The Tunisian Question (Pamphlets on Arab Affairs--No. 5)
London: The Arab Office, (1947). First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, minor wear. 15 pp. On French policy in Tunisia and Arab reaction. Rare pamphlet.
Africa
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Manifesto of the Algerian People and report of the Democratic Union Party [Al-Bayan] conference held at Setif, September 25-27, 1948
Algeria: Liberation, (1948). Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, pages tanning, light wear and soil to covers. 24 pp, 2 plates. Reprints Abbas's stirring Manifesto of the Algerian People that he first published in 1943, with additional commentary and notes from the conference, as well as resolutions passed. RARE, with OCLC.....
Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, black cloth boards in dust jacket, review copy with review slip, book is in very good condition, jacket is in very good +, jacket shows mild edgewear, book has mild wear and foxing to the boards, previous owner's stamp with writing.....
Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends, binding tight, faint foxing to endpapers, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild toning and rubbing, front flap price clipped.
L'Histoire de la Méditerranée: La Vie Extraordinaire des Freres Barberousse, Corsaires et Rois D'Alger, inscribed by author
Paris: Les Editions de France, 1939. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1939, inscribed by author to theatrical director and actor Edmond Roze (d. 1943, Auschwitz). Very good in wraps, pages tanning, light wear to wraps, the rear cover having a bit of shelfwear to bottom.
African Theatre Review, Volume 1 Number 1, April 1985
Yaounde, Cameroon: Sopecam, 1985. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good. 130 pp. With various articles on African theater.
African Studies in America - The Extended Family: a Tribal Analysis of U. S. Africanists, Who They Are, Why To Fight Them (Africa Retort)
Cambridge: 1970. Wraps. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers. 92 pp, illustrated. Very lefty anti-imperialist publication.
Large photo album of the Swiss 'Schweizer Verein' "Alpina" in Pretoria 1891-1898, South Africa, Yemen, Mozambique
South Africa: Schweizerverein "Alpina" 1891-1898. Hardcover. Oblong folio (16.5 x 12 inches), half leather and cloth boards, fair condition with wear to binding, cloth tape on spine, photos very good although the mounting pages are a little soiled, sometimes show light chipping to edges and general light soil, wear, darkening;.....
War in the Desert, the Battle for Africa
New York: Henry Holt, C. 1941. First printing. Presumed advance review copy, as dust jacket is bound around book, no hard covers, the way advance copies were published back then. Light wear to binding, pages a little curled at bottom, very good overall. 300 pp, ill.
Somalia: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Modern Times
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1994. Hardcover. Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in color and b&w. Book has mild sun just to spine foot, handsome boards and tight binding, inscription to half-title (I can't read signature, does not look like one of the author's names, but going.....
Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered Education
Washington DC: Pan Afrikan World Institute, 1992. Paperback. Printed paper panels with plastic comb binding, octavo, 219pp., not illustrated. Book has mild toning and rubbing to panels, previous seller's small sticker to rear panel, comb binding tight, text has highlight marks in bibliography only! No DJ.
Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays: four plays of freedom (African Writers Series 117)
London: Heinemann, 1973. First English language edition. Paperback. 1973, Softcover, 184 pp. Very Good copy. Shelfwear and reading creases to the covers and spine; clean and unmarked contents.
Towards a Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles - Fifty Draft Entries - Report No. 3 of The Dictionary Committee DSAE. R3
Grahamstown, South Africa: Rhodes University, 1971. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and some soil to covers. 88 pp.
Ali Baba na Wezi Arobaini / Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in Swahili
Nairobi: Thomas Nelson, 1966. First Printing. Wraps. 7.5 x 5.5 inches, pictorial wraps, good copy with some stains and wear. 24 pp (unpaginated), illustrations in color, text in Swahili. Uncommon both in libraries and in the trade.
L'Identité des Populations Precoloniales de Bangui: Myths et Réalités
Bangui, R. C. A. 1991. Wraps. 11.25 x 8.25 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers. 39 (4) pp. Uncommon.
Lake Ngami; Or, Explorations and Discoveries, During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1856. Second edition. Hardcover. Second edition, 1856, rebound in quarter leather and marbled boards, octavo, 546pp., illustrated in b&w lithographs and engravings (missing lithograph no. 10 and fold out map). Book VG- with aforementioned litho and map missing, handsome leather spine and marbled boards showing wear.....
Emigration Dynamics of Developing Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa, Vol. 1
Williston, Vermont, U.S.A. Ashgate Pub Co, 1998. Hardcover. Volume 1. 365 pp. A near fine, hardback copy. No dust jacket. Minimal edgewear and rubbing of boards. Eraseable pencil notes on title page and chapter headers, otherwise the contents are clean with bright, unmarked text.
The Gold Coast in Transition
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Apter to his aunt and uncle! First edition, 1955, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 355pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of general shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ.....
Electric News in Colonial Algeria
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has hint of shelfwear.
Cross Rhythms 2
Bloomington, IN: African Folklore Publications, 1985. Paperback. Paperback, 1985, octavo, 176pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rubbing and mild edgewear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Les Pygmees Aka Et La Foret Centrafricaine, Ethnologie ecologique
Paris: SELAF, 1986. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers. 638 pp, illustrated. Uncommon. Although not stated, this is from the collection of Dan Simpson. He was the United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic (1990–92), Special Envoy to Somalia and the United.....
Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley: A Descriptive Handbook
London: Methuen & Co., 1932. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1932. Blue cloth hardcover in a dust jacket, illustrated, 874 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy in Good dust jacket, lacking the front flyleaf, owner's signature on the half-title page, a bit of straining to the front inner hinge, soiling.....
Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus-Hunting
London: Religious Tract Society, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 1925. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue cloth with gilt titles, dust jacket. 324pp. 32 illustrations, including 4 in color, by Constance N. Baikie. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket extremities toned, shallow chipping to dj corners and spine.....
Tunis Al-Thairah / Rebellious Tunis
Cairo: Lajnat Tah r r al-Maghrib al- Arab, 1954. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good with quite a bit of tanning to text and covers, some wear and darkening to wraps. 500 pp. Text in Arabic -- study of colonialism in Tunisia in the first half of the 20th century.....
6 1950s guidebooks to Algeria: Tipasa, Ville Antique de Mauretanie (1952); Djemila, Antique Cuicul (1953); Hippone la Royale, Antique Hippo Regius (1954); Tipasa 550 A. J. C. - 1854-1954 (1955); Tebessa, Antique Theveste (1952); Villes D'Or, Villes -- Musees d'Algerie
Algeria: Imp. officielle à Alger, 1952-1955. Paperback. 6 volumes, all in stiff wraps, all about very good with some cover soil, bumping to corners, each printed on good coated paper, 50-100 pp. illustrated, most with folding maps at rear. 9.25 inches tall (23.5 cm).