Africa from Great Expectations Rare Books

San Francisco / New York: Large format hardcover bound in light gray cloth, in publisher's white pictorial dust-jacket. 304 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout with color photographs by Robert A. Kato. First edition, no additional printing listed. Exhibition Catalog, published on the occasion of the eponymously named show organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,… Read more about this item

New York: Miramax Books / Hyperion, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 322 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. Memoir of a safari guide who in addition to recounting the majesty and beauty of… Read more about this item

New York: Sacova Publishing Company, 2002. Large format hardcover in dust-jacket. 164 pages. New in publisher's shrink-wrap and housed in original publisher's box with printed color label. Included is a printed letter from the New York Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta that this book was presented to all members of the department as a gift following the fall… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover, orignal publisher's pictorial gray-blue cloth. Cover and spine stamped in silver and black depicting native people and a camel occupying an oasis backed by dunes. 280pp., Index. Illustrated with 8 full page engraved plates. Most likely the second edition of this title, first published in 1883. This… Read more about this item

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 330pp., Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. A account of a 6,000 mile, ten month bicycle trip, through eight former British colonies by an Amrican. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very fine in a… Read more about this item

New York: The James McCann Company, 1921. Hardcover, gray cloth, no dust-jacket. 264pp., copiously illustrated with photographs. First edition. Presentation copy by author, signed by him on front free end-paper. Spine lettering faded but just readable. Cloth lightly age soiled, text and illustrations clean. A sound, tight, generally clean copy. Good+. … Read more about this item

Londion: Chatto and Windus, 1959. Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 266pp., Map. Vol. I only. Edited, with an introduction by I. Schapera. First edition. Mild staining to top edge of text block and minor foxing to upper rear panel of dust-jacket. "Vivid and sometimes extremely outspoken, [the letters] contain much detail about… Read more about this item

New York: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1989. Trade paperback, small quarto. 224pp., Index. Illustrated throughout with color photographs and several maps. Slight bump to lower spine, else an as new copy. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked, fresh copy. Very good+.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. Hardcover, laminated boards in matching pictorial dust-jacket. 288pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. A title in the 'Portraits of Nations Series'. No previous ownership marks. Very mild bow to covers, else a fine, unread copy. Very good ina fine dust-jacket.. Fourth Printing. Laminated Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Fine. 8vo -… Read more about this item

London: Kegan Paul International, 1991. Hardcover, blue cloth in orange pictorial dust-jacket. 296pp., Bibliographic References, Bibliography, Index. Illustrations, maps and diagrams. First edition, published in the Monographs from African Studies Center series, Leiden. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp, unmarked copy. Unread. An as new copy in an as new… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 315pp., First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Travels across Africa by the author of "Mississippi Solo". In his varigated adventures Mr. Harris arrives at a fundamental truth, that American blacks are not African, thouigh there roots harken back to that continent,… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. Hardcover, light green cloth sans dust-jacket. 299pp., Bibliography. Illustrated. No previous ownership marks. A clan, square, tightly bound copy. Not ex-lib. Gold lettering on spine faded and light mottling to cloth on back-strip, else a very good copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Brandon, Mississippi: QRP Books, 1990. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 287pp. Stated first printing. No previous ownership marks, no remainder marks. The story of the author's 6,000 mile trip from Johannesburg to Cairo. A clean, square, tightly bund copy. Fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

London: Century Publishing, 1990. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 210pp., Index. Illustrated with double page map. No previous owner's name, no book-plate, no remainder mark. A clean, crisp as new copy. "A Far Country" is the portrait of a remarkable nation, of one of the world's most independent peoples. But it also deals… Read more about this item

New York: Walker and Company, 1988. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 267pp. Illustrated with line drawings by Veronica Hudson. First edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. No previous owner's name, no book-plate, no remainder mark, etc. A clean, square, crisp copy. Dust-jacket shows very small incidental scratch on rear panel,… Read more about this item

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 242pp., Index. Map endpapers. No name, no book-plate, etc. Endpapers somewhat toned, else fine in very good+ dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1948. Book club edition. Black cloth spine over green boards, in worn dustjacket. Stories of the autor's sojourn to Liberia, on the west coast of Africa. Near very good in chipped, worn near good dustjacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth Spine Over Boards. Near Very Good/Near Good. Illus. by Jo Dendel. 8vo -… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1935. Hardcover, tan cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Foreword by Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Stewart Symes. Large fold-out color map at rear, 367pp., index 11pp. A series of chapters penned by former and current officials of the Sudan Government that deal with the broad lines of history, ethnography, faith and economics of… Read more about this item