. 1969. Softcover. Papers in International Studies Africa Series No. 3. .

Houghton Mifflin Co.. Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve. ; "During a tour in West Africa as correspondent for Newsweek, Berkeley Rice spent more than six months in Gambia. His report brings us a fresh, irreverent look at the problems and pretenses of independence, and a compassionate view of the untrained Gambians and unappreciated British officials who are trying to turn this ill-equipped, impoverished former colony into a viable member of the family of nations." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 389 pages .

Helix Water District. Very Good. 1995. Softcover. Light cover wear. Title on the rear cover was colored with a marker. Interior is very good and clean, and the pop-up state of California map is very nice. ; Illustrated storybook for children about the travels of a drop of rain through the hydrologic cycle. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .