New York: Park Row Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel. Set in Kenya in the 1990s, this follows three women and the connections between them - one is an American anthropologist who has just given birth to her first child, the second is a lonely expat wife, and the third is a Maasai woman who is unable to bear children of her own. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp.

Guileford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Pulitzer Prize winning author on nature, travel and adventure, from Alaska to Cuba, from the Khyber Pass to Kenya in Africa, originally published in 2004. This is a special reprinted edition, SIGNED by the author on the front free-end paper. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0762796519.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Chief Inspector James Odhiambo of Kenya, who finds himself investigating a murder on the Cornish coast of England where he was attending a seminar. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-136439.

New York: The Viking Press, (1967). Hardcover first edition - Stories told by the peoples who live near the Northern shore of Lake Nyanza - or Lake Victoria. Illustrated with black and white drawings by George Ford. 185 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1999. First edition - Described as the last unpublished manuscript of Hemingway, this was written in 1953 after returning from safari in Kenya. Edited and with an introduction by his son, Patrick Hemingway, who accompanied him on that safari. Cast of characters, Swahili glossary, 315 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (1991). First edition - In 1988, Julie Ward, a young English photographer visiting Africa, disappeared and was later found murdered in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve. Although the Kenyan government attempted to cover it up by insisting that she was killed by wild animals, her father, John Ward, was determined to learn what had really happened to his daughter. 362 pp. Photocopies of several articles laid in.

New York & London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the African revolutions by a journalist who had been living in and reporting from Africa since 1946. Describes events in the Congo, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopa and more - and includes information on the African leaders - Kasavubu, Toure, Tshombe, Lumumba, Kenyatta and Nkrumah. Map endpapers. Index. 296 pages.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1939.). Hardcover - Vintage copy of this mystery surrounding the death of a Nazi, set in Kenya on the eve of World War II, featuring Superintendent Vachol. Originally published in Great Britain under the title "Death of an Aryan." Includes a fair amount of information on various arrow poisons. 279 pp.

New York: Viking, (1988) dj. Hardcover - Mystery originally published in 1939, a story of the events surrounding the death of a Nazi, set in Kenya on the eve of World War II, featuring Superintendent Vachol. Originally published in Great Britain under the title "Death of an Aryan." Includes a fair amount of information on various arrow poisons. 214 pp.

London: Penguin, (1974). Classic story of growing up on a coffee plantation in Kenya in the early years of the 20th century. Illustrated. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-140018151.

London: Secker & Warburg, (1955.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive account of the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, a trial which took 5 months in the winter of 1952-53, on charges of being the leader of Kenya's Mau-Mau. Index of incidents. 255 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1964) dj. Collects twenty-five short stories by African writers from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Sierra Leona, all of whom are writing in English, including Chinua Achebe, Christiana Aidoo, Cyprian Ekwensi, Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Ngugi wa Thiong'o ([)James Ngugi), Grace A. Ogot, Gabriel Okara, Amos Tutuola (Amos Olatubosun Tutuola), Can Themba (Daniel Canodoise Themba) and more. Edited and with an introduction by Ghanaian writer Ellis Ayitey Komey and South African writer Ezekiel] Mphahlele. 227 pp.

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: Ballantine, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "Cutting edge science and the logic of game theory combine to form an utterly original novel of suspense." An expert in animal behavior, James Fieldhead wants to test a new device that may offer the key to understanding human emotions. Oxford student Ben Ashurst agrees to participate in the study, at a luxury resort on a pristine beach in Kenya, only to find himself ensnared in layer upon layer of deception. SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. ISBN: 9780345440228.

New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of this English-born Kenyan aviator who became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and its first female bush pilot. In 1936, she became the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America - against the headwinds. Shortly before her death, Lovell was able to interview Markham, and they become friends.Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 408 pp. ISBN: 0-312010966.

New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of this English-born Kenyan aviator who became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and its first female bush pilot. In 1936, she became the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America - against the headwinds. Shortly before her death, Lovell was able to interview Markham, and they become friends.Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 408 pp. ISBN: 0-312010966.

London, Ibadan and Nairobi: William Heinemann, (1982). A collection of essays by this Kenyan author, one of the greatest African writers of his time, on literature, education and the struggle for national culture as well as on writers and politics and against political repression. A title in the African Writers Series. Index. xi, 142 pp. ISBN: 0-43591751X.

New York: Pantheon, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--"A magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature" by this exiled Kenyan writer. "Commencing in 'our times' and set in the 'Free Republic of Aburlria,' the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburlrian people." Translated from the Gikuyu by the author. 766 pp. ISBN: 0-37542248X.

Nairobi & London: Heinemann, (1984). A non-fiction account of his imprisonment in Kenya in 1977 without charges being filed or a trial and about the deliberate humiliation and degradation imposed on political prisoners. While in prison, the novel he wrote in Gikuyi (later published in English as 'Devil on the Cross') was seized from him, although later returned. A title in the African Writers series under the editorship of Chinua Achebe. 228 pp. plus a 4 pp appendix. ISBN: 0-435-902407.

Nairobi & London: Heinemann, (1984). On the surface the story of a suspenseful investigation of a puzzling triple murder in upcountry Kenya, this emerges as a devastating picture of a modern third world country whose frustrated people feel that their leaders have failed them. Just months after it appeared in Africa, its author was imprisoned without charges being filed or a trial. A title in the African Writers series under the editorship of Chinua Achebe. 340 pp. . ISBN: 0-435-901885.

London: Heinemann, (ca 1992, c 1986). SIGNED - A title in the African Writers Series under the editorship of Chinua Achebe, originally published in 1967. Novel about Kenya on the verge of independence. This was recently named as one of the 12 best African books of the 20th century by a panel of 16 African scholars at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, and many feel that Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have already received the Nobel Prize for literature. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-435-908367.

London: Heinemann, (ca 1998, c 1986). SIGNED - A title in the African Writers Series under the editorship of Chinua Achebe, originally published in 1967. A novel about Kenya on the verge of independence which was named as one of the 12 best African books of the 20th century by a panel of 16 African scholars at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. Many feel that Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have received the Nobel Prize for literature. SIGNED on the title page and scarce thus. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-435-908367.

London: Heinemann, (1988). SIGNED - His moving first novel about the devastating effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya, effects which both he and his family experienced.. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the African Writers series and the first novel to be published by an East African author writing in English (Ngugi later only wrote in his native Giyuki, but translated his books into English himself) Scarce signed in any edition. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-435-908308.

Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, Kampala: East African Literature Bureau, (1974). First edition - A synthesis of the oral research and literature in an outline of the pre-colonial history of Kenyas Nyanza region, tracing the socio-political evolution and migrations of Luo, Gusii, and Kuria communities. The analysis concludes with the establishment of British rule in 1914. Maps, index. 104 pp.

Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1977. First edition - A Special Issue of the Kenya Historical Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1977 with twelve articles on the topic, and an introduction by Bethwell A. Ogot. Slightly oversized trade paperback. pp 169-403.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a young girl who learns something of Masai culture and of how to cure her own lonliness when she goes with her father to Kenya, and he brings back a young girl who needs a heart operation. Beautifully illustrated in full color by Stan Mullins. Inspired by the work of the Heart To Heart Foundation. 30 pp. ISBN: 1-56145-093-6.

New York: Hyperion, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - A young boy and a Masai join forces in Kenya as Jake tries to find his father who is researching the elephants there, and the Masai is trying to end the drought - and together they succeed in stopping the poachers who are killing elephants for their tusks. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page. 250 pp.

London: Inkululeko Publications, 1973. First edition - Cover article is Southern Africa on the March. Also includes Alex La Guma on North Vietnam, articles on Uganda, Kenya and Namibia and more. Illustrated with maps and photographs, includes book reviews. 126 pp. We have many other issues of this journal available.