Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The use and production of cloth in Bunu (Yoruba) society in central Nigeria from 1900 to the present, and the traditions associated with that cloth. The title refers to a Yoruba saying that 'Cloth only wears, it does not die." Illustrated with 8 full color photographic plates and many black and white photographs, as well as figures and maps. . Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 269 p. ISBN: 0-295-973927.

New York: Del Rey, (1998.). SIGNED - Tale inspired by Resnick's years of living in Africa, the story of a leader of the Kikuyu people who takes them from an overpopulated Kenya to a planet which resembles the Africa of their ancestors. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword in which he talks about how he wrote this - and the many awards it has won. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-345-41702x.

Capetown and London: Oxford University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, 1953. First edition - A paper written as a study-in-the-field, which focuses on the place of 'bona' in post-mortem rituals. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes. 40 pp.

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, (1961). First edition - A preliminary analysis of the raw data, rather than a finished work - one which focuses on the symbolic objects, especially as they are used by two diviners - Muchona and an Angolan diviner. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 85 pp plus bibliography and list of other publications.

Bloomington: University of Michigan Press, (1990). "A groundbreaking theoretical exploration of the relationship between class formation and gender based on intensive study of the recent historical experience of Ghanaian market women." Photographs, charts and graphs. Prologue, blbiography, index. xv, 299 pp. ISBN: 0-472064444.

Chicago: Rand McNally, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - A lighthearted account of a New Yorker's 18,630 mile trip through 12 African countries, from Algeria through the Sahara Desert and on to French West Africa, Nigeria, and more. Chico drove the specially built car, and she was accompanied by her dog Fllicka. Illustrated with maps and drawings by Seymour Fleishman. 255 pp.

London: Allison & Busby, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Arranged topically - from girl and woman through beauty and life to witchcraft and poisoning. Map. Notes on oral sources, bibliography. ISBN: 0-85032-8637.

New York: The Penguin Press, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel , one which focuses on the complicated relationships among members of an African family and the "transformative power of unconditional love." 321 pp.

New York: The Penguin Press, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel , one which focuses on the complicated relationships among members of an African family and the "transformative power of unconditional love." 321 pp. ISBN: 978-1594204494.

New York: The Penguin Press, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel , one which focuses on the complicated relationships among members of an African family and the "transformative power of unconditional love." 318 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of two excursions in tropical rain forests by a journalist who is described as 'part biologist, part linguist, part anthropologist, ...who is fascinated by other ways of living..'. In the first section he describes his ascent of the Nhamunda river, a little-known, but long, tributary of the Amazon; in the second part he explores Zaire in Africa, trekking into the heart of the Ituri forest, the land of the BaMbuti and Efi pygmies. Cover praise from Russell Banks and Tracy Kidder. Index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-671494414.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive book on African textiles and personal adornments, with examples selected from over 2400 items in 77 private and public collections. Pprepared for 1973 exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Includes textiles, clothing and headresses, as well as decorative arts including jewelry, body tattoos and scarification patterns. Illustrated with 244 photographs, 40 in full color. Map. Notes, bibliography. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-870702289.

Mountain View, CA & and Omaha, NE: Pacific Press Publishing Association 1966. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on front endpaper with 'best wishes' Autobiography of an African orphan, who was educated in a mission school and then adopted by an American couple. Her life was featured in a "This is Your Life" segment, and she herself returned to Africa in a missionary capacity.

Mountain View, CA & and Omaha, NE: Pacific Press Publishing Association 1966. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on front endpaper 'with love' Autobiography of an African orphan, who was educated in a mission school and then adopted by an American couple. Her life was featured in a "This is Your Life" segment, and she herself returned to Africa in a missionary capacity.

New York: Anchor Books, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The third book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by this Scottish writer who was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbawe). Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the detective agency is hired to investigate the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important Government Man, and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest. SIGNED on the title page. 227 pp plus 1 pp advertising the next book in the series. ISBN: 1-400031362.

New York: Penguin, 2016. First edition - A novel which moves from Northwest London to Africa, the story of two brown girls who dream of being dancers, although only one has talent. By the author of the award winning "White Teeth." A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 453 pp.

London: Methuen, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first collection of poems by this Nobel Prize winning author, published when he was in prison in Nigeria for allegedly supporting secessionist Biafra. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. Notes, 88 pp. ISBN: 0-416-46310x.

New York, NY: Scribner, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A lyrical, haunting story of family, love, and loss in a land as dangerous as it is beautiful." (Jeannette Walls) A story of growing up in war torn Rhodesia during the 1970s and early 1980s. Photographs. Glossary. 269 pp. ISBN: 978-0-743286794.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, one which takes us below the surface to look at the lives of three men in the small town of Brits in the Western Transvaal, South Africa -a white Afrikaaner vet, a black taxi driver and a young Indian shopkeeper. Includes an afterword which updates the situation of these three men in 1989. Map. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-671645935.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A trip through some of the most threatened and beautiful land in the world, by train, dugout canoe, chicken bus and truck. Forty years after Theroux first went to Africa to teach in the bush in Malawi, he finds devasting changes - poorer, more decrepit, more pessimistic, less educated, more corrupt. 472 pp. ISBN: 0-618-134247.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992). First edition - A novel of international espionage as Sir Kenneth Aubrey and tough Patrick Hyde as they race across Africa in an attempt to thwart an evil and greedy man. 425 pp.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a young journalist's trip across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan, in an attempt to find out what was happening at the notorious salt mines at Taoudenni - where they being worked by Malian slaves, as was reported? Map, photographs, index. 197 pp,. ISBN: 0-897330285.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1992). First edition - A provocative and very unusual anthropology work - Edith Turner was the wife of the noted anthropologist Victor Turner and for several years in the 1950s, she was at his side when he conducted fieldwork among the Ndembu. But when she returned in 1985 and sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu, her perspective changed to the view of millions of Africans - that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power. Illustrated with photographs. A title in the Series of Contemporary Ethnography. Several appendices, references, index. xii, 239 pp. ISBN: 0-812213661.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - For more than fifty years, explorer-naturalist George Schaller has been on a mission: to save the world's great wild beasts and their environments. This biography, illustrated throughout with Schaller's own full color photographs and maps, examines how his landmark research revolutionalized field biology, demonstrating that it is possible to study dangerous animals in their own habitats: mountain gorillas in Central Africa, tigers in India, leopards in the Himalayas, and many others. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Sources, index. 103 pp. Square format, slightly oversized. ISBN: 9780374345785.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Reissue of a book originally published in 1982 with a new introduction for this edition by the author. SIGNED on the title page. A story of grand larceny set in Idi Amin's corrupt Uganda. Map. xi, 475 pp plus afterword. ISBN: 0-89296-533-9.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life In North America. Although not a sequel to "The Color Purple" or "The Temple of my Familiar," Tashi was a barely glimpsed character there. Combining fact and fiction, this deals with the controversial issue of female genital mutilation and its effect on women. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-15-17315217.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Color frontispiece. Photographs. Bibliography, map endpapers. 373 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the making of a documentary film to educate people about the harmful practice of female genital mutilation. Color frontispiece. Photographs. Bibliography, map endpapers. 373 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-15-1000611.