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A Fighter & A Woman
by Hyde, Emmanuel Ayikwe
npl: Drinking Gourd Press, 2005. Paperback. 612p., wraps, 5.25x8 inches, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Novel about the romance between a white man and an African woman. Hyde was born and raised in Ghana and lived in Baltimore at the time of publication.
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£14.57
Dosia: married to a jealous man
by Minta, Solomon A
Baltimore: Publish America, 2004. 174p., very good paperback. Novel by a Ghanaian immigrant who graduated from Howard University.
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£16.19
The Oath of Fontomfrom and Other Poems
by Okai, John
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Hardcover. 158p., remainder mark on bottom edge, some lean to spine otherwise a very good first edition in boards and unclipped, lightly rubbed and sunned dust jacket. Ghana-born poet's first book. He earned an MA in literature at the Gorky Literary Inst. in Moscow.
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£12.14
Guinea-Worm amongst a Detachment of 2nd West Indian Regiment on the West Coast of Africa
by Horton, James Africanus Beale
[London: HMSO, 1870. Paperback. Very Good. This is a single leaf of text (pp. 335-336) extracted from the "Army Medical Department Report for the Year 1868" and pressure bound in a modern blue wrapper with a photocopy of a portion of the original title-page mounted on the front. This two page report by Horton on Guinea-Worm was Appendix XVIII to the 1868 report. Horton items are quite scarce.
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£80.95
Ten Years' Wanderings among the Ethiopians; With Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Civilised and Uncivilised Tribes, from Senegal to Gaboon
by Hutchinson, Thomas J
London: Frank Cass, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 320p. Red cloth. 22cm. Backstrip slightly faded. No Jacket. Reprint of the London edition of 1861. Travel in and along the coast of West Africa.
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£36.43
The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa
by Dudgeon, Gerald C
London: John Murray, 1911. Hardcover. Good. photos, maps (including frontis), index, x, 170p. Red cloth. 22cm. Some cover soil and darkening. Corner frayed. Contents sound. No Jacket.
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£60.71
Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa
by Stanley, Henry M
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. frontis, illustrations, 2 folding maps, xiv, 510p. plus 2p. publisher's advertisements. Green cloth. 24cm. Ends of backstrip internally reinforced. Extremities rubbed. Covers dulled. Front hinge visibly reglued. Folding map of Coomassie Expedition split at last fold and rather worn. A couple of signatures pulled. Account of battles in Ghana (against the Ashanti) and in Ethiopia. We've also had this American edition in...
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£121.42
Broken Myths: News Commentaries from Radio Ghana (March, 1966)
by Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Accra: Ministry of Information, 1966. Paperback. Good. photos, 32p. Softcover in original green wrapper. 23cm. Former owner's name stamp on upper right corner of front cover. Scuffed. Modest staining and wear along top edge.
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£68.81
Bibliography of Ghana, 1957-1960
by Pitcher, G. M
Kumasi: Library, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 1962. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 111p. Original maroon cloth. 22cm. Covers lightly warped. Former owner's name. No jacket.
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£20.24
![[Five Items on Agriculture published by the Govt. of Gold Coast ]; (1) Dept of Agriculture. The Plant Pests and Diseases Ordinance, 1937. Broadsheet. 26cm.; (2) Dept. of Agriculture. Storage of Cocoa. A Word of Warning and Advice. Broadside. 21cm.; (3) Dept. of Agriculture. Harvesting and Storage of Cocoa. Broadside. 34cm. Later fold. Circular No. 18/1937; (4) The Swollen-Shoot Disease of Cocoa. 8p. No separate wrapper. Reprint of speech by Colonial Secretary in the Legislative Council. Dated August, 1937; and (5) Inspection of Cocoa. Extract from the Report by Mr. F. A. Stockdale ... on His Visit to Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, October, 1935-February, 1936. 19p. Green wrapper. 34cm](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/765/034/1107034765.0.b.jpg)
[Five Items on Agriculture published by the Govt. of Gold Coast ]; (1) Dept of Agriculture. The Plant Pests and Diseases Ordinance, 1937. Broadsheet. 26cm.; (2) Dept. of Agriculture. Storage of Cocoa. A Word of Warning and Advice. Broadside. 21cm.; (3) Dept. of Agriculture. Harvesting and Storage of Cocoa. Broadside. 34cm. Later fold. Circular No. 18/1937; (4) The Swollen-Shoot Disease of Cocoa. 8p. No separate wrapper. Reprint of speech by Colonial Secretary in the Legislative Council. Dated August, 1937; and (5) Inspection of Cocoa. Extract from the Report by Mr. F. A. Stockdale ... on His Visit to Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, October, 1935-February, 1936. 19p. Green wrapper. 34cm
by Gold Coast
Paperback. Good. Condition varies but all are sound. Rust stains from staples or proximity to staples on adjacent items.
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£48.57
Agriculture and Land Use in Ghana
by Wills, J. Brian, editor
London: Published for the Ghana Ministry of Food and Agriculture by Oxford University Press, 1962. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. B0000CL9YG. charts, tables, photos, maps (including 4 folding in pocket), index, xviii, 503, [1]p. Original cloth. dj. 28cm. Former owner's name.
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£40.48
Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa
by Bowdich, Thomas Edward
London: John Murray, 1819. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 3 maps (1 folding and 1 which is called an "Ichnographical" Sketch), folding facsimile, 6 (of 7) color plates, 1 of which is folding, 5 pages of music (on 3 leaves), viii, [2], 512p. Rebound in new quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in dark brown leather). 28cm. Relatively small stains here and there including corners or edges of some plates and maps. Lacks half-title and the color plate titled "A Captain in his War-Dress." Large folding color...
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£769.02
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S.
by Burton, Richard Francis, 1821-1890
New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970. Hardcover. Fine. 2 vols. frontises (folding map in Vol. 2), viii, 303, 295p. Original red cloth. 22cm. No Jackets. A rather uncommon reprint of the 1863 edition.
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£101.19
They Went to Bush
by Collins, W. B
London: Macgibbon & Kee. 1961. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 231 pages. The author recounts how the forest in Ghana was mapped, demarcated and legally secured and creates a pen picture of the lives of the Forest Officers. A picture of one aspect of colonial life in Ghana. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels....
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£9.52
Report from the Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa; Together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index
by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa
[London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 1842. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. 4 folding maps (3 in Part I and one in Part II, xxvi, 744, 637p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Covers intact but rather heavily scuffed and rubbed. Bookplates removed on both front pastedowns. Contents generally sound and clean although the large folding map of the coast of West Africa in Part (Volume) II is quite fragile because it has split apart along many of the original folds and...
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£1,011.88
Ashanti Gold: The African Legacy of the World's Most Precious Metal
by Ayensu, Professor Edward S
Accra, Ghana: Ashanti Goldfields. 1997. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Some light fingermarks to the foil endpapers and title page. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to reverse of front free endpaper. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 200 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£26.46
A History of the Gold Coast of West Africa
by Ellis, Alfred Burdon
London: Chapman and Hall, 1893. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. map (as frontis), xi, 400p. Original red cloth. 23cm. Covers heavily soiled. Ends of backstrip chipped. First leaf of leaf wrinkled and torn in bottom margin. No Jacket. A serviceable copy of the scarce first edition which is still in its original binding.
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£161.90
A Bibliography of the Gold Coast
by Cardinall, A. W
Accra: Printed by the Government Printer, 1931. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. xix, [5], 393p. Original cloth. 25cm. Mostly light foxing. "From the Library of Vernon McKay" stamped in green on endpaper. Short tear at head of front joint. No jacket (probably as issued). "Issued as a companion volume to the Census Report of 1931" [statement on title-page].
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£40.48
Hurricane of Dust
by Djoleto, Amu
London: Longman Group, 1987. Paperback. 154p., very good first trade paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Longman African Writers series.
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£8.10
Ashantee and the Gold Coast: Being a Sketch of History, Social State and Superstitions of the Inhabitants of Those Countries: With a Notice of the State and Prospects of Christianity Among Them
by Beecham, John
London: John Mason, 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. folding map, xix, 376p. Rebound in old mid-19th century 1/2 leather (marbled boards with dark leather backstrip and corners). 18cm. Joints scuffed. Extremities frayed and rather worn. Paper remnants of an old bookplate or label on endpaper. A few short tears. Contents sound and clean. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on endpaper (over remnants of an earlier bookplate or label).
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£161.90
Road to Ghana: a delightful mix of escape, travel & political actuality by one of the accused in the South African Treason Trials
by Hutchinson, Alfred
London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. 190p., very good hardcover with bookplate of Anne M. Virgil; edgeworn dj with minor chipping.
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£9.71
The Pages of Time: a collection of poems
by Kessey, K. O
Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 1991. Pamphlet. 52p., wraps, on corner bumped, previous owner's gift inscription on half-title page, else very good condition.
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£12.14
The catechist
by Abruquah, J. W., with a foreword by Elspeth Huxley
London: Allen and Unwin, 1965. Hardcover. 202p., preface, foreword, errata page tipped-in, very good first edition in cloth boards and lightly-worn unclipped dj. Semi-biographical debut novel by the author from Ghana; "deals with the life of that unusual creation of the European missionaries in Africa --the Catechist-- a Minister's helper who cannot baptize or marry, but who may bury villagers;" such was Abruquah's father.
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£24.28
The Return: An Epic Action-Adventure Thriller!
by Oddoye, David Paul
Huntington, WV: self-published by the author with University Editions, 1999. Paperback. 228p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps worn, remainder mark on bottom edge, small stain on top edge of first few pages. Ghanaian-born Bay Area author.
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£9.71
Croissance demographique et evolution socio-economique en Afrique de l'Ouest: recueil d'articles inedits
by Caldwell, John Charles, publishing director
New York: The Population Council, 1973. Paperback. Very Good. index, xiv,1028p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. French text. Includes sections on Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia and Zaire (Congo) in addition to most of the former French colonies in West and Central Africa.
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£52.62
