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THROUGH BLACK EYES: Journeys of A Black Artist To East Africa and Russia.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Fax's trips first to African - to Uganda, Northern Sudan, Ethopia, Tanzania - and then to Moscow and the then Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. "In each of these exotic areas, so different in many respects, he was to find the history of oppression by colonialism, as it had occurred in similar ways among his own people at home. Everywhere he went the artist in Elton Fax recorded with beautiful drawings, even as the text did in words, what he saw with his own discerning eyes to produce a fascinating parts of the world." Illustrated with drawings by the author/artist. Index. x, 203 pp. ISBN: 0-396068421.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tears to dj, minor edgewear)
Book ID: 61477More details Price: $35.00 -
BURY ME IN AFRICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Vantage Press, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes both an account of a trip to Dar Es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, by this Colorado writer and a selection of her protest poems. 55 pp. ISBN: 0-533-031230.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (small chip to back cover of dj, one closed tear.) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 50953More details Price: $25.00 -
MEMORY OF DEPARTURE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tanzanian author's first novel, a bitter but poetic and haunting coming of age story set in a squalid seaport in East Africa. When it appeared in England, the Times called it "159 pages of sheer joy and magic. The story is deceptively simple..." In 2021, Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." 159 pp. Striking dust jacket design by Bascove. ISBN: 0-8021-10185.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83978More details Price: $500.00 -
SAND RIVERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a 1979 safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, with text by Matthiessen and full color photographs by Hugo van Lawick portray the people, the land, and the numerous wild animals of one of the world's last great wilderness areas. with accompanying photographs, chronicling their 1979 safari to the Selous Game Reserve of southern Tanzania. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Notes. Slightly oversized format, map endpapers. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670-616966.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some tiny tears, knicks to dj edges)
Book ID: 64863More details Price: $50.00 -
FOUR AFRICAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1970.) dj. Hardcover - Includes an overview of African political history and a more detailed comparative study of the systems found in four countries: South Africa, Tanzania, Somalia, and the Ivory Coast. Maps. Footnotes, index. ix., 308 pp. ISBN: 0-133295990.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth boards with silver and orange lettering in a good dustjacket with rubbing and edgewear.
Book ID: 38759More details Price: $15.00 -
IRON TECHNOLOGY IN EAST AFRICA: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Bloomington & Oxford: Indiana University Press & James Currey, (1997.). First edition - A comprehensive look at iron technology in East Africa from ancient times to the present, the result of more than 20 years of research. Includes an account of the reenactment of traditional iron smelting by the elders of the Haya people in northwestern Tanzania. Illustrated with many photographs, maps, charts and drawings. Glossary, extensive bibliography and index. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-253211093.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 41652More details Price: $20.00 -
HURRY THE CROSSING.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a young boy in a hurry to growi up in a small Tanzanian village, written by a volunteer who spent two years teaching in Africa. Glossary of Swahili words. 155 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Elaine Raphael. ISBN: 0-397-314523.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 46457More details Price: $15.00