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TEA IN THE HAREM.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Serpent's Tail, (1989.). First edition - Algerian-born author's first novel, one that explores the conflict between growing up in an Arab family on the outskirts of Paris and wanting to be accepted as French. The first and best of the 'beur' novels (slang for 'Arab.'), translated from the French by Ed Emery. Basis for the prize winning movie of the same name (winner of the Prix Jean Vigo Award for best first film at Cannes.) 157 pp. ISBN: 1-852421517.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers with French flaps. (crease to lower corner of front cover, usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 68603More details Price: $17.50 -
TAMRART: 13 Days in the Sahara.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Stuart Wright, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a trip by camel into the Sahara to climb the Hoggar mountains of southern Algeria, joining a caravan to Tamanrasset, where the Touareg nomads gave her the name of Tamrart Ð meaning dominant female. Illustrated with drawings by Lily Hamlin. Although Clark's career as a writer was eclipsed by that of her husband, Robert Penn Warren, her writing, and especially her evocative travel accounts, have been highly praised. Clark and Warren were the only couple where both were awarded the National Book Award for separate works. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page "with lots of love, good wishes, admiration" and dated in the year of publication. 106 pp. ISBN: 0-913773-158.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 64580More details Price: $50.00 -
FREEDOMWAYS; Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 9, no. 4, Fourth Quarter, 1969.
Edition: First printing, a magazine.
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. First edition - Includes A Selected Bibliography on Mexican Americans and Native Americans by Ernest Kaiser; Chief Joseph and His People by John Henrik Clarke; a selection of cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, Jr; poetry by Mari Evans, Eric Burroughs and others, book reviews and more. pp 295-384. Cover art by Elizabeth Catlett.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light university library stamp on front cover, no other markings).
Book ID: 79342More details Price: $30.00 -
BAAL, CHRIST, AND MOHAMMED: Religion and Revolution in North Africa.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - An attempt to understand why Islam and the Arabic culture have been so much more successful in establishing a solid culture in North Africa - an overview of "the main themes in the relationship between religious faith, alien imperialism and the native Berber revolutionary spirit." Illustrated with maps drawn by Charles McDonnell including one of the Phoenician colonies 1000 B.C.-700 B.C., of Christian North Africa and Roman empire about A.D. 400, and Moslem North Africa and the Middle East, and of European colonization. Glossary of Arabic terms, sources and biblography. xiv, 369 pp, Map of pagan North Africa [Graeco-Roman] on endpapers.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean, no dj. Front flap of dj tipped onto blank rear paper.
Book ID: 38892More details Price: $12.00 -
RACING THROUGH THE TALL GRASS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 67002More details Price: $25.00 -
THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED.
Edition: Early or first trade paperback.
New York: Orion, (1968). First English language publication of this classic book which explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike, originally written in 1957 before the Algerian war. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Includes a new preface by the author and a new dedication to "the American Negro, also colonized." Translated from the French by Howard Greenfeld (Sartre's introduction was translated by Lawrence Hoey.) xxix, 153 pp plus colophon.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 79277More details Price: $20.00 -
FANON.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - Disguised as the project of a contemporary African American novelist named Thomas, Wideman creates a fictional portrait of the life of Frantz Fanon, philosopher, psychiatrist, political activist, and author of The Wretched of the Earth - one which chronicles Fanon's life, from his Martinique upbringing through the publication of his influential work and his legacy in a post-9/11 world. 227 pp. ISBN: 978-0618942633.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83260More details Price: $18.50 -
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION: Men-at-Arms Series.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc. (1973.). First edition - Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions of old engravings and drawings, plus a section of eight full color plates by Michael Roffe. A title in the "Men-at-Arms Series" a very high quality, accurate and attractively produced and well-illustrated series of slightly oversized, but slim, trade paperbacks, measuring 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall, bound in glossy illustrated white covers (heavy cardstock) and printed on good quality paper. 40 pp. ISBN: 0-88254-1609.
Condition: Near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (prev owner's embossed seal).
Book ID: 38592More details Price: $16.00