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When Sex Threatened the State; Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958

By: Aderinto, Saheed

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Urbana, University of Illinois Press: 2014

Seller ID: 41335

ISBN: 0252080424

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 264 pages; Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh; feels and appears unread; tiny nick to the covers at the base of the spine. "Complimentary Copy" stamped on bottom edge. VG++ or better
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Schlachtungsgebrauche Im Alten Agypten Und Ihre Wiedergabe Im Flachbild Bis Zum Ende Des Mittleren Reiches

By: Arne Eggebrecht

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Munchen, 1973

Seller ID: 13019

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages; 1973 Munchen. Reprints author's 1966 dissertation. Original textured red card stock covers. Title lettering to cover; spine unlettered, as issued. Includes VII leaves of plates and in text illustrations. Tight fresh copy appears unread. No marks. Spine slightly sunned. NF
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Nasreddine Dinet; Un Maitre De La Peinture Algerienne

By: Baghli, Sid Ahmed (Ed. ) And Ahmed Taleb-Ibrahimi (Preface)

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Algiers, Societe Nationale D'Edition Et De Diffusion: 1979

Seller ID: 12402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Color Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; [1978/79] Societe Nationale D'Edition Et De Diffusion. Oversize HC/DJ -- folio. Bright clean copy; text in French and Arabic. Color plates tipped on to bordered pages. This copy numbered 13,978. Prior owner name and 1979 date penned neatly to front endpage. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering brightly to spine and cover. Color pictorial dust jacket is clean and bright with just mild edge and surface rubbing. VG+/VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Geology and Archaeology of Northern Cyrenaica, Libya

By: Barr, F. T. , (Ed.)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Petroleum Exploration Society of Libya: 1968

Seller ID: 16019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Tenth Annual Field Conference; Photos; Maps, diagrams, some folding; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 215 pages; Oversize HC/DJ. Square sound and neat; no marks. Dust jacket edge rubbed with several short closed tears. Illustrated with numerous geological maps, some folding, and photographs. Two larger folded maps in pocket at rear. Printed on glossy stock paper. NF/VG. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Longing for Darkness, Kamante's Tales from out of Africa; With Original Photographs (January 1914-July 1931) and Quotations from Isak Dinesen

By: Beard, Peter and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) & Kamante

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1975

Seller ID: 42848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; color drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 264 pages; Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly sun faded at spine, price clipped from top corner of front flap and with light rubbing and ruffling along the top edge. Short diagonal stress crease across the lower corner of the front jacket flap. Contents bright and clean, illustrated throughout with historical b&w photos and color reproductions of the art work of Kamante. VG++/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shi...
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The Hawk Alone

By: Bennett, Jack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1965

Seller ID: 24061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages; HC/DJ. Tight, bright and fresh in pictorial dust jacket. Just a trace of wear to jacket corners and spine ends; small closed tear to bottom of front jacket cover. Book spine ends lightly crimped. Text clean and unmarked. VG++/VG
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Zambian Journal Cross-Cultural Encounters With Christ

By: Berk, Dennis B.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lewisburg, PA, Areopagite Press: 2007

Seller ID: 12477

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 358 pages; 2007 Areopagite Press. Trade paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Superb unread copy. Tight, bright and fresh. Feels and appears as new. Fine
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Justice and Judgment Among the Tiv

By: Bohannan, Paul

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London & New York, International African Institute ; Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 16211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages; 2nd edition, with new preface. Snug clean copy in original dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth with title lettering in metallic silver to spine. Dark blue dust jacket lettered in white to panels. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges and falp folds. Prior owner name penned neatly top corner of front endpage. Attractive copy and uncommon thus. NF/VG
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Harambee Country; A Guide to Kenya

By: Bolton, Kenneth

Price: $11.50

Publisher: London, Geoffrey Bles: 1970

Seller ID: 23498

ISBN: 0713802669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages; HC in pictorial DJ. Text in brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Tight, bright and fresh. Illustrated throughout with B/W photographs. F/F
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A History of Egypt; from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest [Karl Kup Copy with Bookplate]

By: Breasted, James Henry

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935

Seller ID: 36971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Color frontis and fold maps, plates and photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 634 pages; 2nd revised edition. Soundly bound in original decorative pictorial blue cloth. Design to cover in red and dark blue with an extra gilt design to spine. Prior ownership of art historian and curator of collections NYPL - Karl Kup, with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Cloth lightly sunned and fading at spine; binding slightly cocked in the spine. Short closed tear to cloth at crown; mild rub and fray at lower front corners. Contents clean and neat. VG- ... Oversize book may require additio...
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Chiefdom Politics and Alien Law; Basutoland under Cape Rule, 1871 - 1884

By: Burman, Sandra

Price: $49.50

Publisher: New York, Africana Publishing Co.: 1981

Seller ID: 30-LB7R-FQAE

ISBN: 0333264428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Maps, B&W Photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages; 1981 Africana Publishing HC/DJ 1st ed. Bright, tight and fresh in an immaculate dust jacket. No marks. As new
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Britain and West Africa,

By: Cary, Joyce

Price: $9.50

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and co: 1946

Seller ID: 0220R729996

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

[Longmans' pamphlets on the British commonwealth ... Second series; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 71 pages; 1946 Longmans Green small format trade pbck in matte photographic wraps. Square, sound and unmarked Small chip out at crown of spine and front cover spine edge. Mild shelf soiling covers and mild stress bumping. Sound unmarked copy. VG-
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The Conquest of North Africa, 1940-1943

By: Clifford, Alexander G

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1943

Seller ID: 40596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 450 pages; 1st edition. Snugly bound and very neat in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just light shelf rubbing to jacket edges. Pictorial map endpapers and maps in text. VG++/VG+
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Le Sénégal et la Gambie

By: Deschamps, Hubert

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Paris, Presses Universitaires De France: 1975

Seller ID: 22503

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 125 pages; Mass market sized paperback in glossy, title lettered covers. Soundly bound reading copy with prior owner's sporadic pen underlining scattered through the text and the bibliography at rear. General light to moderate reading and handling wear; expected light toning to page stock. A decent reading or study copy. Good
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The Canary Islands; Containing 16 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour

By: Du Cane, Florence & Ella Du Cane (Illust. )

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, Ltd.: 1911

Seller ID: 25294

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Color plates and map, folding; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 171 pages; Snug and sound in original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 color plates on glossy stock from paintings by Ella Du Cane. Light shelf wear to jacket corners and edges with tiny chips at edges and shallow 1/4" chips missing from the spine panel ends. Jacket spine panel mildly toned. Light shelf wear to cloth at corners and spine ends. Slight split developing mid-text adjacent to illustration. Minor offset toning to front and rear endpages. Fold-out map at rear appears unviewed. VG+/VG
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Anthologie De La Litterature Marocaine, Arabe Et Berbere.

By: Duquaire, Henri

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Paris, Plon: 1943

Seller ID: 19081

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages; Paperback in title lettered wraps. Sound unmarked copy has light general shelf soiling to covers. Titles at spine sunned and fading. Lightly bumped at corners with consequent stress creases to the corners of the first and last few leaves. Moderate reader creasing to spine. Sound clean copy. G+
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Some Wild Flowering Plants of Ethiopia

By: Edwards, Sue

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa University Press: 1976

Seller ID: 24067

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

B&W & Color illlustrations; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 60 pages; Oblong format paperback is snug, solid and neat in glossy pictorial covers. Just trace shelf evidence to cover corners and a hint of soiling to rear cover. Illustrated with color and B/W drawings. VG+ to NF
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The Bull Whip

By: England, Jane

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday Doran: 1929

Seller ID: Alibris.0005170

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; HC/DJ 1st edition. Square, snug and neat in original mustard cloth. Pictorial dust jacket with pictorial art and graphic design by Wilford Jones. Dust jacket mildly shelf soiled to panels, a bit darkened to spine and with shallow chipping at spine ends and a tiny snag rear. $2.50 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. F/VG+
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Restless Feet

By: Erapu, Laban

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Nairobi, Oxford University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 19476

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 123 pages; Trade sized paperback in pictorial covers. Sound clean copy with a light vertical crease to the cover and text block. Light handling rub to covers at edges. One world marginal notation to the publisher copy on the rear cover. Solid and clean. VG-. Hard to find title.
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The Eastern Lacustrine Bantu (Ganda and Soga)

By: Fallers, Margaret Chave and Daryll Forde (Series editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, International African Institute: 1960

Seller ID: 16339

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Ethnographic Survey of Africa; East Central Africa Part XI; Map, folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pages; Trade sized paperback in title lettered card stock wraps. Sound clean copy with mild toning and shelf evidence to covers. Prior owner name penned neatly to front endpage. Folding map at rear. VG
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Category: Africa