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NEW YORK: John Day Company, 1969.
FIRST EDITION. Hal and Roger Hunt are sent by their father, a famous animal collector, to capture a mountain gorilla, elusive and enormous. Based on the author's own travels and researches as a naturalist and featuring encounters with a white python, a black panther, a spitting cobra, and others. 189 pp. Green cloth binding with black lettering. Image of a trio of mountain gorillas amidst a lush backdrop on front and rear endpapers. Very light rubbing to corners. Dustjacket price-clipped. Light soiling to rear DJ panel. Very light DJ edgewear. Light sunning to DJ spine. Crisp, clean, and tight. more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987.
139 pages. The book is FINE. Dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelf/edge wear and light fading to spine. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people. Dust jacket reads: "Readers of Beryl Markham's beautiful, lyric autobiography, WEST WITH THE NIGHT, have long called for more works from this gifted writer. Finally, in the course of interviews with authorized biographer Mary S. Lovell, Ms. Markham revealed that she had indeed written or collaborated on several short stories, published only in magazines. These stories are now... more information
Price: 13.50 USD
Oxford, England: Heinemann, 2000.
Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. Fiction by modern Nigerian author about an African child, adopted by an English couple, and his quest for discovering his true identity. ; African Writers; 7.75" tall; 154 pages. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Oxford, England: Heinemann, 1987.
Sound binding. Off-white pages have occasional underlined passages. Wraps have light handling wear. Fiction set against the Mau Mau revolution in Kenya. ; African Writers; 7.75" tall; 136 pages. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.
206pp., 12mo, cloth, d.w. (cloth lightly worn at top and bottom of spine, d.w. chipped and worn). London: Jonathan Cape, (1954). Fourth impression. A very good(-) copy. more information
Price: 15.00 USD
New York: John Day, 1966.
A volume in the adventure book series by the prolific Willard Price, author of AFRICAN ADVENTURE, ELEPHANT ADVENTURE, WHALE ADVENTURE, VOLCANO ADVENTURE, etc. Jacket and endpapers by Charles Geer. 189 pp. Tape ghosts to book.Penciled notes to rear free endpaper (only) more information
Price: 55.00 USD
Scribner, 2003.
Paton's now-classic tale of life in Apartheid-Ruled South Africa. An enduring "...tale of love and hope, courage and endurance, borne of the dignity of man..." Minor shelf wear. more information
Price: 5.00 USD
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.
Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have slight edge rubbing and wear to corner tips. ; Novel by Nigerian-British writer about Nigerian woman who resists her husband's wish that the couple return to Nigeria from London. ; African Writers Series; 7.75" tall; 160 pages. more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Boston: Little, Brown, (1981).
Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Boston, Ma: Little Brown, 1960.
PON stamp in two places, head and heel of spine lightly bumped, corners sharp, cloth bright, dust jacket no tears but spine faded and scraped on back cover. more information
Price: 9.00 USD
Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1933.
Clean, tight, no names, no writing more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Hardcover fine (unread) and dustjacket near fine. Dustjacket now under mylar. Digital image available upon request. more information
Price: 20.00 USD
BOSTON, MASS: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.
FIRST EDITION. Acclaimed author's second novel takes its theme from the "shattered spiritual vision versus the grotesque material expectations of Africa today". 287 pp. Orange topstain, deckle edge. Light pipe tobacco aroma. Light yellowing to spine, extremities. Light bump to one corner. 2cm by 5 cm chip to top spinecap, light shelf creasing to bottom spinecap. Very light spine lean. Light tanning to very edge of pages. DJ archivally protected. Light browning to DJ extremities, spine. Light DJ edgewear including a quarter-sized chip to top spinecap. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Harper Collins, 1997.
Wraps, Uncorrected Proof, Fine (unread) w/ sl edgewear. Digital image available upon request. more information
Price: 23.00 USD
Washington: Black Orpheus Press, 1972.
149p., reprint edition, slightly worn dj. Novel of French Equitorial Africa by the Martinique-born author, translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou. more information
Price: 15.00 USD
