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New York: Atheneum, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Binding of clean and unmarked blue cloth with author name blind-stamped on front, sharp and bright gilt titles on spine. Slight rubbing to corners and spine head/tail. Interior is Fine, lightly and evenly toned. Clean gold glossy jacket with edgewear, small closed tear on upper edge near corner, spine head chipped, not clipped. A book about the African people, where they are going, what their future is, relating agriculture, politics, and education to one another and to the fundamental issue of cultural values. 221 pages with index. 8.6 x 5.5 inches. Atheneum, NY 1966.

New York and London: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Fine binding of gold half cloth with red titles, black paper-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked, tight & solid volume. Inscription from former owner to friends on endpaper, otherwise as new. Clean, bright, unclipped jacket. Blaine Harden, Washington Post bureau chief, was in the sub-Sahara for four years. He states that the news from the continent that seems doomed by overpopulation, famine, and political instability is incomplete and misleading. It is a land swept up in change, lurching between an unworkable Western present and a collapsing African past. But his focusing on individuals has led him to uncover an Africa that endures beyond the sum of its statistics. A close look at one of the world's most fascinating and most troubled regions. 333 pages with Notes,… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster, 1986. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Revised and updated edition with an expanded chapter on South Africa . An exploration and analysis of the political, economic, and social realities of Africa of the 1980s. Clean, tight, solid, unmarked book with light wear to cover edges and spine hinge. 543 pages. 9 x 6 inches. 1986, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA

London: Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Hamlyn Publishing Group, London, 1969 First Edition. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. Internals in Fine Condition. Pages glossy, heavy, good quality. Illustrated--full color, bright, colorful, detailed African masks, descriptions with historical and cultural significance. Gray cloth with sharp and bright gilt title to spine; cloth has some discoloration along edges. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. 158 pages. 7.5" x 5.25:. 1969, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London.

New York & London: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. A comprehensive book summarizing and inter-relating this research with pertinent research from earlier periods; an inter-disciplinary study of all aspects of African life; agriculture, anthropology, biology, demography, history, geography, medicine, etc. Bound in green cloth, gilt titled; clean with one small, faint, whitish smudge on front; trace wear to lower corner, lower edge of spine tail is torn through cloth three-quarters of an inch up rear spine edge. Sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Former owner name on endpaper. Page block top and bottom edge have a few small pale spots. Internals are very clean, free from any markings, no creases, pages toned. Jacket is clean, not clipped, white and black with green and white title, corner and edgewear; on the lower rear spine edge there… Read More

U.S.A: Vintage/Random House, 1987. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Gently used book that is clean and unmarked with light wear to corners, cover flares up slightly, tight and square binding. Pages are toned, clean, no markings of any kind. After traveling in Africa for 4 years writing for the Los Angeles Times, and traveling through almost every country south of the Sahara, talking to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors, David Lamb presents this combination of adventure and analysis. It is part travelogue and part contemporary history, providing a portrait of a country seemingly willing to destroy itself, and of a courageous and long-suffering people. 371 pages, indexed. 5.2 x 8 inches. 1987, Vintage/Random House, USA

New York, New York, USA: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1901. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5. Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1901. Type: Ex-Library Second Edition of this scarce book in Good Condition, no jacket. Author was a Special War Correspondent to the "Daily Mail" during the South African War, late 19th, early 20th century. These are his records of that war. The material was never before published, except some chapters appeared originally in the "Daily Mail" as letters from the front; these have been recast and extended for this volume. "When Field-Marshall Lord Roberts came out to South Africa he came to take command in what had every outward aspect of a losing game." (First sentence of the book).Thus starts this analysis of the war in South Africa. The book is bound in clean and unmarked tan cloth with brown lettering on spine. No edgewear, rounded corners. Tight and solid. All edges speckled. Endpapers appear to be new library inserted , with pocket and sticker;… Read More

Minneapolis, MN, USA: Milkweed Editions, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. R. W. Scholes. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Foreword by Rosellen Brown. Designed and illustrated by R. W. Scholes. Clean and unmarked pictorial wrappers with light wear to front corners and fore edge of front cover, Soundly bound, square. Internals quite clean and free from any markings of creasing. Debut book by Eileen Drew, a Californian who was born in Morocco to a Foreign Service family and has lived in several African countries. Her stories draw power from her careful observations and the intelligence of her insights about a country she loves. She describes the savannahs, a pigmy village, the jungles beautifully and lyrically. She understands the complexities of two vastly different cultures and why there is so much enmity between them. There are nine short stories, that read like a novel, painting a distinctive portrait of Africa. 155 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Milkweed… Read More

New York: Public Affairs, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition, Mylar jacket cover. Except for very minimal lib marks, book and jacket are as new. Bright and clean, free from any other markings, tight, solid and square. Martin Meredith traces the history of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the country's quest for self-determination in its transition from authoritarian rule to participatory democracy. 380 pages with Afterword and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Public Affairs, New York, 1999.

New York: Public Affairs Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Public Affairs, First Edition, 2020. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket with archival cover in Good Condition. Except for minimal library marks, in Near Fine Condition. The Congo, a country that since 1996 has been wracked by a war in which millions have died--it has become Africa's Great War. A compelling report of how Congo became a failed state that, rocked by violence arising from the aftermath of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. A war not given much attention by news outlets in America. 380 pp with Acknowledgments, Acronyms, Maps, Notes, and Index. 8 vo. 2011, Public Affairs. ISBN1586489291 9781586489298

New York: William Morrow and Co, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. William Morrow and Co., 1975. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Includes maps, some quite unique illustrations, and bibliography. Binding of black half cloth gilt tilted, black paper-wrapped boards; very clean and unmarked; lower corner of front board has slight indented diagonal crease line. Tight, solid, sewn binding. Interior is quite clean and free from any markings. Jacket clean, unmarked with slight edgewear, original price unclipped but has a white sticker over it. The story of three black kingdoms, the old, sixteenth-century kingdom of Congo, Dahomey, and Lesotho (Basutoland). Each of the three is shown at a critical point in its history, the period when they met white pressure head on. How they reacted to this pressure determined whether or not they survived. Only the last of the three now survive. 194 pages with Source Books… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used book, faint wear to cover edges, otherwise fine. 188 pages. Bibliography. Index. 8.25" x 5.5". 2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.

U.S.A: PublicAffairs, 2008. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book that is clean and unmarked with light wear to cover edges; solid and tight glued binding. Pages clean, no markings, no creases. A harrowing first-hand account of the genocide in Darfur, witnessed by Brian Steidle, former United States Marine, when he served in the region for six months as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. He was fired upon, taken hostage, and witnessed villages destroyed and people killed. Several years later, hundreds of thousands of Darfurians have perished and over 2.5 million people displaced. This unforgettable story depicts the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on destroying its black African citizens. It chronicles the fact of international inaction in response to blatant genocide and urges all to take action--of some kind. 237 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 2008, PublicAffairs, USA

New York: Walker and Company, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover Ex-library Book and Jacket in Good Condition. xiv,175 pages. Includes, notes, map, benchmarks in the Congo Story. Black cloth with yellow spine titles, yellow and black dust-jacket, library stamps, pocket, edges rubbed, sewn binding tight and solid. A few pages in the beginning of the book has text underlined, bracketed otherwise quite clean pages lightly toned. New mylar jacket cover replaces library cover. A selection of essays on some key aspects of the history of the Congo since it emerged into independence in 1960. There are profiles in-depth of Patrice Lumumba, Moise Tshombe, and of the military regime of General Joseph Mobubu. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall 1967, Walker and Company, New York.

Potomac Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Potomac Books, First Edition, 2020. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket with archival cover in Good Condition. Except for minimal library marks, (no pocket, cards, just a label on front and a discard stamp on ffep) in Fine Condition. An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book. Forward by Pauline H. Baker. Former ambassador Joyce E. Leader was DCM in Kigali from 1991 until the genocide erupted in 1994 and is a recognized authority on the failed diplomatic efforts to avert the tragedy. 383 pp. with Forward, Preface, Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 8 vo. 2002, Potomac Books. ISBN 1640122451 9781640122451

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Remainder A man haunted by depression and demons sets out on safari in Africa in search of himself, across Kenya and Rwanda, and begins a lifelong love affair with Africa. First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Jacket. Book has a remainder mark, else Fine. Bound in gold half-cloth gilt titled with green boards, very clean and unmarked, tight, solid and square. Internals are As New. Fine dust jacket is forest green with white lettering, not price-clipped, cover painting by Henri Rousseau. Latham's lifelong love affair with the African reflections of Hemingway, Isak Dinesen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Joseph Conrad set Mr. Latham on his course, but it was the mystic, wild, and sweltering continent itself that lured and ultimately captured him. 334 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991.

New York: Viking/Penguin Group, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. As New with an As New Dust Jacket. The extraordinary story of how a young woman's life- the author's - ideas, and prejudices, everything she once believed, were utterly transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy. The journey of a terrified, young secretary in her twenties who rose in her job to become one of President Mandela's most loyal and devoted associates. She here pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him, a teacher who taught her the most valuable lessons of her life. This is a book about love and second chances, and honors the lasting and inspiring gifts of one of the great men of our times. 368 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2014, Viking/Pernguin Group, New York.

USA: Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Now a Major Motion Picture. A haunting memoir vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen. A memorable and moving narrative of the vast spaces and rugged beauty of Kenya's interior and a memorial to the ones she loved and lost in Kenya. Paperback cover is bright, very clean with trace wear to extremities, no creases; tight glued binding; text block edges clean and white. Four illustrations section, two in full colour. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. 315 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2000, Penguin Books, New York, New York, USA

USA: Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A haunting memoir vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen. A memorable and moving narrative of the vast spaces and rugged beauty of Kenya's interior and a memorial to the ones she loved and lost in Kenya. Paperback cover is bright in oranges, navy and black, very clean with slight edgewear, no creases; tight glued binding; text block edges clean and white. Four illustrations section, two in full colour. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. 315 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Penguin Books, New York, 1992.

Simon & Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in As New Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Black cloth spine, yellow boards, gilt lettering to spine. Completely clean and unmarked; tight, solid, square with sharp corners. Internals as new. Unclipped glossy, bright jacket. Debut book of Richard Stengal, a writer and reporter who take us beneath the deceptively calm surface of a small South African town--Brits, South Africa, a small community located amidst the checkerboard farms in western Transvaal. He tells the story of the town over the course of one day, through the lives of three men, one white, one black, one Indian. He uses three acts', as in a theatre, of morning, afternoon, and evening, moving from character to character, whose lives never meet. He provides a most intimate portrait of South Africa. 202 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1990. Simon & Schuster, New York