Many rare items in a variety of languages.
Bloemfontein: Nasionale Pers, 1939. Wraps. Wraps, good with some tanning to covers, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 15 pp. OCLC locates 2 holdings, both in South Africa.
Hardcover. 10.75 x 7.5 inches, cloth backed marbled boards, good copy, some wear to spine and corners, 257 pp, typed on rectos only. No idea who did this or when but it looks early to mid 20th century. French to Lingala.
Zaria: Gaskiya, (1959). Wraps. Wraps, good with light wear and soil, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, text clean and unmarked. 111 pp, text in Hausa. A heartbreaking novel about a boy whose parents are farmers and livestock owners who are affected by drought and economic downturns and.....
Zaria, N. Nigeria: Gaskiya, 1960. Wraps. Wraps, good with light ink stamping and library labels on front cover. 73 pp, text in Hausa, some lines in Arabic. Uncommon. OCLC locates 3 holdings, one in Germany, plus Northwestern and George Mason.
Rome: La Socalite de St. Pierre Claver, Rome, 1948. Wraps. 7 x 4.75 inches, wraps, very good, some tanning. 63 pp, illustrated. Appears to be Catholic prayers and verses in Luganda Bantu. RARE, no copies located by OCLC.
Zaria, N. Nigeria: NORLA Gaskiya, 1958. Wraps. Wraps, good, light curling and wear, pages tanning, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 24 pp, illustrated. Folk stories for middle schoolers. Text in Hausa. OCLC locates fewer than 10 copies of any edition.
Zaria, Northern Nigeria: Gaskiya Corp. 1959. Wraps. Later printing, first published in 1944. 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, text clean and free of marks. 47 pp. In Hausa. Reminiscences of a trip to England and back first published in 1944.
Zaria, N. Nigeria: Gaskiya, 1955. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with some wear and tanning, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 22 pp, text in Hausa. Alhaji Baba Ahmad was a Mauritanian cow trader who settled in Zaria, lured by the seriousness of its Islamic scholars; he settled.....
Zaria, Northern Nigeria: NORLA, North Regional Literature Agency, 1958. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, fair with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. Text has substantial annotations in ink to some of the pages, translating specific words into English. 23 pp, illustrated. Connected stories, designed to instruct people in comportment.....
Zaria, N. Nigeria: NORLA, 1958. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, good copy with library labels to front cover, light ink stamping. Text free of marks. 18 pp. A single long poem in Hausa. OCLC locates 8 holdings, 6 in US and 2 in Germany.
Lagos: Niger Challenge Press, Ca. 1960. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with light wear, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 139 pp, text in Hausa. Very uncommon, OCLC locates two copies: Ohio U., Houston.
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NP: Oxford University Press, 1957-1958. Wraps. No. 1 is a second printing from 1958, No. 2 a first printing from 1957. 8vo, wraps, good with some light soil, tanning and wear, library labels on front covers, light ink stamping. Illustrated in color. Simple stories and vocabulary.
Zaria: NORLA, Gaskiya, 1955. Wraps. First illustrated edition (published previously in 1934). Wraps, good copy with library labels to front cover, light ink stamping, light wear, text clean and unmarked. Novel by the future first Prime Minister of Nigeria, first written and published in 1934 in Bauchi, and then not.....
Zaria: NORLA, Gaskiya, 1955. Wraps. First illustrated edition (published previously in 1934). Wraps, good copy with library labels to front cover, light ink stamping, light wear & creasing, text clean and unmarked. Novel by the future first Prime Minister of Nigeria, first written and published in 1934 in Bauchi, and.....
Zaria: Gaskiya, 1961. Wraps. Popular book of connected stories about family life in a small village. Wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, light wear and tanning. 82 pp, illustrated, text in Hausa.
Jos, Nigeria: Publications Department, Sudan Interior Mission, 1962. 2nd Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, text clean and unmarked, minor toning and tanning. 52 pp, text in Hausa. Short narratives or lessons drawn from the New Testament to fight against Satan, according.....
Zaria, Northern Nigeria: Gaskiya, 1959-1960. Wraps. 2 volumes, 8vo, wraps, good with light wear, tanning, library labels on front covers, light ink stamping, texts clean and unmarked. 87 & 84 pp, text in Hausa. On Islamic religious instruction.
Franceville, Gabon: Vicariat Apostolique du Gabon, 1923. First Printing. Wraps. 7 X 5 inches, cloth backed wraps, good to very good, some mottling, spottiness and soil to covers, pages tanning. 253 pp, illustrated. Inscribed by the author in Franceville in 1928. Very rare, OCLC locates no copies of this in.....
Maseru, Lesotho: Mazenrod Institute, 1943. Wraps. Small 8vo, wraps, good with library marks: labels on front cover, ink stamp on cover, title page, rear cover (outside and inside), text otherwise free of marks, light wear, tanning. 112 pp, text in Sesotho.
Morija, Lesotho: Sesuto Book Depot, 1941. Wraps. 8vo, flexible cloth covers, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping including to edges of text block, minor pencil notations to title page, text otherwise clean. 221 pp. RARE with OCLC locating only the Old Testament edited by F. Coillard.....
Zaria, N. Niger: Gaskiya, 1960. Wraps. Wraps, good copy with light wear and cover loss, tanning, library labels on front cover, light ink stamping. 14 pp, illustrated, text in Hausa. Business advice. RARE, OCLC locates a total of 3 holdings of any edition.
Bo, Sierra Leone: Protectorate Literature Bureau, 1951. Wraps. Wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, staples rusting. 20 pp, in Mende. OCLC locates a single holding, in Germany.
Yaoundé, Cameroon: St. Paul; Archidiocese de Yaoundé, Ca. 1940s. Wraps. 12mo, 6.5 x 4.5 inches, wraps, good with library labels on front cover, light ink stamping, bookplate, blindstamp on title page, contents free of marks, general tanning. 32 pp, text in Ewondo / Kolo. RARE with OCLC unable to locate.....
Maseru, Lesotho: Mazenrod Institute, C. 1941. Wraps. Small 8vo, 7.25 x 4.75 inches, wraps, good with library marks: labels on cover, ink stamps to text block edges, title page, rear pastedown, 160 pp, text in Sesotho language.
Maseru, Lesotho: Mazenrod Institute, (1938). Hardcover. in publisher's stiff card boards, good with library marks: labels on cover, ink stamps to text block edges, title page, rear pastedown, 332 (1) pp, text in Sesotho language. RARE, OCLC cannot locate any holdings of this edition.