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By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Roma, Lesotho, Institute for Southern Africa Studies, National University of Lesotho: 1983
Seller ID: 23255
Condition: Very good
Quarto (30 cm), pp. 112. Blue paper wrappers. Xeroxed newspaper articles on hand-numbered pages from nine English language publications in Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, and Qwa Qwa. Wrappers are sunned, with light edge wear. View more info
By: Ahamed, Liaquat
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15370
ISBN: 159420182X
Condition: Very good
Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 564. Light gray boards with dark gray quarter binding, silver spine titling and pictorial jacket. Includes bibliography, notes and index. Jacket has light wear, text block smudged. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: B.M. Khaketla
Price: $12.00
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co.: 1971
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 6897
Condition: Very good
Octavo (22 cm), pp. 350. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Includes index, map of Lesotho. Jacket has moderate wear, boards are crimped at corners. Gift inscription on free front endpaper. Stain on bottom and side edges. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: British Information Services
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Central Office of Information: 1966
Seller ID: 15592
Condition: Very good
Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 32 pages. Unknown edition. Staplebound green and white wrappers, includes black and white photos, map of Botswana. Small pen mark on page 32, stain on back cover. Light edge wear. View more info
By: Catlos, Brian A.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 2014
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 14609
ISBN: 0809058375
Condition: Near fine
Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 390. Gray boards with silver spine text. Slight bumping to corners and jacket edges. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: Coates, Austin
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1966
Seller ID: 6819
Condition: Very good
Octavo (22 cm), pp. 134. Red cloth boards, pictorial jacket and endpapers. Includes index, fold-out map, b/w photos. Jacket has moderate wear, tears and chips along edges. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Maseru, Lesotho, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation: 1989
Seller ID: 15577
Condition: Very good
Octavo (20 cm), pp. 217. Unknown edition. Green paper wrappers with white titling. Includes presentations, lectures and reports from the seminar which took place in December 1987. Topics include trade, infrastructure, culture, communications, agriculature, ecology and more. The opening speech of King Moshoeshoe II, who attended and participated in the entire proceedings, is included as well. Wrappers have rub marks, light edge wear. View more info
By: De Lamartine, Alphonse and William Ware
Price: $150.00
Publisher: London, Simms and McIntyre: 1850
Seller ID: 23365
Condition: Good
Two volumes in one binding. 12mo (15.5 cm), pp.288, 283. Contemporary half-leather over marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt spine text. Boards are scuffed and worn, scattered foxing, and what appears to be residue from a book plate (now removed). These two books were published as part of Simms and McIntyre's Parlour Library series, originally bound in stiff green paper boards. Called "yellow-backs," these reprints were made and sold cheaply, so as to be accessible to the average person. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Tom Doherty: 1997
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1195
ISBN: 0312862385
Condition: Fine
Octavo (21 cm), pp. 283. Inscribed and signed on title page by Eickhoff to Spur Award-winning author Richard Wheeler: "For Richard- Who broke the new ground and inspires us all. Randy Lee Eickhoff." Later printing. Black boards, gilt titling. Includes glossary of names and terms. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Eschel Rhoodie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Twin Circle Publishing: 1967
Seller ID: 6817
Condition: Very good
284 pages with index. Jacket has moderate wear along edges and at corners, and is faded along the spine. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Flannery, Tim
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 2010
Seller ID: 10621
ISBN: 080211976X
Condition: Very good
Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 316.First edition thus. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine and an 'A' stamped on front board. Includes full color photographs throughout. Small stain on bottom corner of front dust jacket. Dust jacket present. View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, Longman Group: 1973
Seller ID: 23233
ISBN: 0582602513
Condition: Very good
Reprint. 12mo. (18.5 cm), pp. 192. Pictorial wrappers have light edge wear, few pages dog-eared. Includes black and white photos, notes for teachers, and index. A condensed edition of Fyfe's seminal 1962 History of Sierra Leon, this version "was cherished in many Freetown homes, and became an indispensable text in schools." Fyfe chanced into his role as the authoritative historian of Western Africa when his brother-in-law tapped him in 1950 to be the official archivist for Sierra Leone. (Hargreaves, The Guardian, 10/27/08). View more info
By: Gafney, Fr. Thomas E. and Sampurna Man Maskey
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal Jesuit Society: 1989
Seller ID: 23257
Condition: Very good
A contemporaneous copy of a three-page, staplebound speech given by Maskey on his first-hand experiences as a heroin addict and subsequent recovery with the help of the Jesuit-founded Freedom Centre (a drug rehab program for boys and men); with statistics and observations of the drug problem in Nepal more broadly. Also includes a two-page companion piece by Gafney, founder of St. Xavier Social Centre which houses the Freedom Centre, on how authority figures should direct youth away from "the attractive but unattainable elements of the modern world..." Both pieces have light edge wear, ... View more info
By: Goltz, Thomas
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 23873
ISBN: 0765602431
Condition: Very good
Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 496. Presentation copy, inscribed by author to actor Margot Kidder: "To the Miss K, wih warmest and deepest from Tommy the Traveling Turk to his [illegible] camera crew ... Deadrock, July 4, 1998." Pictorial jacket, black boards with red quarter cloth, gilt titling. Includes black and white photos, index. Spine is cocked, jacket has light edge wear. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper Torchbooks: 1973
Seller ID: 13098
Condition: Very good
Octavo (20cm), pp. 149. Very small closed tear at top cover, light staining on textblock. View more info
By: Hugot, Henri
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques: 1962
Seller ID: 9930
Condition: Good
Quarto (27 cm), pp. 376. Paperback in paper wrapper. Four color plates and maps tipped in throughout, including two foldout maps. Illustrated with many b/w photos of rock art, projectile points and other artifacts. Front cover is loose at hinge, paper wraps are well-worn with numerous chips and tears. Documenting two French scientific expeditions in the Sahara desert sponsored by the truck company Berliet in order to demonstrate the ruggedness of their vehicles. Experts in biology, archaeology, geology and ethnography all contributed chapters. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: I. Schapera (ed)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cape Town, Maskew Miller Limited: 1962
Seller ID: 10496
Condition: Good
Octavo (23 cm), pp. 453 with index. Later printing. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tan jacket with red lettering. Includes map of "Distribution of Bantu-Speaking Tribes of the Union of South Africa." Jacket has moderate edge wear, along with substantial moisture damage to spine, back of jacket and back board. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Jackson, Ashley
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa: 1999
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 6901
ISBN: 0198207646
Condition: Near fine
Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 281. Black boards with gilt titling, navy blue jacket. Includes bibliography and index, advance copy slip from publisher laid in. Jacket has slight wear along top edge. Small spot on top edge. Jackson is a military and imperial historian who specializes in the British Empire. This book covers a time period he pinpoints as a turning point between the third and fourth eras of the British Empire. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: Kanoo, Khalid M.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, London Centre of Arab Studies: 1997
Edition: First edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 11997
ISBN: 1900404036
Condition: Very good
Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 323.Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "To Trey, With my best wishes. I liked what I saw. Khalid 4/7/08." Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket and boards have light edge wear, a few spots of soiling on upper board. A history of the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo group, one of the oldest and largest family-owned businesses in the Persian Gulf. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Rondebosch, South Africa, Radical Students Society: 1969
Seller ID: 15598
Condition: Very good
Octavo (23 cm), pp. 27. Bright yellow wrappers with black lettering, staplebound. Includes articles on Ideology (G. Siann), Industrialization, Race Relations and the Future of South Africa (R. Kaplinsky), The University and Cultural Criticism (P. Gaffley), Social Change (T. Bredenkamp), and The Impoverishment of Latin America (Juan Bosch). Wrappers have sun damage around edges. Radical was the publication of the Radical Students' Society at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. According to an article on South African History Online ("Conservative Revolutionaries: 'Anti-Apartheid Ac... View more info
