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African Affairs: Journal of the Royal African Society. Volume 82, No. 327. April, 1983

Twaddle, Michael & Hodder-Williams, Richard · 1983

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

O.U.P. London, 1983. First Thus, Paperback. Fine/N/A.. cover and text clean and bright, tight binding, previous owner's signature fep. includes articles on: Regional Co-operation in S. Africa; the U.S.A. & Africa; Nigerian Civil War; & Indigenization policy & Israeli foreign p...

A Comprehensive Geography of West Africa

Udo, Reuben K · 1985

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1985. Reprint, Paperback, Illustrated by: Photo's, Sketch Maps. Good/N/A.. 9780435959159 pictorial cover, profusely illust. throughout with b/w. phot's. & many maps & diagrams, school stamp inside front cover, 304 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾...

The Drums Speak - The Story of Kofi, a Boy of West Africa

Bernheim, Marc & Evelyne · 1971

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1971. First Edition, Illustrated Boards, Illustrated by: Photo's. Good/No Jacket (as published). 9780152242336 A bright clean copy with only slight thinning at edge of front end-paper where it was stuck to half-title page & imprint of paper...

A Name Among Seafaring Men - a History of the Training Ship General Botha.

Grutter, Wilhelm · 1973

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The T.B.F. Davis Memorial Sailing Trust, Cape Town, South Africa, 1973. First Edition, Brown Cloth, Illustrated by: Photo's. Very Good/Good. 9780620011518 gilt titles spine & front; black outline drawing of the ship front cover; gilt emblem on front & rear end papers; some wea...

The Voice of the Thunder

Van Der Post, Laurens. · 1993

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1993. First Thus, Blue Cloth. As New/Very Good. 9780701160364 gilt titles spine; (price intact) D/J has only 2 slight nicks at top; An urgent manifesto for renewal in the human spirit the book contains previously published essays 'The Little Memory' an...

The Seeds of Disaster (SIGNED COPY)

Laurence, John · 1968

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Gollancz, London, 1968. First Edition, Red Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author. gilt titles spine, signed presentation copy from the author to "Edward Bond" (the playwright) in an almost fine dust jacket (a minute tear at the bottom back corner)-price intact, a guide to th...

Historic Farms of South Africa

Fairbridge, Dorothea · 1931

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Oxford University Press, London, 1931. First Edition, Buckram Cloth, Illustrated by: Prints,photos.sketches & Maps. Very Good/No Jacket. 'The wool, the wheat, and the wine of the 17th and 18th Centuries'.. With col. frontisp, 40 full-page plates, one of which is col, and one f...

Magistrates of England and Wales, The: Western Circuit: Cornwall; Devonshire; Dorsetshire;; Hampshire; Somersetshire; Wiltshire

Thurston, E. J. (compiler) · 1940

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Privately Printed, Hereford, 1940. First Edition, Hardcover (Vellum & Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Jacket. white vellum spine with textured blue cloth covers; printed on title page: "Limited Edition - One Guinea"; A "Who's Who" style alphabetical directory of all the Magistr...

The Annual Register of the University of Cambridge for the Year 1960-61

Cambridge University · 1961

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Annual Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1961. First Edition, Red Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; blue e/p's. with adverts; extensive alphabetical list of the members of the university in all departments, colleges & offices for this year, which runs to, inc...

Murmur on the Monsoon (SIGNED COPY)

Yates, Katherine · 1974

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

The Mitre Press, London, 1974. First Edition, Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9780705101929 Signed by Author. gilt titles spine; inscription in the poet's hand on front endpaper dated 11th March, 1974 reads: "For Bessie & Monty from Kate" & her signature appears under her pr...

Victorian Poetry 1830 - 1870

Scott, Patrick (editor) · 1977

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Longman, London, 1977. Third Impression, Paperback. Very Good/N/A. 9780582341784 white titles spine; a volume in the Longman's English Series; 'Victorian.' is interpreted here as the decades between 1830 and 187O - a time not only of social and intellectual change, but also of...

The Poems of Jonathan Swift

Colum, Padraic (Editor) · 1962

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Collier Books, New York, New York, U.S.A. 1962. First Edition, Paperback. Very Good/N/A. black titles spine; "one of the most widely read prose writers in English, Swift has been generally kept out of the canon of English poetry. Yet the quality of his verse is so great that a...

Blütenkranz neuer Deutscher Dichtung

Gottschall, Rudolf Von · 1897

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Eduard Trewendt, Breslau, 1897. Early Editions, Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/N/A. front & spine pictorially decorated green cloth with gilt titles; (Vorder-und Wirbelsäule bildlich grünen Tuch mit goldenen Titeln dekoriert;); gold & brown decorated endpapers; all edges gilt (Al...

La Gerusalemme Liberata (4 volume set)

Tasso, Torquato · 1835

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Parigi : Baudry, Paris, France, 1835. First Thus, Hardcover (Half Leather). Good/N/A. gilt titles & decorations on leather spine glued to green cloth spine (probably re-bound as volume III lacks leather spine & all endpapers are newer than original pages); gilt decorative fill...

Poesie

De’ Medici, Lorenzo · 1859

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Barbera Branchi E Comp, Florence, Italy, 1859. First Thus, Hardcover (Half Leather). Near Fine/N/A. Lorenzo de’Medici (1449-92) was the ruler of Florence and the principal statesman of his time. A contemporary of Columbus, Lorenzo is hardly known in the English-speaking world ...

Meditations

Lamartine, Alphonse De · 1833

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

E. Laurent, Brussels, Belgium, 1833. First Thus, Leather. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles spine with four raised bands; blind-stamped outer border line front & rear covers; brown ribbon bookmark; b/w. vignette engraving title page; French text; previous owner's names to f.e.p.; lig...

Harmonies

Lamartine, Alphonse De · 1833

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

E. Laurent, Brussels, Belgium, 1833. First Thus, Leather. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles spine with four raised bands; blind-stamped outer border line front & rear covers; brown ribbon bookmark; b/w. vignette engraving title page; French text; previous owner's names to f.e.p.; lig...

Harvest: Light Verses (SIGNED COPY)

Kellehar, Cecil · 1984

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Strategy for Retirement, Norwich, 1984. First Edition, Card Covers. Near Fine/N/A. 9780950750019 Signed by Author. an attractively produced booklet of poems by this Norwich poet signed by him on the title page with the inscription - "Best wishes. Cecil Kellehar Nov. 1986"; 46 ...

A Time to Dance and other Poems

Lewis C. Day · 1937

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1937. New Edition, Red Cloth. Good/Good. gilt titles spine, gilt device front cover, D/J. is grey with red titles to spine & (with device) to front cover, a symphonic poem with three movements each with its own theme & f...

You're Not Alone: A Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Feelings of Isolation

Williams, Xandria · 1997

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Cedar/Mandarin Paperbacks, London, 1997. First U.K. Edition, Paperback. Very Good/N/A. 9780749322168 green & black titles spine; cover illust. by Yvonne Chambers; "loneliness is a problem which most of us face some of the time - and which some of us face, or feel we are facing...