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19664591London: Mayibuye Publications 1966. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp Clean tight copy; text pages sl. tanned; VG or better. Prominent South African political prisoner detained in 1965 under the Suppression of Communism Act. Mayibuye Publications unknown books
196934842London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo 20.75cm; stapled wrappers; 462pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement" which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
197034841London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo 21cm; stapled wrappers; 18pp. Some pinpoint wear along spine-fold else a Fine copy. "This pamphlet does not attempt to deal with all aspects of the sale of arms to South Africa. It answers two popular fallacies: a that trade investment and friendship are persuading the South African government to abandon apartheid; and b that economic forces inside South Africa are eroding apartheid and bringing about political changes leading to a democratic and just society" from introduction. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
197134844London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1971. Third printing. Slim octavo 21cm; stapled wrappers; 131pp. A Fine copy. Discussion of the South African government's BOSS Bureau of State Security laws. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
186129188Cape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. Quarto. xii 180 pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt with leather label. Light scattered foxing occasional faint offsetting from images. Photographs generally clean. Very good.<br/> <br/>With some of the earliest photographic images from South Africa with a striking portrait of a Basuto Chief.<br/> <br/>An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was made to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. The book was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well-received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others do capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of the African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center of the image dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the Government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. Graham's Town from the West The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies Moshesh and His Counsellors The Prince and His First Wildebeeste The Prince's Travelling Equipage A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa.<br/> <br/>Not in The Truthful Lens. Saul Solomon unknown books
196046633Johannesburg: South Africa Department of Information n.d. ca. 1960s. First Thus. Octavo 24cm.; publisher's grey pictorial wrappers; 140pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities rather worn and dog-eared with chip at spine crown rear cover a bit dampstained else Good or better. Originally issued as a series of five pamphlets covering topics such as education economic advancement and agricultural improvement. South Africa Department of Information unknown books
196748170Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 10pp. Mild corner-creasing and evidence of handling else Fine. One of a series of "Topical Talks" on South African race relations issued by the SAIRR in the 1960s. South African Institute of Race Relations unknown books
197047443London: International Defence and Aid Fund 1970. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo; mimeographed wrappers; 47pp. Fine unread copy. Case of 22 Black defendants arrested in 1969 under the Suppression of Communism Act. International Defence and Aid Fund unknown books
198629544Washington DC: Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial glossy wrappers; 39pp; illus. Light wear; Near Fine. Articles on the State of Emergency the Rent Boycott Campaign Political Trials etc. Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law unknown books
1976TB27246New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with shallow "v" shaped narrow chips from the ends of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the panels. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1976TB18560New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing; otherwise the book is in fine condition. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a 1/8" chip at the upper fore corner of the front panel and with two short 1/4" closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area with minor related creasing. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1995TB03776New York: Random House 1995. First Edition. First printing Fine In a fine dust jacket. By the author of The Russians. Random House unknown books
189652558London & New York: Edward Arnold 1896. Fourth edition 8vo pp. xviii 2 636; 2 folding maps printed in color at the back one with a slightly ragged fore-edge gravure frontispiece portrait 21 plates by Talbot Kelly; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; some wear at the extremities small break in the cloth at the top of the spine; all else very good. <br/><br/> Edward Arnold hardcover books
192352557Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co 1923. First American edition 8vo pp. 316; errata slip tipped in at List of Illustrations; folding map frontispiece and 15 plates one ground plan in the text; fine copy in original pictorial orange cloth stamped in black. Czech p. 147-8: "A former officer in the King's African Rifles the author relates his big-game hunting and military adventures in various locales in South Africa North Eastern Rhodesia and Uganda . His military adventures include fighting the Germans in East Africa during World War I." <br/><br/> J. B. Lippincott Co hardcover books
184113094New York: G. Lane & P.P. Sandford 1841. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 317 pp in original blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded some edgewear small wormhole at fore edge moderate foxing throughout. Binding tight hinges secure. Shaw arrived in Cape Town in 1816 and soon established the first Wesleyan Mission Station in the interior of South Africa. The book offers a history of the European discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and the development of the colony with "numerous facts relative to missions.which were never before made public" and "notices of natural history referring to lions tigers &c." According to Mendelssohn II p. 308 the chapters on the Hottentots Bushmen Corannas Namaquas Kaffirs Bechuanas and other tribes "afford one of the best descriptions of the native races of South Africa published up to this period." G. Lane & P.P. Sandford hardcover books
188112959Hartford CT: R.W. Bliss and Company 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Subscription edition two volumes in one abridged from the original London edition. xiii 14-406 pp plus one leaf of ads; with a map showing the author's route from Benguella to Durban and more than 60 engraved illustrations including 23 full-page plates. Publisher's plum cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine. Spine sunned but fully legible a bit of staining to front board corners bumped. Binding solid hinges secure no markings. Serpa Pinto a Portuguese explorer recorded details of much terrain previously unknown to Europeans. He was the fourth explorer to cross Africa from west to east and "was the first to lay down with accuracy the route between Bihe and Lialui" Britannica 11th ed. R.W. Bliss and Company hardcover books
189652629London: Rowland Ward 1896. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 3 290 10 ads; folding map 10 plates and 8 illustrations in the text; original cream cloth stamped in brown on upper cover and spine; some light wear to the spine; very good. Gee p. 64. <br/><br/> Rowland Ward hardcover books
199110097London: John Murray. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0719548381 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . John Murray hardcover books
194413441New York: L.B. Fischer 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 286 pp plus one-page glossary of terms used in the "Mahogany" district of West Africa. Corners very slightly bumped else a fine copy in a clean priced dust jacket with a few small chips and short tears. A novel of life in the jungles of French West Africa. L.B. Fischer hardcover books
187457813New York: Harper & Brothers publishers Franklin Square 1874. First American edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 559 1; x 521 1 6 ads; 25 wood-engraved plates by J. D. Cooper folding map outlined in color of Dr. Schweinfurth's discoveries in central Africa approx. 12" x 17"; plus 1 other map and a tinted lithograph plate of the Phenomenon of the 17th of May 1869; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt; some wear and rubbing the binding a little spotted but a very good sound copy; title pages with the small and faint previous owner's name stamp of George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy who served as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Winwood Reade's introduction notes that ".out of a host of men who have attempted to penetrate Africa from north to south only two have achieved success. The first and foremost of these is Sir Samuel Baker; the second is Dr. G.A. Schweinfurth . who submitted to the Royal Academy of Science a plan for the botanical exploration of the equatorial districts lying west of the Nile . During three years he was absent in the heart of Africa and even before he had returned his name had already become famous in Europe and America. "Travelling not in the footsteps of Baker but in a westerly direction he reached the neighbourhood of Baker's lake passing through the country of the Niam-Niam and visiting the unknown kingdom of Monbuttoo . a scientific botanist and also an accomplished draughtsman . In a geographical sense this work is of importance as a contribution to the problem of the Nile; and ethnologically it sets at rest a point which has long been under dispute viz. the existence of a dwarf race in Central Africa." <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square hardcover books
189052606London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington n.d. 1890. 2 volumes small 8vo pp. xiii 1 298 2; viii 308; folding map with route outlined in color; 16 wood-engraved plates by J. D. Cooper plus other wood engravings in the text; small breaks in the cloth at the spine ends spines lightly sunned else near fine in original pictorial red cloth stamped in black on upper covers and in gilt on spine. First published in English in 1873. <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, n.d. hardcover books
189712358Boston: Roberts Brothers 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 133 pp ads with a gruesome frontis photograph of natives being hanged as spies. Original green cloth with decoration in gilt. Slight rubbing to corners gift inscription on front free endpaper mild foxing. A fictional account of the occupation of Mashonaland "in which Christ is depicted as visiting the camp fire of a trooper engaged in the expedition. The settlement of Rhodesia and the Jameson Raid are incidentally referred to with considerable animus" Mendelssohn II 281. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1959195445London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Sold as a two volume set. No pencil or ink markings in text of either volume. Dustjackets of both volumes slightly soiled spines sunned. DJ's protected Mylar Covers. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Chatto & Windus unknown books
19691840Amsterdam: N. Israel 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes in one. pp 70 80 illustrations 3 b/w folding 2 in color. A fine copy in original clear plastic jacket. Bibliotheca Austaliana #64. Facsimile reprint of the 1806 London edition. N. Israel hardcover books
012133London and Arusha Tanganyika: Safari Africa Limited Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A well-made illustrated promotional brochure describing a safari one might take. No copies on this lovely piece have been found by this researcher. --------- An engaging narration of the sights and sounds one would experience on such a travel well-demonstrated with b/w photography. Each Pair of pages has a lovely drawing of an area at the bottom of the pages. The trip was to be in East-Africa. ----------- Photo Page 13 shows M.A. Wetherell 1883 - 1939 a director who was a stage and film actor and director. Additionally there are a photos of a biplane of Imperial Airways; native people in traditional dress; African animals. -------- String tied stiff card-stock decorated wraps. 10.5 inches tall; Onion skin before and after the Text. 151 pages pre 1961 and since the photographed director died in 1939 we date this as earlier than 1939. Carefully handled minor hand-soiling on the wraps. 5th Edition 0. Safari (Africa) Limited Paperback books
