New York: Anchor Books, 1988. A novel of contemporary Africa, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of contemporary Africa by this Nigerian writer. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-385-016646.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2015). First edition - A beautifully written and very moving account of the sudden death of her husband by this noted African American poet - and also a picture of a rich and loving marriage. Ficre Ghebreyesus, born in Eritrea and a refuge from the war there, was known both as a gifted artist and a creative chef, when he died at just 50. 209 pp.

Chicago: OV Books / Other Voices, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories by 30 authors from the US and elswhere - from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, some published for the first time in the United States. Foreword by Aimee Liu. Contributors include Nathan Englander, Laila Lalami, Ana Menendez, Josip Novakovich, Wanda Coleman, Tony d'Souza, Samrat Upadhyay, Mary Yukari Waters, Luis Alfaro, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rashad Majid, Carolyn Alessio, Diane Lefer, Amanda Eyre Ward, and many others. SIGNED by FOUR contributors - Three on the title page: Stacy Bierlein, Aimee Liu and Laila Lalami and Viet Thanh Nguyen at his story 'The Professor's Office.' Notes on contributors. xx, 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0976717737.

North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 16 folktales from the nine main tribes of Ethopia, illustrated with woodcuts by Helen Siegl. A revised version of a book originally published in 1959. Afterword, glossary. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-208024298.

Basel, Switzerland: Editiones Roche, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Bilingual edition with the text printed in two columns - English on the left and French on the right. Edition bilingue avec le texte imprime en deux colonnes - anglais a gauche et franais a droite. Illustrated with full color full page botanical paintings by Amon Aya Lazare. Index of common names and local names. Bibliography. 151 pp. ISBN: 5-907946596.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the US and Liberia during the years 1975-1991 - the story, told in the first person, of a woman, a member of the Weather Underground, who fled to Liberia and became involved in both the politics of that country and in the struggle to save endangered chimpanzees. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0197358.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the US and Liberia during the years 1975-1991 - the story, told in the first person, of a woman, a member of the Weather Underground, who fled to Liberia and became involved in both the politics of that country and in the struggle to save endangered chimpanzees. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0197358.

San Francisco: MacAdam / Cage, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this African American writer, set in a war-torn former British colony in West Africa, this is based, in part, on his Peace Corps experience in Sierra Leone. The story of a man who returns to this devastation in search of a woman and infant - his son - whom he had left behind 16 years ago, this was described as a 'harrowing and compelling' debut. 202 pp. ISBN: 1-931561605.

San Francisco: MacAdam / Cage, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this African American writer, set in a war-torn former British colony in West Africa, this is based, in part, on his Peace Corps experience in Sierra Leone. The story of a man who returns to this devastation in search of a woman and infant - his son - whom he had left behind 16 years ago, this was described as a 'harrowing and compelling' debut. 202 pp. ISBN: 1931561605.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014). First edition - The first novel (second book) by this young writer from Sierra Leone - at its center are two long time friends who return to their hometown in Africa after a devastating civil war, and attempt to forge a new community. 240 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An incredible first hand memoir on how war looks to a child soldier - at the age of 13, he was involved in the fighting in Sierra Leone, but at 16, he was removed by UNICEF. Chronology. 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0374105235.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel (second book) by this young writer from Sierra Leone - at its center are two long time friends who return to their hometown in Africa after a devastating civil war, and attempt to forge a new community. ISBN: 978-0374246020.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The first novel (second book) by this young writer from Sierra Leone - at its center are two long time friends who return to their hometown in Africa after a devastating civil war, and attempt to forge a new community. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2013, before publication. 240 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a novel which follows the story of Jean Patrick Nkuba "from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his countrys first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent for his people." Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (awarded every other year). SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 365 pp. ISBN: 978-1616200428.

New York: Morrow, (1991.). First edition - Novel of a young woman from England who has found a refuge, alone, at Brazzaville Beach on "the edge of Africa." Winner of the 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize; on the Booker long list. 316 pp. Cover art by Thomas Woodriff

New York: Morrow, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young woman from England who has found a refuge, alone, at Brazzaville Beach on "the edge of Africa." Winner of the 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize; on the Booker long list. 316 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-688103634.

New York: Morrow, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young woman from England who has found a refuge, alone, at Brazzaville Beach on "the edge of Africa." Winner of the 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize; on the Booker long list. 316 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-688103634.

Chicago: Third World Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of fourteen poems by the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. A slim chapbook. 32 pp. Cover painting by Anna Tyler. ISBN: 0-88378-0550.

London: Thos. Cook & Son, 1921. Hardcover - With nine maps (Eight large folding maps plus one in the pocket at the rear), and 182 illustrations in the text and two in the supplement. Includes a 28 page 1925 supplement bound in at the front, which focuses on the recent discovery and opening of King Tutankhamen's tomb, but also includes other recent excavations in Egypt and the Sudan; Egypt in 1924-25 and the Sudan in 1923-25. Index, advertisements. 28, vv, 956 pp.

New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1966I dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim collection of poems. "earthily anecdotal in style" by one of the leading English-speaking poets in the Republic of South Africa at the time. Table of contents. Introduction by William Plomer; illustrations by John Lawrence. 32 pp.

New York: M.S. Mill Company, Inc. & William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who, although born in England, lived in Africa for many years. "A novel of adventure and suspense. . . in a haunting setting," the Makarikari Salt Plains in the Kalahari Desert. 191 pp.

New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. First edition - Includes "Kwame Nkrumah: African Liberator" by Shirley Graham Du Bois; "African Perspectives: New dimensions of an Old Subject." by John Henrik Clarke; Internationalism in the Black Community" by Robert Rhodes; "The Afro-Asian Writers' Movement" by Akram Aminov; and more. Book reviews and a listing of recent books on Africa. Cover illustration by James Calvin. 180-264 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (1987.). Epic novel set in 1797 in the African kingdom of Segu during the time of the slave trade and the coming of Islam. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Based on actual events, this is an authentic and gripping story by this noted Guadaloupean author, a descendant of the Bambara herself. Cover praise from Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou and others. Maps. 493 pp. ISBN: 0-345-353064.

New York: Dutton, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Map frontispiece, illustrated with many line drawings and photographs by the author recording his travels in more than 20 African countries "in search of African Art." 271 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, an intricate literary thriller - Zane is "an American in Paris, where he unravels coded computer messages for an agency that clandestinely monitors civil wars, terrorism and human rights abuses worldwide. Haunted by thoughts of his mother, a jailed '60s radical, Zane desperately seeks three men: a Nigerian poet turned fanatic revolutionary, an English colleague who has disappeared in Africa, and a Swedish doctor who assists mercenaries in "humane" forms of torture. . . The action shifts from a Parisian jazz club to Nigeria and then to Mali" (PW) SIGNED on the half title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-394581075.