Many rare items in a variety of languages.
Bo, Sierra Leone: Protectorate Literature Bureau, 1955. First Printing. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page. 24 pp. OCLC locates 4 holdings: Yale, Harvard, Germany, Leiden.
Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel, 1954. Wraps. Probable first edition. Limp cloth wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, pages tanning. Uncommon book of stories about animals, some derived from African folklore, in Tswana. 95 pp. OCLC locates 10 copies, 8 in South Africa, 1 at NYPL.....
Maseru, Lesotho: Mazenod Institute, 1938. Wraps. 6 x 4 inches, wraps, good with library marks: labels on front cover, light ink stamping, pencil notations to title page, text otherwise clean. 95 pp. Sesotho language book on Christian martyrs in Uganda.
Morija, Lesotho: Sesuto Book Depot, 1924. First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, publisher's cloth, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping and pencil notations, text clean and unmarked. 77 pp. OCLC locates two holdings, both in South Africa.
Morija, Lesotho: Sesuto Book Depot, 1930. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping and pencil notations, text clean and unmarked, light wear and tanning to wraps and text. 12 pp, text in Sesotho. OCLC locates a single holding in South Africa.
Morija, Lesotho: Morija Sesuto Book Depot, 1943. Wraps. Later printing of a novel first published in 1910. 12mo, 4.75 x 4 inches, wraps, good with library marks: labels on front cover, ink stamps, erasable pencil notations to title page, text otherwise clean, but tanned. Uncommon novel in the Sesotho language.....
Bloemfontein: Nasionale Pers, 1940. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, some tanning and discoloration to covers, contents unmarked. OCLC locates 8 holdings of the first edition: LOC, Michigan State, Wisconsin, and five in South Africa. M. M. Sehlodimela was a South African.....
Morija, Lesotho: Morija Sesuto Book Depot, 1941. Hardcover. Reprint of 1928 original. 12mo, publisher's green cloth, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page, text otherwise clean and unmarked. 103 pp.
Morija, Lesotho: Sesuto Book Depot, 1929. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page, text otherwise clean. 52 pp. The author seems to believe that physical illnesses are the result of spiritual deficiencies and stresses Christianity and.....
Bloemfontein, SA: Nasionale Pers, 1942. First Printing. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good copy with some edgewear, quite tanned, library labels on front cover, ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page, text clean. 35 pp. Poetry in Sesotho. OCLC locates three holdings, two in South Africa plus Wisconsin.
Bo, Sierra Leone: Protectorate Literature Bureau, 1953. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page, pages tanning. 15 pp, illustrated. Text in Mende. OCLC locates a single holding, Indiana University.
Morija, Lesotho: Morija Printing Works, (1930?). Wraps. Stiff cloth wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 52 pp, text in Tswana. RARE, OCLC locates a total of 13 copies, 3 in the US (Yale, LOC, Wisconsin), 1 in Germany, the rest in South Africa.
Bo, Sierra Leone: Protectorate Literature Bureau, 1957. Second Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page. 36 pp. RARE, OCLC locates a single copy of a 1969 edition of this. In 1875, the famous Sierra Leone warlord.....
Morogoro: Bigwa, 1952. Second Edition. Wraps. 12mo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, pages tanning, crease to cover corner. OCLC locates 2 copies, one at Duquesne, the other in the Netherlands. 59 pp, illustrated with woodcuts.
Zaria, N. Nigeria: Gaskiya; NORLA, 1958. First Printing. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with light general soil and wear to covers, pages tanning, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, text clean. 58 pp, in Hausa. In 1950, Sipikin was a founding member of Northern Element Progressive Union (NEPU).....
Bo, Sierra Leone: Protectorate Literature Bureau, 1948. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor pencil notations to title page, pages tanning. 12 pp. OCLC locates a single copy, at Yale.
Mariannhill: 1931. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, good with light warping, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 71 pp, text in Zulu. OCLC locates a single holding, in South Africa.
Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho): Morija Printing Works, 1927. Wraps. Small 8vo, flexible cloth wraps, good with library labels to front cover, light ink stamping and pencil notations to title page, text free of marks, light wear and tanning. In Sesotho. 47 pp. RARE, OCLC locates three holdings, all in South Africa.....
Zaria, N. Nigeria: Gaskiya, 1955. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, good copy with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor wear and toning. 51 pp, illustrated. Written in the early 1930s but not published till 1955, an English version entitled "African Nights' Entertainment" by Cyprian Ekwensi was published some.....
Morija, Lesotho: Sesuto Book Depot, (1956?). Wraps. Probable first printing, but undated; introduction dated 1953. Wraps, fair to good copy, some creasing and soil, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping and pencil notations, text clean and unmarked. 76 pp, text in Sesotho. OCLC only locates later editions from.....
Morija, Lesotho: Morija Sesuto Book Depot, 1951. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good copy with library marks: labels on front cover, light ink stamps, minor pencil notations to title page, text clean. 31 pp, in Sesotho, some in verse.
Zaria: Gaskiya, 1956. Wraps. Wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, minor wear and tanning. 28 pp, illustrated, text in Hausa. Drama written in 1949 (not sure if this is its first publication or not) about keeping a clean house. Uncommon.
Zaria, Northern Nigeria: Gaskiya Corporation, (1955). Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels to front cover, light ink stamping and pencil notations, text free of marks. 18 pp. According to our research, this is a poem by Usman Dan Fodio (1754-1817), an important teacher, scholar and revolutionary, the founder.....
Zaria, Northern Nigeria: Gaskiya Corporation, (1955). Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels to front cover, light ink stamping and pencil notations, text free of marks. 18 pp. According to our research, this is a poem by Usman Dan Fodio (1754-1817), an important teacher, scholar and revolutionary, the founder.....
Zaria, N. Nigeria: Gaskiya, 1959. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, text clean and unmarked. 24 pp, text in Hausa. Studies and stories showing the benefit of education in comportment and conduct.