Unions in Transition: Cosatu at the dawn of democracy
Johannesburg: NALEDI, 1994. Paperback. 86p., slender paperback, very good. Based on surveys of Cosatu membership around the country. More
Cat.No: 221116
South Africa
The political economy of Pondoland; 1830 - 1930
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Hardcover. xi+220p., preface, introduction, postscript, notes, select bibliography, index, illustrated with maps and tables, very good first edition in dj with a sunned spine. African Studies Series 33. More
Cat.No: 108747
Crossroads I live Where I like, A graphic history
Oakland: PM Press, 2021. paperback. xvi-145p., 7x10 inches, color and illustrated graphic history "art quality" paper, new. Illustrated by André Trantraal, Nathan Trantraal and Ashley E. Marais. Forward by Robin D.G. Kelley. More
Cat.No: 264281
Baym Rand fun gold: tsayt-poeme
Johannesburg: Farlag Kayor, 1966. 47p., staplebound booklet, very good. Yiddish poetry dedicated to Johannesburg on the 80th anniversary of the city’s founding. The title means “The Golden Rand.”. More
Cat.No: 231045
De hond bij de Nyanga; ritueel en sociologie
Bruxelles: Éditions J. Duculot, 1956. Paperback. 168p., frontispiece, introduction, text in Dutch, library rejection stamp otherwise very good in wraps. Académie Royale des Sciences Coloniales Classe des Sciences, Morales et Politiques, Mémoires in 8th, Nouvell Série tome viii, fasc. 3 (ethnographie). More
Cat.No: 148453
Basic documents
n.p. BCM(A), 1987. Pamphlet. 30p. staplebound booklet, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 296739
Episode in the Transvaal: a novel
Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. Hardcover. 295p., ownership name on endpaper, pages significantly toned otherwise good first edition stated in red boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj. Bloom was arrested and held for six weeks and had his passport cancelled. More
Cat.No: 232317
Familiarity is the kingdom of the lost
New York: Dutton, 1969. Hardcover. 190p., preface, very good first edition in boards and unclipped, lightly-edgeworn orange dj. Fictionalized autobiography of a South African black man. More
Cat.No: 207806
BCLSA Newsletter, April 20, 1977
Boston, MA: BCLSA, 1977. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, mimeographed both sides, folded in thirds for mailing, address label at bottom of reverse else very good condition. Includes a note on the campaign to get First National Bank of Boston to divest, and plans for a May Day demonstration against apartheid..... More
Cat.No: 176989
The fight for freedom in South Africa, and what it means for workers in the United States
Boston: the Committee, 1979. Pamphlet. 40p., wraps, title and issuer listed on green labels neatly applied to front cover. More
Cat.No: 52792
Mandela op de koelkast
Amsterdam: Augustus, 2006. 62p., very good in wraps; text in Dutch. Dutch writer discusses her experience in the fight against apartheid. More
Cat.No: 197095
Honorary white
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Hardcover. 190p., map, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj. Braithwaite, an African American writer, was officially designated as "Honorary White" in order to gain access to restricted Whites Only hotels and restaurants as a journalist. The UK edition contained 8 pages..... More
Cat.No: 213182
Sinking Ship Blues
Toronto: Oasis, 1977. Paperback. 73p., 6.5x6.5 inches, introduction, poem by Ferlenghetti, illustrated with drawings by the poet, poems, acknowledgements and disclaimer, very good first edition paperback in yellow pictorial wraps and glassine jacket. Written and published while Breytenbach was serving a sentence in a South African prison. More
Cat.No: 227544
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Young Spartacus [1 issue of the newspaper]
New York: Spartacus Youth Publishing Co., 1986. one issue of the newspaper, number 132, December 1985-January 1986 edge and shelf worn, else generally very good condition. Major article on the Cuban troop in Angola fighting South African troops. More
Cat.No: 254263
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Young Spartacus [10 issues of the newspaper]
New York: Spartacus Youth Publishing Co., 1985. Ten issues of the newspaper, a complete run for the year 1985. Issues present are Numbers 123 to 132. Numbers 123, 124, 125, 128,129, and 131 are 12 pages each, all others are 8 pages each. All lightly toned and folded horizontally as..... More
Cat.No: 238537
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Young Spartacus [46 issues of the newspaper]
New York: Spartacus Youth Publishing Co., 1980-1986. Newspaper. Forty-six issues of the newspaper, spanning the period from November 1980 to March 1986. Issues present are Numbers 86-92, 100-104, 107-119, 121, 123, 124, 126-130, and 132-134, which was the last issue of the newspaper. Various pagination, folded tabloid newspaper format, evenly..... More
Cat.No: 252838
Three letters from Africa: to my former students at the University of Pretoria, the University of Natal, Adams College, Afrikaans-speaking, English-speaking, African; with a foreword by Alan Paton and introduction by Douglas V. Steere
Wallingford: Pendle Hill Pamphelets, 1965. Pamphlet. 39p., 5x7.5 inches, foreword, introduction, very good in original wraps. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 139. More
Cat.No: 100499
Evolution - design or accident? Our Changing World-View, lecture 3
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand Press, 1932. 13p., 6x9 inches, staples rusted else very good pamphlet in stapled printed green wraps. Dr. Broom was a Scottish South African physician and paleontologist. This is an early lecture which led to his 1933 book "The Coming of Man:was it accident or design?"..... More
Cat.No: 231551
Interval in Africa
Canterbury: Protea Publishing Co., 1988. xiii, 368p., author's notes, prologue, epilogue, very good first edition in cloth, gilt and unclipped dj. A Connecticut housewife in Africa. More
Cat.No: 148747
The Catholic Church in South Africa: from its origins to the present day
New York: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1960. Hardcover. xiv, 384p., prologue, references, index, photos, maps, very good first edition in black cloth and lightly-worn dj. More
Cat.No: 152255
South Africa; a glance at current conditions and politics
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. vi+238p., preface, very good reprint of the original 1905 edition in publisher's brown cloth and gilt. More
Cat.No: 108388
Letters to Martha, and other poems from a South African Prison
London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1982. Mass Market Paperback. 57p., illustrated only with a vignette author portrait, and a tribal design on the front cover. Later printing, a small softbound in mass-market format. Covers are faintly edgeworn, text-block paper is deeply, evenly toned throughout, signed twice by Brutus: firstly, on..... More
Cat.No: 306275
Stubborn hope; new poems and selectons from "China Poems and Strains"
Washington: Three Continents Press, 1978. Hardcover. 98p.,frontis-portrait, signed by the South African poet then residing in the US, very good first US edition incloth boards and edgeworn, unclipped dj. Brutus was for a time imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela. More
Cat.No: 203361
China Poems
Austin: University of Texas. African and Afro-American Studies & Research Center, 1975. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 9x6 inches landscape format, very good condition. The South African American poet, best known for his antiapartheid activities, was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela. More
Cat.No: 87792
Impressions of South Africa
New York: The Century Co., 1897. Hardcover. xvi+499p., introduction, 3 color folding maps at rear, untrimmed, t.e.g., first edition in original publisher's cloth gilt; front hinge is cracked but holding nicely, maps in good shape, spine and top-edge gilt bright, a good to very good copy. More
Cat.No: 101153