Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, (1961). First edition - Foreword by Raymond Apthorpe. Focuses on initiation rites, but also includes chapter on general beliefs. missionary influence, ec. Illustrated with photographs. 74 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.

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." 318 pp.

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: 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 - 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.

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.

New York: Pantheon, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of folk tales from Zimbabwe and Botswana, retold by the author best known for his series in "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" xiv, 189 pp. ISBN: 9780375423123.

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.

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.

New York: Scholastic, (1999) dj. Hardcover - Charming story set in a small village in Tanzania (where the author had served in the Peace Corps.) "Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva." Illustrated in full color by Christy Hale. Slightly oversized square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-439079748.

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.

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.

Pretoria, SA: Briza, (2002). Hardcover - A look at the medicinal plants which are an important part of South African culture, illustrated throughout with 500 photographs, most in full-color, 135 distribution maps and chemical structure diagrams. "A photographic guide to the most commonly used and best known South African plant medicines, including their botany, main traditional uses and active ingredients. This Revised Edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest research findings. The book includes: Detailed species descriptions of more than 150 medicinal plants and their close relatives, or other species used in a similar way." Includes a plant list according to ailments; glossary, index. 304 pp. ISBN: 1-875093-095.

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: Viking, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of grand larceny set in Idi Amin's corrupt Uganda. Map. 459 pp plus afterword. ISBN: 0-670-411329.

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.

New York: Norton, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Cogent and provocative analysis of human potential and international resources, [which] compares the "Atlantic third" to the wealthy and privileged class of last century." A title in the Christian A. Herter Lecture series, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies126 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover - A young woman from Iowa, a sculptor and wood-carver, accompanies her husband to Liberia during World War II, where he was to manage a rubber plantation. sometimes humorous account of her learning the ways of the tribes people among whom she was living. Illustrated with sketches and decorations by Liberian artist Jo Dendel. 302 pp.