The making of an African legend; the Biafra story
New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. 286p., wraps; mild handling, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 300071
New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. 286p., wraps; mild handling, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 300071
New York: Sheridan House Publishers, 1948. Hardcover. 329p., original cloth boards; lacking dust jacket, slight stain on top-edge of front board, corners slightly bumped, else very good. More
Cat.No: 319170
[London?]: The Africa Bureau, 1957. Pamphlet. 11p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound wraps; price sticker on front cover, otherwise unmarked and very good. More
Cat.No: 315475
London: Martin Hopkinson Ltd., 1930. Hardcover. xii, 211p., hardbound first edition in red cloth boards gilt. A sound square copy, clean and unmarked, with one problem: pervasive light foxing. Largely a discussion of models such as German federalism. Gandhi is not yet a factor. More
Cat.No: 297996
London: New Park Publications, [1952?]. Pamphlet. 42p., wraps, paper browned, date penciled on front, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 57714
London: Published for Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins of London, 1941. Hardcover. 48p., plates as called for and well-reproduced, a superior catchpenny. Hardbound in 9x6.5 inch decorated paper-over-boards and enclosed in the ditto dust jacket. Nice book in nice condition; front free endpaper bears a neat small..... More
Cat.No: 296644
Ipswich, MA: The Ipswich Press, 1990. vii, 86p., very good in wraps. Republication of articles from 1941 with an introduction by John Quentin Feller. More
Cat.No: 159709
London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. Hardcover. 144p., essays on Asian political topics, the single illustration is a line map depicting a border dispute between China and India, principally the Ladakh area. Hardbound in red papered boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Top edge of textblock is mildly foxed..... More
Cat.No: 298449
Highland Park, MI: International Socialists, 1972. Newspaper. One issue, 16 pp., wraps, tabloid folded in half, very toned, smudged and chipped, Previous owners name penciled in top right of cover wrap. Articles on the "British Troops Shoot to Kill in Derry", speed up in auto plant, more. More
Cat.No: 257817
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979. 252p., preface, footnotes, tables, very good in a lightly worn dj with importer's sticker on rear. More
Cat.No: 85488
n.p. GPO, U.S., 8th August, 1944. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 274p., illustrated with a folded map in two colors & good condition bound in at back, an ex library copy per a relevant source, namely "U.S. Army Japanese Area & Language Course" (stamped twice, on titlepage and opposite check-out pocket, no..... More
Cat.No: 296999
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. Hardcover. xvi, 352p., the two line maps in colors as called for, plus a terminal 4p., the series menu. Hardbound first edition in 7.5x5 inch green cloth boards gilt and black, gilt a bit dim while remaining quite legible, slight edgewear to casing with a...... More
Cat.No: 297025
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services | AES, 1993. Hardcover. vii, 320 pages. 8 color plates (with the one facing page 90 poorly rendered, a result of a production flaw) 8 black and white illustrations and 3 maps, all present. A reprint of the Blackie and Son edition out of London..... More
Cat.No: 267959
npl: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. xiv, 320p., wraps; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 313542
Mexico, D. F: Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, 1968. 345p., plain printed 9.25 x 6.25 inch wraps, cover slightly browned and soiled, snags at head and tail, overlapping edges a little banged up. Presumably there was a volume II produced or intended, this is one volume only. Colophon saith..... More
Cat.No: 69919
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Paperback. xvi, 375p., softbound in glossy oxblood wraps, 9x6 inches. Externally very faintest edgewear, internally paperstock is rather toned, uniformly, all through. Totally sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 250288
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [SPCK], 1930. Hardcover. 84p., first edition cloth boards bound in dark blue waxed fabric titling gilt in a neat OUP style (on slightly smaller scale) and plain printed dust jacket. Book itself has decidedly toned endsheets, and a former bookdealer marred the e-p with..... More
Cat.No: 271782
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press of the Africa Research & Publications Project, 1984. Paperback. vi, 115p., 8.5x5.5 inch glazed decorated wraps, slightly sunned and edgeworn wraps, a sticker on back wrap, else entirely sound and free of markings, a very good copy. Mamdani derides the flood of books about Idi..... More
Cat.No: 299289
London: Darling and Son, Ltd., 1915. 7p., stapled wraps, 6x9.75 inches, dampstain on top-right corner, front wrap chipped and fold-creased with a rubberstamp crossed off in pen. Lord Milner's interview with the New York Times of August 21st, 1915, clarifying Britain's wartime position on the shipments of cotton and including..... More
Cat.No: 95286
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1957. Hardcover. 134p., 7x9.75 inches; damp stain along bottom edge of boards and text block, lacking dj if issued, ex-library rubberstamp on title page, else good. More
Cat.No: 284047
Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1985. Paperback. xiii, 185p., cloth paperback, 6x9 inches; maps, hint of foxing on block edges, else very good. Westview Special Studies in West European Politics and Society. More
Cat.No: 298583
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Hardcover. Second impression, viii, 441p., illustrated with sketched vignettes and fullpage paintings reproduced in b&w, hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch black cloth boards lettered pale yellow; lacks any jacket. Front endsheets are a doublespread line map, rear endsheets are blank except for an owner's bookplate..... More
Cat.No: 297197
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1920. Hardcover. xi, 546p., presswork on excellent paper, alkaline and lightweight allowing for a comparatively slender volume, hardbound in 7x5 inch maroon cloth boards gilt and blind. Hinges are sound although outer surfaces (joints) are a bit abraded and rear joint has..... More
Cat.No: 298096
London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1971. Paperback. 144p., trade paperback wraps; bit shelfworn, pages evenly toned, else very good condition. History of the Connaught Rangers mutiny when word got the sailors about the atrocities of the Black and Tans after they burned down and looted Irish villages. In response, the sailors..... More
Cat.No: 318950
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1945. Hardcover. Beaton's eye is wonderful, and his work is reproduced in good photogravure. 144p., pix and color charts as called for, text bears occasional light smudges, hardbound in green cloth boards with obliterated spine titling and edgewear. We see nothing amiss with..... More
Cat.No: 298048