PETER ABRAHAMS

The Path of Thunder

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dark blue cloth, silver titles. Few marks on back board. Inter-racial love story in South Africa. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005827

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Novel Fiction South Africa Black White Romance Apartheid Vintage Fiction

MICHAEL BRADFORD [ MICHAEL ALLEN ]

Counter-Coup

London, Frederick Muller. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0584310528) Hardcover. Book, Couple of small marks to endpapers and top edge, few small dents and creases to dustwrapper. Adventure thriller set in the heart of Africa. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005035

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: 0584310528 Fiction Novel Thriller Africa Modern Fiction

VARIOUS AUTHORS

Journal of the West African Science Association Vol. 6 No. 1

London, Pub. For West African Science Association By Charles Knight. 1960, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1960. Paper covers; cover creased, bit faded; edge of front cover stained, small tear; interior OK. Analysis of plant growth; Nigerian dragonflies; black-flies of Nigeria & southern Cameroons; Burial Mound near Tamale, Ghana; Damage to Maize by Calandra Oryzae L in s-w Nigeria; Oil palm germination; crustacea of Ghana. Contributors: Njoku, Gambles, Crosskey, Shinnie & Wilks, Caswell, Rees, Gauld. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000368

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: West Africa, Science Botany Entomology Insects Crustacea Research Science, Technology, Medicine

JAMES EDWIN BAUM

Gold and a Girl

London, Thomas Nelson. 1929, First Edition ?. Hardcover. Book, Red boards, illustrated endpapers, no jacket but else very good. By the author of Spears in the Sun. Set in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Scarce. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006564

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Africa Abyssinia Ethiopia Scotland Novel Fiction Romance Vintage Fiction

DAVID BEE

Children of Yesterday

London, Geoffrey Bles. 1961, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dustwrapper has some marks on the back; slight tanning to rear endpaper. Black boards, gilt titles. South African novel, the story of four men's lives, one Zulu, one Coloured, two white. Jacket design Harry Toothill. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005427

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Novel Fiction South Africa Modern Fiction

PHYLLIS BENHAM

In Livingstone's Trail

London, Universities' Mission to Central Africa. 1948, Second Edn. Cloth, 5" x 7.5". Book, Incorporating "The Quest of the Mighty". Pictorial eps, 9 photo illus. Binding a very little discoloured at edges, some foxing at beginning and end, small ink mark margin one page, pictorial dustwrapper little worn and marked at edges, bit foxed on back. Good/Good.

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Book number: 002322

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Missions, Religion, Exploration, Africa

IAN BERRY

Ian Berry; Living Apart: South Africa under apartheid

London, Phaidon Press. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714835234) Hardcover. Book, Text compiled from interviews by Chris Boot. Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Large book of photographs. Heavy, may need extra shipping to some locations. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 005763

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: 0714835234 Photography South Africa Apartheid Illustrated Politics, Economics, Social Studies

STEVE BIKO

The Testimony of Steve Biko

London, Grafton. 1987, Reprint. (ISBN: 0586050051) Soft cover. Book, Covers a little creased. Subtitled "Black Consciousness in South Africa". Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004315

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: 0586050051 South Africa Apartheid Autobiography History Politics, Economics, Social Studies History

HERMAN CHARLES BOSMAN

Unto Dust

Cape Town & Pretoria, Human & Rousseau. 1969, Third Edition. Hardcover. Book, Collection of 24 stories, published posthumously. Edited Lionel Abrahams, foreword by William Plomer. "The author has uncommon subtlety in portraying the simple Boer people..His writing is vivid..he has captured the mannerisms of speech of the Afrikaner, while writing in English""Satire, romance, irony""terseness and ironic understatement" Dustjacket design Gerhard Last. Some writing on front free endpaper, dustwrapper frayed & worn on edges, closed tear top edge, some damp stains on spine, few scratches on front. Good/Fairly Good.

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Book number: 002610

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Fiction, Literature, South Africa, Afrikaner Modern Fiction

ELENORE SMITH BOWEN

Return to Laughter

London, Readers Union / Victor Gollancz. 1956. Hardcover. Book, Green boards; very slight nick top edge front board. Fiction by an anthropologist. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006626

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Fiction Novel Africa Modern Fiction

MAX CATTO

Mister Moses

London, Heinemann. 1961, First GB. Hardcover. Book, Spine dark, front board stained, top edge stained but not visible on pages. Novel set in Africa. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000907

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Fiction, Novel, Africa

OWEN CHADWICK

Mackenzie's Grave

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1959, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Cloth bit worn, endpapers foxed, name on flyleaf, postcard taped to title page but has now come off, captioned Likoma Cathedral; slight remains of paper tape here and there on boards. Black cloth, portrait frontispiece. Loosely inserted leaflet from Hall's Car Hire Malawi, 1990. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005543

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Africa Biography Sub-Saharan Missions Livingstone Exploration History Biography History

JOSEPH CONRAD

Tales of Unrest

London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson. 1922, New Edition. Hardcover. Book, Spine dull and worn, corners bruised, endpapers brown, text good. Blue cloth, 297 pages. Nash's Famous Fiction Library. The Idiots, The Lagoon, The Return, An Outpost of Progress, Karain: a memory. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005663

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Fiction Vintage Fiction

RICHARD DEHAN (CLOTILDE AUGUSTA INEZ MARY GRAVES)

The Dop Doctor

London, William Heinemann. 1922, Popular Edition. Hardcover. Book, Red cloth, very worn, spine frayed; 671 pages, brown at edges and ends; hinges cracked. Novel set largely in South Africa during the British / South African War. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004819

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Novel Fiction Romance South Africa Boer War Vintage Fiction

R. B. DRUMMOND AND KEITH COATES PALGRAVE

Common Trees of the Highveld

Salisbury Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Longman. 1973, First Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Olive H. Coates Palgrave. Book, Plates from water colour paintings by the late Olive H. Coates Palgrave; photos by Deric & Paul Coates Palgrave. Bit worn edges; top right corner bit dampstained throughout. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002614

Catalogue: African Interest

Keywords: Olive H. Coates Palgravebotany, Southern Africa Natural History