[Atlantic Highlands, NJ]: Humanities Press, [1979]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in orange and white; xii,[2],336pp.; maps in text. Light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked, old price sticker to upper jacket panel and remainder rubberstamp at bottom textblock edge, else Very Good and..... More
Cairo: All Saints' Cathedral, 1985. Second Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's green pictorial spiral-bound card wrappers; [14],93pp.; illus. A hint of soil to wrappers, ownership inscription inside upper cover, else Near Fine. Community cookbook,beginning with "Egyptian Specialties." Unlocated in OCLC as of July, 2018, nor do we find records..... More
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
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1890. First Trade Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's crimson morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original pictorial wrappers bound in; [4],233pp. Boards a bit scuffed, chiefly at corners (bumped with brief exposure), text block rather brittle and toned due to inferior..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955. Deuxieme Edition Revue [second revised edition]. Large, thick quarto; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown, teal, and black; [6],554pp.; ten leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, numerous maps and plans throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and quite toned, substantial dampstaining..... More
Baltimore, MD: The Afro-American Co., 1916. First Edition. Octavo. 60 pages. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Boards are worn at extremities with exposure. Some staining and spotting to boards. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Preliminaries a bit worn and soiled. Pages a bit..... 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
![Alger et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [Painters of Algiers 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5525.jpg?v=1570562132)
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
![L'Algérie des peintres 1830-1960 [Painting in Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5517.jpg?v=1570560685)
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
![L'Algérie du Sud et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [The Painters of Southern Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion...](/pictures/thumb/5520.jpg?v=1570561426)
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
![The Fight [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Norman Mailer](/pictures/thumb/8148.jpg?v=1608046369)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Stated First Edition. Bookplate signed by Mailer loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 239 pages. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Mailer's classic account of the Ali-Foreman fight, better known as the "Rumble in the Jungle." Unclipped dust jacket..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprint. Octavo. 219 pages. Beige dust jacket printed in brown. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows light staining and chipping with a closed tear along top edge at front. Staining along sides of boards. Spine cocked. Binding is sound. Previous ownership..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, [1976]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in black; xii,308pp.; maps and photographs throughout. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, boards very slightly bowed, else Very Good overall. First published in 1961. More
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Early reprint. 12mo; full contemporary brown straight-grained morocco, black gilt-lettered spine label; iv,[4],xii,[1]-385,362*-384*,[385]-716,12(ads)pp.; woodcut frontispiece, 47 leaves of plates (collated and complete). Boards a bit scuffed and expertly reattached at a later date with archival repair at spine foot to match, tiny..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. 204 pages. Illustrated wraps. Debut novel from Dangarembga, dealing with post-colonial conditions in present-day Zimbabwe. She would expand the work into a trilogy and the third volume, This Mournable Body, would be shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020... More