New York: Pegasus Books, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this journalist and television documentary producer - "An eye-opening account of the Rwandan civil war and an achingly tender portrait of a family at odds." 343 pp. ISBN: 978-1605986203.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in this Nobel laureate's autobiography - covers her childhood in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949, with the manuscript for her first book - 'The Grass Is Singing' - in her luggage. Frontispiece portrait and 16 pages of photographs. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-060171502.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this Nobel laureate's autobiography - covers her childhood in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949, with the manuscript for her first book - 'The Grass Is Singing' - in her luggage. Frontispiece portrait and 16 pages of photographs. SIGNED by Lessing on the half title page. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-060171502.

New York: Norton, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although Lightner had published many books before this, this novel, notable for its reversal of gender and racial roles, set in a world 500 years after a nuclear world, is the first which garnered her serious attention. Black Africa has survived; the two young women protagonists, sent north on an exploratory mission, discover that the white remnants of UK civilization have evolved into a hive society. 255 pp.

London: Harvill Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth book in the award winning series featuring Inspector Kurt Wallender. Four nuns and another woman - the fifth woman - are killed in a savage nighttime attack in Africa, Months later in Sweden the news of this killing inspires a cruel vengeance..Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Issued in a very small printing in the UK -reportedly just 1000 copies. 438 pp. ISBN: 1860468535.

Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early Wallender novel, originally published in 1993, one which links a murder in Ystad to South Africa where Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. Translated by Laurie Thompson. Numbered 76 out of 90, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by Minette Walters. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. ISBN: 1-873567588.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Israeli author's first novel to appear in English, translated by Marsha Weinstein. "Esther - seventeen years old, wild and rebellious - is sent to live with her hardheaded uncle Sicourelle, who is charged with straightening her out. But Esther resists his plans - which include marriage to a cousin - and in the privileged indolence of postcolonial Africa she looks to the past instead. With sepia portraits and scraps of letters, Esther pieces together the history of her family, a once-grand Egyptian Jewish clan, and its dispersal from Cairo in the 1950's to Israel, Africa, and New York. " Illustrated with photographs at the head of each chapter. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-805048804.

New York: The Viking Press, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a 1979 safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, with text by Matthiessen and full color photographs by Hugo van Lawick portray the people, the land, and the numerous wild animals of one of the world's last great wilderness areas. with accompanying photographs, chronicling their 1979 safari to the Selous Game Reserve of southern Tanzania. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Notes. Slightly oversized format, map endpapers. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670-616966.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012). SIGNED first edition - Great fun! The story of Tarzan as told by the woman who loved him (a young woman who happens to be very much a feminist) - and also the first version of this story written by a woman and authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. SIGNED on the half title page. Glossary of Mangani-English words. Author's note. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780765333599.

London: Panther, (1976). "During the sixties and early seventies Alberto Moravia made five African journeys, which are recorded in this collection of descriptive essays. He observed this vast and complex continent less as a journalist than as a humanist and a traveler." Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-586041621.

New York: Dial Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover - Winner of the 1977 Caldecott Medal. Twenty-six African tribal traditions, celebrations, ceremonies and customs are introduced using the English alphabet with each letter represented by an object from one of the African tribes Illustrated on every page with full-color paintings by the award team of Leo & Diane Dillon. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-80370358.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

New York & London: Addison-Wesley, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of eight Cold War conflicts in which air power played a decisive role, from the Suez Crisis of 1956 to Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, the Falklands war of 1982, and the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. Ilustrated with over 240 photographs and maps, in both full color and black and white. Foreword by Itamar Neuner, a Mirage pilot. Glossary, bibliography, index. Oversized wide format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-1472853578.

San Francisco: Travelers' Tales, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of an unusual quest: "'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.' Brad Newsham was only 22 when he scribbled this note in his journal with 'only an immature sense of the staying power of ideas.' Years later, this casual prophecy came true, and Newsham documents the events that led up to it in . . the story of his 100-day journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, as he seeks just the right person to bring to America." SIGNED on the title page. Double page map, photographs. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-885211511.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts. Glossary, bibliography, index. 284 pp.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages in southeatern Nigeria." Illustrated with maps, figures and photographs. Bibliography, index. xxiv, 344 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 0-295-965754.

Hamburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, 1973. First edition - Text is in German, English and French. The introductory essay by Ludwig Brandl - "A Short History of Ethnomedicine in Tropical Africa" - is in both English and German. Also includes essays on Les Plantes Magiques Senegalaise (in French) by Joseph Kerharo, The Fundamental Basis of African Traditional Medicine (in English) by Yaw Osei and much more. Bibliographies, photographs. 288 pp.

Lusaka: The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1959. First edition - Rhodes- Livingstone Communication No. 15. Introduction by R. J. Apthorpe. In addition to the two articles cited in the title, this also includes a list of the botanical and vernacular names for the plants used in Nkoya medicine. Typescript pages. Map. vii, 77 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the role that powerful masks play in the lives of African people illustrated with the author's bold and vibrant lino cuts. Although written for young readers, this is one of those books that will be appreciated by adult as well - especially anyone with an interest in the masks and tribal cultures of West Africa. Printed throughout in black, tan and red. Notes on the masks. Oversized format, unpaginated.. ISBN: 0-684-160889.

New York: Random House, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exceptionally good debut set in Ghana (where the author was raised), and introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. This novel makes very real the conflicts between traditional beliefs, including witchcraft and "modern" ways. Dawson is a likable and very real protagonist, struggling not just with his job, but living with the knowledge that his young son has a defective heart. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes, glossary. x, 317 pp. ISBN: 9781400067596.

New York: Random House, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exceptionally good debut set in Ghana (where the author was raised), and introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. This novel makes very real the conflicts between traditional beliefs, including witchcraft and "modern" ways. Dawson is a likeable and very real protagonist, struggling not just with his job, but living with the knowledge that his young son has a defective heart. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes, glossary. x, 317 pp. ISBN: 9781400067596.

New York: Random House, (2010). SIGNED - An exceptionally good debut set in Ghana (where the author was raised), and introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. This novel makes very real the conflicts between traditional beliefs, including witchcraft and "modern" ways. Dawson is a likeable and very real protagonist, struggling not just with his job, but living with the knowledge that his young son has a defective heart. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes, glossary. x, 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0812979367.

New York: Soho Crime, (2023). First edition - The third thriller set in Accra, Ghana and featuring private investigator Emma Djan and her colleagues at the Sowah Detective Agency. Glossaries. 328 pp.

New York: Soho Crime, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth atmospheric thriller set in Accra, Ghana and featuring Chief Inspector Darko Dawson, who investigates the brutal murder of a high-society bride, accused of being a witch before her death. "In order to expose the truth, Darko must confront the pivotal role religion plays in Ghana - and wrestle with his old demons the investigation stirs up." SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 257 pp. ISBN: 978-1616957087.

New York Dial Books. (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of young Prince Rakoto who learns to cope with his father's death by visiting the Wise Woman. Set in nineteenth century Malagasy. Illustrated with watercolors by E.B Lewis. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-8037-14602.