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Discordant Village Voices: A Zambian Community-Based Wildlife Programme

Marks, Stuart A. · 2014

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Blomtontein, Pretoria, Unisa Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the SAVUSA Series, being a fine social history of a community-driven programme to protect and maintain wildlife. Sterling condition softcover copy, with un...

Gumuz and Highland Resettlers: Differing Strategies of Livelihood and Ethnic Reactions in Metekel, Northwestern Ethiopia

Abbute, Wolde-Selassie · 2004

$33.60 (€30.48 | £25.43 | ¥5,365)

Berlin, Germany, LIT Verlag, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliograp...

Terms of Trade and Terms of Trade: The History and Contexts of Pre-Colonial Market Production Around the Upper Zambezi and Kasai

von Oppen, Achim · 2013

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Munster and Hamburg, Germany, LIT Publishing, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line currently. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and cle...

African Folktales & Sculpture, the Bollingen Series, Volume XXXII

Radin, Paul, ed. · 1972

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Princeton, New Jersey, Pantheon Books for Bollingen Foundation, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine-looking, structurally sound copy of the original, true First Edition Thus state, the thirty-second volume in the influential Bollingen Series...

Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque

Ebers, G. [Georg]; translated from the original German by Clara Bell · 1878

$256.00 (€232.27 | £193.77 | ¥40,880)

London, England, Cassell and Company, Limited, . Reprint. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. An unusually sturdy, attractive set, complete in two volumes, of Egypt: descriptive, historical, and picturesque, with an Introduction and notes by S. Birch, Keeper of the De...

Black and White, from the Cape to the Congo

Flavin, Martin · 1950

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at the half-title, inscribed to John C. Greedy in 1950 upon release of the book. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned, minimal rubbing to ...

Teaching English Pronunciation to the Twi-Speaking Student

Schachter, Paul · 1962

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Legon, Ghana, Ghana University Press, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. The primer pro...

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish, with an Account of the Royal Libraries of Nineveh

Budge, E.A. · 1845

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Printed By Order of the Trustees, by Harrison & Sons, Ltd., . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Offprint by the leading Egyptologist of the day, E.A. Budge. Blue printed wrappers, stapled text, crimped corners, sunned and lightly soiled extremities, bo...

White Africans and Black

Singer, Caroline and Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge · 1949

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Cape Coast, Methodist Book Depot, 1949. Second Impression. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated Second Impression, published in 1949, and with 119 pp. Bound simply in white paper over boards, printed in brown lettering and with brown illustration to bottom right corner...

The Horse-Flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Ethiopian Region, Volume I: Haematopota and Hippocentrum; Volume II: Tabanus and Related Genera

Oldroyd, H. · 1952

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London, The Trustees of the British Museum, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Handsomely bound set, two of the original three volumes, in dark green buckram cloth, the first volume having been published in 1952 and the second, in 1954. Big, tall, Imperial o...

African Independence: The First Twenty-Five Years

Carter, Gwendolen M. and Patrick O'Meara · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

, Indiana University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean but for previous owner's ink-stamp and penned name, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, sunned at spin...

Between Man and Beast

Reel, Monte · 2013

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Anchor Books, 2013. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Near gift-quality but for publisher's remainder dot along bottom edge, else sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-w...

South African Tragedy; the Life and Times of Jan Hofmeyr

Paton, Alan; Abridgement by Dudley C. Lunt · 1965

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. From the publishe...

The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

Eldon, Kathy, ed. · 1997

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

New York, Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers; not ex-library, with ...

Early Kingdoms in Madagascar 1500-1700

Kent, Raymond K. · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic social history of precolonial Madagascar, focusing on the dynastic tribal kingdoms. The publisher's dust jacket has it that "Professor Kent began his detailed research into t...

Ballu, Albert · 1911

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Paris, Neurdein Freres, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series compiled by Albert Ballu, Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques de L'Algerie. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, modera...

The Great Boer War 1899 - 1901: Letters

Price, F.D. · 1987

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

York, Boer War Books, 1987. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy in facsimile reprint format, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neithe...

Black Writers in French

Kesteloot, Lilyan; Ellen Conroy Kennedy, translator · 1974

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Temple University Press, 1974. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. For a long time the definitive study of Negritude, published first in the same year in French, translated from the original French by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. Sturdy...

How I Crossed Africa: From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, Through Unknown Countries; Discovery of the Great Zambesi Affluents, &C

Pinto, Serpa; translated by Alfred Elwes · 1881

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Hartford, Connecticut, R.W. Bliss and Company, 1881. Abridged Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a still attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy of the one-volume abrid...

Livingston in Africa: His Explorations and Missionary Labors

Jewett, S.A.W. · 1869

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Cincinnati, Ohio, Cranston & Stowe, 1869. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound h...