Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories which make the voices of the African laborers and the Afrikaaners come alive. From the dustjacket: "Violence comes in many forms, not all of them bloody. These extraordinarily moving stories from South Africa report not on the violence of the evening news but on the quiet anguish and brutality suffered by all the nation's inhabitants, both black and white.". 134 pp. ISBN: 0-395432960.

Boston: McDougal Littell. (1997.). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Literature Connections series: in addition to the novel by Head (the first novel of this South African writer, the story of a South African refugee who finds a new life in a small village in Botswana), this includes stories by Grace Ogot, Nadine Gordimer, and Liam O'Flaherty, memoirs by Peter Abrahams and Dan Butterworth and poems by Alonzo Lopez and Anna Akhmaatova. While most of the selections are from Africa - by white, black and 'colored' writers - others are chosen to represent the universality of the themes. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-395-775469.

London: Heinemann Educational Books, (1976). Hardcover first edition - "The English tradition in the literature of southern Africa reflects the turbulent history of the past 150 years. From its 19th century origins to the present day, the work of South African writers like Olive Schreiner, Roy Campbell, Peter Abrahams, Nadine Gordimer, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Dennis Brutus, Athol Fugard, and many others has gained international acclaim." Includes articles by Alan Paton, Gordimer, Oswald Mtshali, Arthur Ravenscroft (on Bessie Head) and many others. Index. xv, 192 pp. ISBN: 0-435913409.

Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann, (1984). First edition - A comprehensive survey on the novels, poetry and drama of East Africa. Includes essays on the literature of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and more, and on the works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah, Meja Mwangi and others. Contributors include Ismael Mbise, John Reed, L. A. Mbughuni. Bibliography, index. x, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-435916718.

Pasadena, CA: Nepotist Books, (1998.). SIGNED first edition - "A novel of heart stopping suspense" set in modern Nigeria. The title means a child that was born to die - INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - - - for your pursuit of achievable happiness" and dated 1-30-99. Winner of the 1995 Phi Kappa Phi Prize for Fiction, USC. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-9668772-84.

Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - Described as the first comprehensive study of the African novel, illustrating what is particularly different about African fiction and showing that the Western literary is irrelevant to the contributions being made by modern African writers - including Chinua Achebe and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria), James Ngugi (Kenya), Peter Abrahams (South Africa), Camara Laye (Guinea) and others. Foreword by Newton P. Stallknecht. Map frontispiece. Notes, selected bibliography, index. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-253-319455.

New York: Reader's International, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Gerald Moore. A brilliant & ferocious burlesque of the supreme African dictator by this Congolese writer, winner of the French Grand Prix Litteraire de l'Afrique Noire.

Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017. First edition - An award-winning debut - "The year is 1750. As he makes his way to the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom, Kintu Kidda unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. As the centuries pass, the tale moves down the bloodline, exploring the lives of four of Kintu Kidda's descendants. . . Blending Ganda oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has brought to life an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters to produce a powerful epic and a modern classic." First published in Kenya in 2014, winner of the Kwani Manuscript Prize, longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African fiction. Introduction by Aaron Bady. viii, 443 pp.

New York: Norton, 1985. Photographs. ISBN: 0-393-302903.

New York: Crown, (1996). Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - a novel "written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, . . reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, Zenzele tells the tales of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence and the men and women who shaped it: Zenzele's father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy." Small format. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-517702428.

Washington, D.C.: Black Orpheus Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover - One of the greatest works to come out of colonial Africa, this is also one of the first novels to depict Africans as they really were, and to reveal the smoldering hatred of the African and the white colonialists for each other. Originally published in 1921 in France, it won the Prix Goncourt in 1922 (Maran was the first Black writer to win this award). In 1938, the definitive edition was published in France, and this is the first US appearance of a translation of that edition. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou. Introduction by Donald E. Herdeck and a preface to the 1938 edition by Maran. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-87953-006.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Hardcover first edition - One of the greatest works to come out of colonial Africa, this is also one of the first novels to depict Africans as they really were, and to reveal the smoldering hatred of the African and the white colonialists for each other. Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1922 (Maran was the first Black writer to win this award). Translated from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-87953-006.

New York: Random House, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning Cameroon-born author, set in the fictional village of Kosawa in an unnamed African country where "a battle is raging: On one side, the citizens of this once-idyll. On the other, the mammoth oil company Pexton, which has, over generations, polluted the village's water and air and ground and, through its malfeasance, killed a growing number of its children. With smooth prose from a number of narrators among the villagers, this tells the multi-generational saga of one small village's battle not just against one corporation and the dictator who profits from its avarice, but against neocolonialism itself." (NPR) 360 pp. ISBN: 978-0593132425.

New York: Macmillan, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel, and fifth book, by this South African born writer - who, like the main character in this novel, was forced to leave South Africa, and taught for several years in Nigeria. A powerful story about outcasts on their own continent, Africans both black and white, in search of a home they cannot find. Striking dustjacket design by digeorge.

New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1971. First edition - Growing Up in a South African Ghetto - The first US publication of this autobiography of a black South African "describing the struggle for human dignity in the quagmire of poverty, violence and apartheid" originally published in 1959. Includes a long introduction by the author. xxvi, 210 pp.

New York: The Third Press / Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of poems by this South African, a Zulu born in Natal, who lived in Soweto, and wrote in English. Foreword by Nadine Gordimer. Illustrated with drawings 79 pp. ISBN: 0-89388-0345.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly acclaimed writer from Zaire, and his first work of fiction to be published in the US. Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. Foreword by Jacques Howlett. Author's note. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-671-675664.

Longman, (1994m c 1986). Collects 15 stories by some of South Africa's best writers including Alex La Guma, Bessie Head and others, edited and with an introduction by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane. A title in the Longman African Writers series. Notes on contributors, select bibliography. xxvi 162 pp. ISBN: 0-582785901.

New York & London: Reader's International, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this young South African writer, a collection of 5 stories that deal with the hardships of life in the urban townships of South Africa. Originally published in South Africa, where it was the winner of the s1984 NOMA Award, the continent's highest literary award. ISBN: 0-930523-199.

New York: St Martin's, 1986. Exiled South African writer's first novel, a story of apartheid. Praise from Coetze & Gordimer.

New York: St Martin's, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Exiled South African writer's first novel, a story of apartheid - a young black man facing execution for the 'rape' of a white woman looks back on the events leading to these last few days of his life Praise from Coetze & Gordimer (who referred to his 'awesome passion.. depth of feeling, the authority of experience and the skill to sustain it.'). ISBN: 0-312-522959.

New York: St Martin's, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Exiled South African writer's first novel, a story of apartheid - a young black man facing execution for the 'rape' of a white woman looks back on the events leading to these last few days of his life Praise from Coetze & Gordimer (who referred to his 'awesome passion.. depth of feeling, the authority of experience and the skill to sustain it.'). ISBN: 0-312-522959.

Nairobi, Kenya: Modern African Library/East African Publishing House, (1968). First edition - Collection of poetry by this writer who was born in northern Uganda. Illustrated by E. Christensson. Glossary. 104 pp.

(Nairobi, Kenya): East African Publishing House, (1966.). First edition - Edited by Cynthia Hunter and Robin Fawcett. Illustrated with single color pictures (blue, red, green, etc.) by Terry Hirst. The author's second book for children, stories collected when she was a child living near Lake Nyanza in Kenya. East African Junior Library No. 2. An appealing small booklet, written at a level for a young child just beginning to read English. 44 pp.

(Nairobi, Kenya): East African Publishing House, (1966.). First edition - Edited by Cynthia Hunter and Robin Fawcett. Illustrated with single color pictures (blue, red, green, etc.) by Terry Hirst. The author's first book for children, stories collected when she was a child living near Lake Nyanza in Kenya. East African Junior Library No. 1. An appealing small booklet, written at a level for a young child just beginning to read English. 44 pp.