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WHO'S IN RABBIT'S HOUSE? A Masai Tale.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Dial Press, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - Adapted by Aardema from the Masai tale 'The Long One' and illustrated in full color, using pastels and tempura, by the Dillons. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8037-95505.
Condition: Ex-school library with the usual markings, a tear to the front endpaper, but overall good condition in a bright and attractive and unmarked dust jacket..
Book ID: 56086More details Price: $13.50 -
A HISTORY OF ZANZIBAR: A Study in Constitutional Development 1934-64
Edition: Trade paperback.
Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Literature Bureau, (1983, c 1970). Illustrated with maps and photographs. Includes several appendices, bibliography, index. 208 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed blue and black wrappers (toning to pages, but otherwise clean and tight)
Book ID: 85081More details Price: $17.50 -
THREE JOURNEYS with three forewords by Viscount Cave and appreciations of Sir Lloyd Mathews by H.H. Sultan Mohamed Aga Khan and Sir Rennell Rodd.
Edition: First printing.
London: Thornton Butterworth, Limited, (1928). Hardcover first edition - Accounts based on the diaries she kept (to win a bit with her sister) on three journeys to East Africa, including Zanzibar and Uganda in 1901, to South Africa in 1919 and to Canada and America in 1920. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 17 internal plates. Index. xv, 286 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, some foxing to edges of textblock, previous owner's name dated 1932.
Book ID: 81284More details Price: $75.00 -
THE EMERGENT CONTINENT: Africa in the Nineteenth Century.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent overview of the history of Africa in the years after 1800, focusing on the roles of the Africans themselves, well illustrated with drawings and photographs, six maps. One of the titles in the series Benn's World Histories. Index. 144 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36495More details Price: $16.00 -
BURR MCINTOSH MONTHLY, JULY, 1909, Volume XIX, Number 6.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good (some wear to the edges of the cover, a few pages with short edge tears, but overall very bright and attractive.)
Book ID: 81660More details Price: $50.00 -
SOME PERSPECTIVES ON THE MAU MAU MOVEMENT: Kenya Historical Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1977
Edition: First printing.
Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1977. First edition - A Special Issue of the Kenya Historical Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1977 with twelve articles on the topic, and an introduction by Bethwell A. Ogot. Slightly oversized trade paperback. pp 169-403.
Condition: Very good in green illustrated covers.
Book ID: 82512More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BOOK OF SECRETS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Picador, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1988, with retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandes discovering the 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator, which draws him into the history of the Asian community of East Africa and the liaisons, secrets, and feelings of its people. Winner of the first Giller Prize in - the jury citation called it Part generational history, part detective story, part social chronicle, the novel is a living tapestry to join the past to the present." Glossary. Map frontispiece. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-312140835.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84574More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LAST STAND OF FATHER FELIX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Africa in the 1950s by this prolific author, probably best known for "The Mouse That Roared" (basis of the film of the same name) "Father Felix, whose tiny mission serves inhabitants of a remote East African village, becomes a cause in the war between Bantu Royalists and Great Britain-backed pan-tribal Republican blacks. Father Felix elects to stay in his jungle in the face of Bantu invasions in order to call world attention to the need to make a stand for a 'place of peace.' The narrator-newsman goes with the Republican rescue corps; brave men die; and Father Felix disappears for all the right reasons." (Kirkus) 159 pp. ISBN: 0-688002854.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87907More details Price: $20.00