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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
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
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
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
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: Buel, I.W.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Historical Publishing Co.: 1890
Seller ID: 24913
Large octavo (26.5 cm), pp. [2], 17-590, [8]. Red cloth-covered boards with half-leather and gilt stamping. Marbled text block edges, blue speckled endpapers. Color frontispiece, two-color title page. Profusely illustrated throughout with engravings, initial letters and several full-page plates of chromolithographs. Two-page fold out map of Africa (John Ogilby, 1670). Six pages of advertisements. Pencil provenance notation on front free endpaper describing the book being... View more info
By: Catlos, Brian A.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 2014
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 14609
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
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: Cooney, Kara
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishing: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15487
Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 298. Black boards with gilt spine titling, pictorial jacket, deckle edge. Map of ancient Egypt is on endpapers, includes index. Jacket has very slight edge wear. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Maseru, Lesotho, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation: 1989
Seller ID: 15577
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: Dampier, William
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Adam and Charles Black: 1937
Seller ID: 15517
Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 376. Reprint. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine titling. Includes four maps (three foldout), reproduction of original 1697 title page and a page from Dampier's journal, bibliographic preface by N.M. Prenser, introduction by Sir Albert Gray, president of the Hakluyt Society, and index. Boards have light edge and corner wear. No jacket. Gift inscription dated 1946 on free front endpaper. View more info
By: De Lamartine, Alphonse and William Ware
Price: $150.00
Publisher: London, Simms and McIntyre: 1850
Seller ID: 23365
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... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Tom Doherty: 1997
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1195
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
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
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
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 arc... 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
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... View more info
By: Goltz, Thomas
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 23873
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
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
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 ... View more info
By: I. Schapera (ed)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cape Town, Maskew Miller Limited: 1962
Seller ID: 10496
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
