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Abanga, Doreen
Affa
Ghana
Ghana Publishing
1978
First Edition
Hard Cover
Good
Arkorful, Fiona
Hardcover 1st edition - 33 pp, pictorial cover - a wonderful tale of 10 year old Affa who lives in the North Eastern part of Ghana in West Africa. Some shelf and edgewear, along with bowing of covers, interior fine. A VERY HARD TO FIND item
092362
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49.99 USD
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Benet, Laura
Stanley Invincible Explorer
USA
Dodd Mead
1955
First Edition
Hard Cover
Good
Very Good
Ex-Library
Hardcover presumed first- some general shelf and edgewear, publication data page removed, some ex-library stamps and stickers but generally a good solid reading copy
090642
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8.99 USD
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Benson, Mary
Nelson Mandela
Toronto, ON, Canada
Penguin Books Canada, Limited
1986
0140089411 / 9780140089417
Mass Market Paperback
Very Good
Illustrated
Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers otherwise still a very good reading copy
087227
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4.99 USD
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Best, Ruth Showell
Strawberries All Year Round ( Autographed Copy )
Toronto
Mcclelland & Stewart
1970
First Edition
Hard Cover
Very Good
Fair
Illustrated ( Endpapers )
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - the personal story of a Canadian family from Burlington Ontario who went to live in Kenya for two years. Some minor shelf and edgewear otherwise a fine clean tight copy. Dust jacket is a little tattered
064288
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24.99 USD
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Dibba, Ebou
Chaff on the Wind: A Novel
USA
MacMillan
1986
0333412788 / 9780333412787
Soft Cover
Very Good
Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well some very light age toning, otherwise still a good reading copy - story is set in 1930s Gambia
NS8503
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15.99 USD
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Hodd, Michael
East Africa Handbook
Lincolnwood, Illinois, U.S.A.
Passport Books
2000
0844246301 / 9780844246307
Soft Cover
Very Good
Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy - 6th edition
NS14412
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8.99 USD
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Hofmann, Corinne
White Masai
U. S. A.
Arcadia Books
2007
1905147082 / 9781905147083
Soft Cover
Good
Illlustrated
Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers, otherwise still a good reading copy
NS11886
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7.99 USD
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Hudson, Mark
Our Grandmothers' Drums
USA
Minerva Press
1999
0749390875 / 9780749390877
Soft Cover
Very Good
Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers,as well some light age toning, otherwise a fine clean tight copy
NS8485
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14.49 USD
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Le Vaillant, Francois
New Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa By Way of the Cape of Good Hope in the Years 1783, 84 and 85 ( 3 Volume Set )
Paternoster Row, London
G.G. And J. Robinson
1796
First Thus
Half-Leather
Very Good
Illustrated
Professionally rebound with leather spine, raised bands, gilt lettering and floral motif on backstrip. Very tight 3 volume set, dull grey topstain, remaining edges with speckled stain. Magnificent maps and (copper)plate illustrations, all present with the exception of Plate 4 volume 1 and plate 15 volume 3. Some foxing throughout, otherwise exceptionally good condition. François Le Vaillant (1753-1824) was an adventurer and natural historian. He was the son of the French Counsel to Dutch Guiana. He grew up there and spent his early years studying and collecting specimens of birds. His first major monograph was on the birds of Africa. This grew out of his travels in Africa with the Dutch East India Company collecting specimens under the sponsorship of Jakob Temminck, the father of the Coenrad Jakob Temminck. Le Vaillant was one of the first to penetrate the interior of Africa where he discovered many new species. He wrote the 6 volume Historie Naturelle des Oiseaux D'Afrique while living in the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. He also wrote about the conflict between the English and the Dutch over possession of the Cape. His own collection of plant and animal specimens was lost at sea when the English attacked the ship bearing it home.Le Vaillant arrived in South Africa at exactly the same time as the British commenced hostilities against the Dutch, and found his expedition in a miserable state when all his belonging were destroyed as the British blew up the Dutch ship he had been travelling on. He was befriended by a local Dutchmen, and was eventually able to start his exploration. Le Vaillant comments on the value of Nysena as a potential colony, the short-sightedness of the East India company's importation of lumber when there were plentiful forests around, and criticized the governor of Blettenberg's vanity. The narrative is characterised by the intelligent and interesting manner in which it is written, although the rhapsodies on the Hottentots must have sounded strange to colonial ears.
069733
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2250.00 USD
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Livingtone, David
Livingstone's Africa Perilous Adventures & Extensive Discoveries ... Herald-Stanley Expedition ...
Chicago
Hubbard Brothers
1872
First Thus
Hard Cover
Fair
Hardcover, decorative burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Rather generally worn but still a delight for both text and engravings. Complete title is: Livingstone's Africa Perilous Adventures & Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa from the Personal Narrative of David Livingstone together with the Remarkable Success and Important Results of the Herald-Stanley Expedition as furnished by H.M Stanley being a complete reliable and graphic history of the extensive explorations, important discoveries and thrilling adventures of the greatest explorer of modern times, in the richest and wildest country upon the face of the Earth, among savage men, ferocious beasts, deadly reptiles, poisonous insects, etc etc, covering a period of nearly 28 years and including a full and graphic account of the Herald-Stanley Expedition and what it experienced and accomplished etc etc to which is added a Sketch of other Important Discoveries in Africa including the celebrated diamond diggings at Colesberg Kopje. Covers are quite worn and interior pages are age toned and slightly foxed, but still a delight to read
089471
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35.00 USD
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Mahoney, Florence ( Dr Asi Florence Peters Mahoney )
Stories of the Gambia
Banjul, Gambia
Government Printer
1975
First Thus
Soft Cover
Very Good
Illustrated
Likely first edition, original staple bound wraps, 82 pp plus maps. A clean bright copy of this very hard to find work. Illustrated with numerous b&w photographs. From a Wikipedia bio: " Dr Asi Florence Peters Mahoney (born 1929) is a Gambian Creole or 'Aku' author and the first Gambian women to obtain a PhD.Florence Mahoney was born in 1929 in Bathurst, Gambia to Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters (1894-February 14, 1968) and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie was a Sierra Leone Creole father while Rosemary was a Gambian Creole or Aku. Because Gambian Creoles or Akus are descendants of Sierra Leonea Creoles who worked and settled in Gambia, Mahoney has ties on both sides to Sierra Leone. The Peters family was of West Indian or more likely Nova Scotian Settler descent (making them descendants of the original black American founders of the 1792 Freetown settlement and possibly direct descendants of Thomas Peters himself). The family was also related to the prominent Sierra Leonean Creole Maxwell family that produced Joseph Renner Maxwell the first African graduate of the University of Oxford and the son of a colonial chaplain. Mahoney was one of five children including the late Dr. Lenrie Peters and actor Dennis Alaba Peters. Her parents had met each other in the 1920s and married within the same decade. Mahoney's father, Lenrie Ingram was a graduate of Fourah Bay College and because of that institution's affiliation with Durham University was also a graduate of the latter university. Peters was the longest serving editor for the Gambian Echo and a staunch advocate for the rights of indigenous Gambians. He was a pan-Africanist and used to read poetry to Lenrie Jr. as a child. Mahoney attended St. Mary's Anglican Primary and then the Methodist Girls' High School and passed her Senior Cambridge School Certificate. Mahoney was then sent to Elphins' Boarding School for girls in Derbyshire, England. After finishing, Mahoney attended Westfield College (now Queen Mary, University of London) and received a bachelor's degree with honors in History. Mahoney then attended the University of Oxford where she obtained a post-graduate degree in Education. Mahoney then studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies where she obtained a PhD in History. Mahoney was the first Gambian woman ever to obtain a PhD. Mahoney returned to the Gambia and married John Mahoney Jr. John Mahoney was the son of Sir John Mahoney a member of an influential and prominent Gambian Creole family that was active in colonial politics. Dr. John Mahoney's sister, Hannah Augusta Darling Mahoney married Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, the first leader of the Gambian Republic following independence on February 18, 1965. In 1972, Mahoney was made a 'Fulbright Professor of African history' and lectured at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. In 1973 she returned to the Gambia but shortly thereafter she returned to the United States in March, 1974 to lecture at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. Mahoney taught "History and Religion" before rejoining her husband in Congo Brazzaville after her classes had ended.
086968
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85.00 USD
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Marsolais, Father Guy
Prieres En Langue Crise (Prayers in the Cree Language )
Moosonee, Ontario
Presses Missionnaires Ste Theres De L'enfant Jesus - Cote Ouest De La Baie James
1960
First Edition
Hard Cover
Very Good
Illustrated
Signed by Author
Small blue cloth hardcover, illustrated, text in CREE. From inscription on FFEP - "Prayers in the Cree Language printed by Father Marsolais in the basement of Ste Therese de l'Enfant JEsus at Moosonee, Ontario - book binding was done by a young Cree lad:" SIGNED by the author and dated August 8, 1960. 81 pp. In fine condition - clean tight and bright
073980
Price:
145.00 USD
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Opoku, A. A.
Festivals of Ghana
Ghana
Ghana Publishing
1970
First Edition
Soft Cover
Good
Softcover, presumed first. Part of a series on Ghana Past and Present. Illustrated by photographs. Some edgewear and rubbing of covers, interior fine
092363
Price:
6.51 USD
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