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UNFEELING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Toronto: Key Porter Books, (2007). First edition - The author's first book, set in a post-independent African country during the farm attacks At 16, Davey's placid life is destroyed when his parents are murdered and his family farm reclaimed; although the neighbors and his aunt try to help, one night Davey escapes from his boarding school, determined on revenge. Shortlisted for the 2006 Dylan Thomas prize. 243 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 83211More details Price: $15.00 -
A GUEST OF HONOUR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long and complex political novel by this Nobel laureate- one which explores the role of revolutionary ideas in the then new African states, but mostly from the viewpoint of an English liberal, the title figure of this novel, a man who had been expelled by the British colonial office for siding with the nationalist movement who has now been invited back for the independence celebrations. Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Britain in 1971. 504 pp. ISBN: 0-670356549.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79965More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.
Edition: First printing.
Edinburgh: Polygon, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. SIGNED on the title page. 233 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 1-904598633.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78070More details Price: $28.50 -
IN THE COMPANY OF CHEERFUL LADIES.
Edition: First printing.
Edinburgh: Polygon, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the HBO series. 231 pp. ISBN: 1-904598064.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77344More details Price: $30.00 -
TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Basis for the HBO series. 212 pp. ISBN: 978-0-375424496.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76929More details Price: $15.00 -
BLACK LEOPARD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, an environmental and political thriller, set in a deceptively stable nation of Terre Diamantee, a former Belgian colony in West Africa, and using the author's experience as US Foreign Service officer in the Ivory Coast to make the background realistic. . Dvaid Trowbridge, an American field biologist is trying to track the elusive leopard in the rain forest - but then three murders occur at the forest station - -and he is ambushed also. Review copy with publisher's material, author's photo laid in. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-679447024.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76268More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SECOND COMING OF MAVALA SHIKONGO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (2006.). First edition - First novel (second book) by this highly acclaimed young writer - set in Namibia in Africa. Notes. 310 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65418More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DAY OF CREATION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in "the parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa" where in front of the doctor struggling to bring water to the area, an apparent miracle occurs. As a tractor gouges the ground for an airstrip, "water bubbles to the surface, first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood. and a sizeable river seems to be forming." A combination of speculative and realistic fiction. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-88619-1815.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65033More details Price: $17.50 -
TO ASMARA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Warner, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the war torn horn of Africa by this Australian writer. A Western journalist, along with several others, makes a trip into the mountains of Eritrea to the rebel base there SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1995. Map., 290 pp. ISBN: 0-88619-2382.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58804More details Price: $35.00 -
CANNIBAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New York University Press, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers. Described as a 'haunting story of survival' this is set in Africa (Svoboda had spent a year in the Sudan as a documentary film-maker) A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- for their belief in their godson, and Art." and signed simply Terese. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-8147-80121.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58639More details Price: $40.00 -
TO ASMARA.
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the war torn horn of Africa by this Australian writer. A Western journalist, along with several others, makes a trip into the mountains of Eritrea to the rebel base there 290 pp. ISBN: 0-88619-2382.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57616More details Price: $16.50 -
IN THE COMPANY OF CHEERFUL LADIES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Basis for the HBO series. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-375422714.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56939More details Price: $15.00 -
STALKING IVORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring the unconventional American adventuress and photojournalist, Jade Del Cameron, set in Africa in the early 1920's. SIGNED on the title page with an elephant drawing by author .340 pp Map frontispiece. Author's notes. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-451-220264.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning/yellowing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 55992More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LEOPARD'S PREY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Obsidian - New American Library - NAL, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring the unconventional American adventuress and photojournalist, Jade Del Cameron, set in Africa in the early 1920's. Author's notes. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780451225863.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 54362More details Price: $18.00 -
RICHER THAN ALL HIS TRIBE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel to be set on the fictitious island of Pharamaul off the coast of Africa. 372 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 54077More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DAY OF CREATION.
Edition: First Canadian printing.
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in "the parched, diseased, impoverished terrain of central Africa" where in front of the doctor struggling to bring water to the area, an apparent miracle occurs. As a tractor gouges the ground for an airstrip, "water bubbles to the surface, first a trickle, but soon a powerful flood. and a sizeable river seems to be forming." A combination of speculative and realistic fiction. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-88619-1815.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (stain to bottom edge of textblock, tear to rear cover of dj.)
Book ID: 53761More details Price: $16.50 -
MISTER JOHNSON.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time-Life Books, (1981.). Reprint of Cary's greatest novel with a new introduction by V. S. Pritchett and an editor's preface. xv, 300 pp,
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51690More details Price: $10.00 -
THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Basis for the HBO series. 214 pp. ISBN: 9780375424489.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50448More details Price: $15.00 -
TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tenth novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Basis for the HBO series. 212 pp. ISBN: 9780375424496.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (tear to dj at side of spine.)
Book ID: 50447More details Price: $12.50 -
THE KALAHARI TYPING SCHOOL FOR MEN,
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED bookplate pasted onto front endpaper. Fourth novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-37542217X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49370More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HARBINGER EFFECT.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). First edition - Her second novel, an international espionage thriller which begins when a Soviet photojournalist sneaks into an American embassy in West Africa asking for asylum. 322 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 48946More details Price: $15.00 -
THE COUP.
Edition: 2nd printing (before publication.)
New York: Random House, 1978. dj. Hardcover - Novel describing the violent events in an imaginary land-locked, drought-ridden sub-Saharan African country. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-394-50268x.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to back edge, rubbing.)
Book ID: 48425More details Price: $14.50 -
AFTER ROY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's offbeat and quirky second novel: 'a chimp story, a love story, a celebration of free and fluent living.' 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-580249.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48042More details Price: $16.00 -
GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-375-422737.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 44540More details Price: $15.00 -
BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-375-422722.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44539More details Price: $12.50 -
AN OBVIOUS ENCHANTMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set mostly on an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa. Dustjacket praise by Peter Matthiessen who called it "An exciting, intelligently imagined story." 404 pp. ISBN: 0-375-504095.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43849More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FULL CUPBOARD OF LIFE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-375422188.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43192More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FARTHER SHORE.
Edition: First printing.
[Minneapolis]: Milkweed Editions, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. "When a small unit of soldiers are stranded and left to fend for themselves in hostile territory, their only option is to keep moving, to evade the gangs and tribesmen who rule the streets. As the soldiers wander, they encounter a series of chilling and surreal visions that will test their skills and their sanity." Set in Mogadishu in Somalia, amid famine, bombs, gun and death. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-571310576.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39760More details Price: $25.00 -
CARPENTER'S GOTHIC.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38647More details Price: $25.00 -
THE TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Anchor Books, (2002.). Novel set in Gamborone, the capital of Botswana and featuring Precious Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 227 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-31354.
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 38472More details Price: $10.00
