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WITH BOOKS ON HER HEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Meredith Press, (1967.). Hardcover first edition - Story for older children set in a small village in Northern Liberia: a young girl does not want to be the #5 wife of the chief but wants to school like her brother. Illustrated by Charles Keeping. Chandler is probably best known for the Cowboy Sam series. 154 pp.
Condition: Very good (stamp of school district on title page, address label on endpaper, but overall very tight and clean), lacking the dj.
Book ID: 47588More details Price: $12.50 -
THE IVORY CROCODILE.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young white American woman whose "longing to know Africa" has unexpected consequences. The author's first book, a collection of short stories, was a NY Times Notable Book of the year, and this, her first novel, is based on her years of living in several countries of Africa as a child, and on her own experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer there. ISBN: 1-56689-042x.
Condition: Very near fine in a somewhat rubbed, but near fine dustjacket (abrasion on the back cover of the dj.)
Book ID: 14717More details Price: $19.00 -
THE IVORY CROCODILE.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a young white American woman whose "longing to know Africa" has unexpected consequences. The author's first book, a collection of short stories, was a NY Times Notable Book of the year, and this, her first novel, is based on her years of living in several countries of Africa as a child, and on her own experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer there. ISBN: 1-56689-042x.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31506More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LAUGHING MONSTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A short but powerful novel by this award-winning writer. Two men, who had once made a lot of illicit cash from diamonds, reunite in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with Michaels fianc along for the adventure. Partly this in the hope of making another illicit fortune, but even more it is because of Michael's desperate search for his long-lost village in the Uganda-Congo borderland -a land "abandoned by the future." 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0374280598.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 83082More details Price: $18.50 -
AFRICAN TRIO: Talatala, Tropical Moon, Aboard the Aquitaine.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three novels of psychological suspense, set in a colonial Africa nearing its end, originally published in 1943, 1933 and 1933. Translated from French by Stuart Gilbert, Paul Auster, and Lydia Davis. vii, 325 pp. Striking dust jacket design by Milton Glaser. ISBN: 0-15-1039550.
Condition: Near fine in dusty rose boards with a black cloth spine in a very near fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant.).
Book ID: 87395More details Price: $35.00 -
DEATH IS A DRUM . . BEATING FOREVER.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Crime Club by Doubleday, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring Dr. Quarshie, set in West Africa. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-385127839.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, but with a slanted spine, in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 78051More details Price: $13.50
