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A QUESTION OF SLAVERY,
Edition: First US printing.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Labour policies in Portuguese Africa and the British protest, 1850-1920. In Mozambique and Angola, despite well-intentioned legislation, a form of slavery existed until well into the 20th century - this weakened Portugal in relation to her other colonial neighbors, and kept her embroiled in controversy with the British government and a group of British humanitarians. Maps, index. 240 pp.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (chipping to the upper edge.)
Book ID: 24723More details Price: $30.00 -
NJINGA "THE WARRIOR QUEEN" (The Thinking Girls Treasury of Dastardly Dames)
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58189More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
LIFE SENTENCES: Rage and Survival Behind Bars.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Times Books, (1992). A graphic portrait of life inside one of America's largest prisons - the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, written by the prisoners themselves for The Angolite. the award winning prison magazine. In his NY Times Review, Russell Banks said that this should be ". . .required reading for all fifty United States governors and for all present and future Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates...the most convincing argument I have read against our nationwide desire to deal with lawbreakers by 'locking 'em up and throwing away the key'." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-812920481.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83866More details Price: $16.50 -
TATU AND THE HONEY BIRD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of the woodlands in Angola, West Africa, the land where the author spent her childhood. This story of Tatu, who would rather be free to cause mischief than to go to school, and of his sister Lovola, who is not allowed to go because she is 'only a girl' is illustrated with soft sepia toned drawings by Dale Payson. ISBN: 0-399-607560.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards with a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13794More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WORLD OF 'MESTRE' TAMODA.
Edition: First English language printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Reader's International, 1984. First edition - Novel originally published in 1974 by this Angolian writer and revolutionary leader, who was imprisoned by the Portuguese for more than a decade. ISBN: 0-930523-431.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 20491More details Price: $10.00