New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1925. First Edition. Two Octavo Volumes. xv, 328 pp.; xv, 424 pp. All plates and illustrations present. Volume One is red brick cloth and stamped in black. Volume Two in same with spine stamped in gilt and front blind stamped. Lacking dust jackets... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 216 pages. Black and white photographs, line drawings, and maps. Number 85 in the Ancient Peoples and Places Series. Photographic dust jacket is faded along front panel, spine, and top edge and near spine of rear panel. Creased along top and..... More
Washinton, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002. Stated First Printing. Signed by author Jason Carter and Introduction author, former President Jimmy Carter on bookplate attached to front free endpaper. Octavo; xxiii, 278p +2p acknowledgments. Photographic dust jacket with original $26.00 price; book in black paper-covered boards with red cloth spine..... More
First Edition. Paperback. Benin City: Ethiope Publishing Corporation, 1974. First Edition. Octavo; 111pp. Illustrated green paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a slight curve along spine and a few scratches and scuffs. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Omotoso's fourth novel, claimed to be the first Nigerian detective novel. More
Istanbul: Kader Basimevi, 1947. Side-stapled printed wraps. Tall Octavo. 21 pages. Scarce scholarly monograph of the itinerant 11th-century polymath. "To Dr. Maurice Pechet," handwritten at top of wrapper title. Pechet was an inventory, scientist, doctor, and professor at Harvard. Uzman, known for his research into Gargoylism at Harvard..... More
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Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2000. First Edition. Folio; 286pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured deep ochre boards with gold stamping on spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge, but with no chips or tears. Binding tight and square. The first in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué..... More
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Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2002. First Edition. Folio; 318pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Spine slightly cocked; binding otherwise tight. The second in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying Algerian painting region by region. Full-color reproductions on most..... More
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Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2003. First Edition. Folio; 214pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacketover textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Jacket very lightly rubbed along bottom edge. Boards square with light bumps to corners and spine ends. The third in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937. First Edition. Inscribed by author (but not signed) on front free endpaper: "To Kariuki K. Njuri with all good wishes from the Author, July 3 1958." Octavo; vii + 296pp, including bibliography and index. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine... More