Search Results: Africa from Glenbower Books

Cape, London 1955, 1st, hb, dw with some small tears, else vg/vg. First Edition.

Paris: Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1991, 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Portrait of the man behind 'Rectification' in Burkina Faso, 122pp plus pages of plates, translated from the French. Compaore, who became President in 1987, is portrayed as a man who believes that the defence of liberties, pluralism of opinion and democracy constitute the only safety rafts for Africa. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

UK: Privately Published, 1956. blue cloth sunned in spine area, otherwise clean sound copy. Inscribed on front endpaper "With best wishes from the author, 1964". Nicely-written memoir - I think it was modesty which caused the author to have only a few copies printed for his friends, rather than submit it for general publication.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bell, 1887. blue decorated cloth a little worn, front free endpaper torn out, ex-W. H. Smith Subscription Library copy, 291 pages, frontispiece, folding map at end, text block clean and generally fine. Madan, as a missionary on Zanzibar, worked with about a hundred Aftican boys who had been rescued from slave ships by British cruisers and brought to the island. Eventually he invited some of them to write down recollections of their homes and wanderings, and any stories they remembered having heard in their own lands and on their travels. Thirteen boys complied, and this book is the result. Madan translated the stories from Swahili. Scarce (only copy online at time of cataloguing).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Lambert and Co., 1856. undated but 1856 first edition, in half green morocco and marbled paper on boards, mildly scuffed with age, with frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, endpapers with some discoloration, a few brown spots on outer couple of leaves. Aristocratic bookplate of previous owner pasted to front pastedown (I do not recognise it - photo available on request).. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Boston: Propagation of the Faith Office, 1928. 511 pages, nice copy in tattered dustwrapper, many illustrations. Account of a journey across Africa from East to West by truck. Publisher has kindly included a folding bookmark map. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

UK: Elm Tree Books, 1980. generally fine copy, near as-new in price-clipped wrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Faber and Faber, London 1944, 1st, hb, no dw, 8vo, 247pp, folding maps, cloth sunned and dusty, else good.. Hardcover.

London: Methuen, 1900. first editiion, rebound in recent quarter calf, with gilt label, internally some light foxing to outer leaves, with a large folding map, neatly repaired without loss, and 16 plates, pages x, (1), 332, nice copy.. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

UK: Clemency Holt-Wilson, 1999. generally fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Longmans, London 1955, 1st, hb, no dw, four folding maps and many other illus., cover stained, some childish daubs to half-title and title page, else vg. First Edition. Hardcover.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. First Edition. Hardcover.