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Bolahun: An African Adventure

By: Junge, Werner

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's: 1952

Seller ID: 013572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Very clean brown cloth boards with African mask decoration on cover, black lettering on spine. Hint of light surface wear to corners, no fraying, no wear-through. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 248 pgs. Illustrated with photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Adventure.
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In the Land of the Lion

By: Kearton, Cherry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Arrowsmith: 1946

Seller ID: 017409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean bright yellow cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Tiny bump to one corner tip; no fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 250 pgs. Illustrated with 88 wildlife photographs. Clean dustjacket with photo illustration of lion on front panel is not price clipped, has a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A famous naturalist tells of his adventures in central Africa, accompanied by his photographs. 8vo. Adventure. published 1946 in Great Brita...
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In the Land of the Lion

By: Kearton, Cherry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Arrowsmith: 1946

Seller ID: 022061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean book in original unclipped jacket, later printing. Very clean yellow cloth boards with crisp red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with 88 photographs. 250 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (5s.net on front inside flap), very small chip at bottom spine corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story of the author's expeditions in Central Africa, with excellent photographs of lions, rhonoceros, elephant, crocodile, ape...
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Return Fare

By: Kolar, Jean

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1960

Seller ID: 017140

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, First Printing (Stated "First Printing" on copyright page). Clean unfaded orange boards with unfaded black spine, orange lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slight tanning to pages). Clean bright endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 239 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unfaded, with a few tiny edge nicks. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A moral drama of a strained marriage between a French cocoa trader and his wife, set in Africa. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Fic...
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10,000 Tom-Toms

By: Larsen, Jens

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press: 1952

Seller ID: 014061

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Very clean green cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 268 pgs. + glossary. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has very small shallow chip at top rear panel edge, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A novel about jungle life in Liberia. 8vo. Fiction.
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Doctors, Drums and Dances

By: Laszlo, Andreas E., M.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Hanover House: 1955

Seller ID: 027247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with red title box, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with many glossy black and white photographs. 284 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, small wrinkle at top corner of rear panel, not price clipped; nice photo of author with an amazing camera in hand on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. T...
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The Arts of Black Africa (African Studies Center)

By: Laude, Jean

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1973

Seller ID: 029113

ISBN: 0520023587

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean and tight first paperback edition (so stated). Trade paperback - size approx. 5-1/2" x 8". No soiling, creasing or chipping; very slight wear to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Translated by Jean Decock. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 290 pages with index.
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Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa

By: Leigh, William R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1938

Seller ID: 028948

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Second printing (so stated) in original dust jacket. Beige buckram cloth boards with brown title box, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Map-illustrated endpapers (small previous owner return address label at top edge of front free endpaper). Illustrated with beautiful drawings. 299 pages. Dust jacket is tattered; piece missing at base of spine and at upper left of front panel, v-shaped chip at top of rear panel; not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A painter's impressions of th...
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The Desert Watches

By: MacArthur, Wilson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1954

Seller ID: 011992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 272 pgs. with glossary. An account of a motor journey across the Sahara Desert. 8vo. Adventure.
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Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa

By: Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin: 1916

Seller ID: 016316

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, first printing (1916 on title page, "Published May 1916" on copyright page). Very clean beige buckram cloth boards with brown stamped lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis photograph of Ntum women and girls with clean tissue guard, illustrated with additional black & white photo plates. 314 pgs. 8vo. Africa.
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The South African War - A Narrative of the Anglo-Boer War from the Beginning of Hostilities to the Fall of Pretoria

By: Mahan, Captain A. T.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Peter Fenelon Collier & Son: 1900

Seller ID: 024634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Decorated American trade binding - cover designed by George Wharton Edwards (so stated on copyright page). Large oblong book 11-1/2" x 17" bound in green cloth boards with gold lettering and design on cover. No fraying or wear-through, slightest hint of surface rubbing. Binding is tight, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrations selected and arranged by Harry T. Clinton. First Edition, with MCM on title page, Copyright, 1900 on copyright page. With an Introduction by Sir John G. Bourinot, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Litt.D....
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West With the Night

By: Markham, Beryl

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, North Point Press: 1987

Seller ID: 029001

ISBN: 0865473048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The Illustrated Edition, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean brown boards with small gold illustration on cover, clean green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with glossy black & white photographs (thirty-two pages of photographs). 261 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Exquisitely written autobiography of one of the ...
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African Women: Three Generations

By: Mathabane, Mark

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 1994

Seller ID: 014185

ISBN: 0-06-016496-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Fine

Clean red boards with gold lettering on black spine. Binding is tight and square. No bumping or edgewear. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright with no writing or markings. Illustrated with photographs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, no chipping, no tears. Black and white photo of author on rear inside panel. 134 pgs. with index. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.
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African Silences

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1991

Seller ID: 009107

ISBN: 0-679-40021-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, but has tiny (almost imperceptible) dent at bottom of front board. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 225 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.
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No Room in the Ark

By: Moorehead, Alan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1959

Seller ID: 005258

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean gold cloth boards with turquoise cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages are bright and clean. Maps on endpapers. Very small P/O label at inside edge of front free endpaper. Original publisher's bookmark with fold-out discussion of book is enclosed. 227 pgs. Beautifully illustrated with drawings and photographs. Clean, crisp and bright dustjacket is unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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The Importance of Being Black: An Asian Looks at Africa

By: Moraes, Frank

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1965

Seller ID: 008788

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near FIne

First Edition in dust jacket. Clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Black endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 436 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Clean dustjacket is price clipped, has small chip at top rear corner of spine (size of large pea), smaller chip at base of rear panel, two short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behaviour in East Africa

By: Moss, Cynthia

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1976

Seller ID: 024994

ISBN: 0241024536

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, SIGNED by the author, in original dust jacket. Clean yellow-green boards with gold lettering on spine. Tiny bit of bumping, no fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. Inscribed and signed on half-title page by the author: To David Blanton, With Best Wishes, Cynthia Moss -Nairobi - Nov. 3, 1983." Illustrated with black and white and full color photographs. 363 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is price clipped at lower corner of front inside flap, has slight edge wear and short closed edge ...
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Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa

By: Mowat, Farley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 1987

Seller ID: 028808

ISBN: 0446513601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean green-gray boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages are clean with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Some dust-speckling to top text block page edges. Illustrated with color photographs. 380 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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South From the Limpopo - Travels Through South Africa

By: Murphy, Dervla

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press: 1997

Seller ID: 002275

ISBN: 0-87951-948-7

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: Fine

432 pgs. Fine in Fine DJ - new mylar cover Very clean tight book - as new - with clean unclipped, unchipped dustjacket. No writing inside, no remainder marks, clean.Africa.
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A Journey to the Interior

By: Newby, P. H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Co.: 1946

Seller ID: 015243

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth boards with gold line drawing on cover, gold lettering on spine. Clean, with one tiny spot to front board, smaller than a pea. Slight surface wear to top and bottom spine edge, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers, with small previous owner name at top edge of front free and rear fixed endpaper. 276 pgs. 8vo. adventure/travel.
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Category: Africa