Marion Pitman

Return to Laughter

ELENORE SMITH BOWEN · 1956

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Readers Union / Victor Gollancz. 1956. Hardcover. Book, Green boards; very slight nick top edge front board. Fiction by an anthropologist. Very Good/No Jacket.

Gold and a Girl

JAMES EDWIN BAUM · 1929

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, Thomas Nelson. 1929, First Edition ?. Hardcover. Book, Red boards, illustrated endpapers, no jacket but else very good. By the author of Spears in the Sun. Set in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Scarce. Very Good/No Jacket.

The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (Heritage series, 19th century)

F PRETORIUS · 1985

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cape Town, Don Nelson. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0909238987) Hardcover. Book, Large format, 96 pages, illustrated. Near Fine/Very Good.

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures

LIEUT.-COL. J. H. PATTERSON · 1928

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Macmillan. 1928, New Edition. Hardcover. Book, Caravan Library edition. Dark red cloth, spine faded, name and address on endpapers. Illustrated. Author went to Mombasa in 1898 to build the Uganda railway. This involved shooting a number of lions and at least one rhino,...

The Stormy Dawn

MARK FRESHFIELD · 1947

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Faber & Faber. 1947, Second Impression. Hardcover. Book, First novel, set in West Africa and London. Dustwrapper rather tanned, torn at top edge. Very Good/Good.

A Far Place

BLAIR FULLER · 1957

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Secker & Warburg. 1957, First UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, Some foxing to endpapers, dustwrapper price clipped, worn at edges, small marks on back. Novel set in colonial West Africa. Very Good/Good.

Crop Improvement in East Africa

C. L. A. LEAKEY, EDITOR · 1970

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Farnham Royal, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. 1970, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Name on flyleaf, few marks on dustwrapper. Technical Communication 19 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics. Very Good/Very Good.

The World of Mestre Tamoda

UANHENGA XITU · 1988

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York & London, Readers International. 1988, First English Language Edition. (ISBN: 0930523423) Hardcover. Book, Near Fine/Near Fine.

Freedom Ceremony

ROLAND STARKE · 1967

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Triton Books. 1967, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, End of spine bruised; unclipped dustwrapper rather worn and marked, slightly frayed at edges. "Set in the arid, bigoted world of politics in Southern Africa.". Very Good/Good.

The Path of Thunder

PETER ABRAHAMS · 1948

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dark blue cloth, silver titles. Few marks on back board. Inter-racial love story in South Africa. Very Good/No Jacket.

Tales of Unrest

JOSEPH CONRAD · 1922

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson. 1922, New Edition. Hardcover. Book, Spine dull and worn, corners bruised, endpapers brown, text good. Blue cloth, 297 pages. Nash's Famous Fiction Library. The Idiots, The Lagoon, The Return, An Outpost of Progress, Karain: a memory. Good/No Ja...

Mackenzie's Grave

OWEN CHADWICK · 1959

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1959, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Cloth bit worn, endpapers foxed, name on flyleaf, postcard taped to title page but has now come off, captioned Likoma Cathedral; slight remains of paper tape here and there on boards. Black cloth, portrait front...

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

NELSON MANDELA · 1996

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Little, Brown. 1996, First UK Abridged Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Illustrated Photographs. Book, Dustwrapper frayed and torn. Large hardback illustrated with photos. heavy, may require extra shipping to some locations. 9780316880206. Very Good/Fair.

Donald Fraser of Livingstonia

AGNES R. FRASER · 1934

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1934, Second Impression. Hardcover. Book, Binding faded, spine split and broken; hinges weak, some foxing edges and ends. Contents good. Portrait frontispiece and two other plates. LIfe of a Scottish missionary to Nyasaland (Malawi), by his wife. Fa...

Children of Yesterday

DAVID BEE · 1961

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Geoffrey Bles. 1961, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dustwrapper has some marks on the back; slight tanning to rear endpaper. Black boards, gilt titles. South African novel, the story of four men's lives, one Zulu, one Coloured, two white. Jacket design Harry Toothill....

The Changing Map of Africa

ROBERT D. HODGSON AND ELVYN A. STONEMAN · 1963

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand. 1963, Edition not Stated. Soft cover. Book, Spine faded, cover corners a little creased, else very good. No edition stated, probably first paperback. Good/No Jacket.

Divide & Rule : South Africa's Bantustans

BARBARA ROGERS · 1976

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London, International Defence & Aid Fund. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0904759113) Soft cover. Ill.: Photographs. Book, Some wear to cover edges and spine. "South Africa hopes to gain international acceptance of separate development through the policy of 'Bantu Homelands'. A Br...

Modern Knowledge and Old Beliefs ( an Appeal for Candour )

VIVIAN PHELIPS · 1934

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Watts & Co. 1934, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Spine ends worn, corners bit curled. A sequel to "The Churches and Modern Thought". Rationalist argument. Quote on back from article in the Cape Times about the book by the splendidly name Rev. Ramsden Balmforth. Good.

Prohibited Immigrant

JOHN STONEHOUSE · 1960

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, The Bodley Head. 1960, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dustwrapper torn and stained; some damage to endpapers; some spine slant; page edges bit grubby; water staining to some margins. Illustrations and map. Account of the author's visits to various African countries an...

Counter-Coup

MICHAEL BRADFORD [ MICHAEL ALLEN ] · 1980

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Frederick Muller. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0584310528) Hardcover. Book, Couple of small marks to endpapers and top edge, few small dents and creases to dustwrapper. Adventure thriller set in the heart of Africa. Very Good/Good.