Search Results: Africa from Old Saratoga Books

London: Hodder Headline. Very Good; Pen marks on bottom of page edges.. 1994. First Printing. Softcover. 0340559292 . ix,222 pages. Black and white maps, select bibliography, and index. A Pan-African study whose aim was to assess the extent to which nationalistic changes were the result of deliberate imperial policy, the pressures of African nationalism, or superpower rivalry. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679400214 . Cloth-backed boards, map endpapers. Account of the author's wildlife surveys In 1978 in Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and the Gambia and in 1986 in Kenya, Zaire, Tanzania, Congo, Angola, Gabon, Central African Republic, and Sudan. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Stain at page tops of first few leaves, . boards worn, jacket foxed and tattered, front jacket flap clipped.. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 86 black and white photos plus photo collage on endpapers. Relates the physician author's big game hunting trip in Tanzania in 1927. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages .

Stanford, CA: Food Research Institute. Good; Covers rubbed, library stamps on front cover, interior clean and . bright and free of any notation.. 1964. First Printing. Softcover. Maps and charts. A study of agricultural development in East Africa post World War II highlighting the progress made and the obstacles faced. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 98 pages .

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Dampstain to head of spine and jacket, . price sticker on the front jacket flap.. 1986. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 0394521439 . Black paper quarter-bound in black cloth. The author's personal narrative of her time spent in Ghana. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages .

NY: Anchor Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1998. First Printing. Hardcover. 0385490380 . Essays and poems by Chinua Achebe, photographs by Robert Lyons. The late Nigerian writer's essay focuses on "Africa on its own terms, from within. With penetrating insight, he exposes a long history of distorted depictions of this extraordinary continent." Lyons' color photographs depict "Another Africa", ..." to counteract the constant portrayal of Africa as a place beset by famine, drought, and civil war, or as an open-air ethnographic museum for the West." ; 124 pages .

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and rubbed, light foxing to . endpapers and some pages.. 1930. Hardcover. Striking block print illustrations throughout by Helene Vogt. Brown cloth binding. An account of two women's 1920s motor car journey through Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages .

Denver, CO: Self Published. Very Good; Covers toned and worn.. 1953. Third Edition. Softcover. Other copies note an author inscription of Hope you enjoy my safari saga, but this is printed on the title page, not an author inscription. Many black and white photos. The author was the Outdoor Sports Editor for the Denver Post and was sent on assignment to Kenya. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 72 pages .

Winter Park, FL: Garfield Publishing Corporation. Very Good; Edges rubbed.. 1985. First Printing. Softcover. 0935591028 . Footnotes. An historical look at the region highlighting the questions of communism, apartheid, food shortages, and regional disputes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 355 pages .

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed and rounded, jacket lightly soiled, scuffed and chipped at edges.. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Numerous black and white photographs. The distinguished historian's account of his early 1960s travels through the Middle East and Northern Africa. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 133 pages .

Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1910. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. Heraldic bookplate of Cecil Thornton Reaney on front pastedown endpaper. Two folding maps at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages .

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. 1578983045 . Facsimile reprints of these two bibliographies originally published in 1889. Black cloth binding. Maps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper.. 1980. Hardcover. 0312083130 . Photos by Jurgen Vollmer. Cloth-backed boards. Inspired by Alex Haley's book Roots and the wildly popular miniseries, the writer and photography duo traveled to the fictional Kunta Kinte's village, Juffure, and retraced Kinte's route as an enslaved person in contemporary Mandingo country. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 117 pages .

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges foxed, jacket worn.. 1971. Hardcover. Reproductions of thirty color oil paintings by black American artist Paul Collins of his journey through West Africa. Text by Tom Lee. Brown leatherette binding. Illustrated endpapers. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 126 pages .

London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. Good with no dust jacket; Boards scuffed, hinges cracked, pages toned and foxed, shaken. 1912. First Edition. Blue cloth stamped in blind and with two color center cameo of man in loincloth looking at house on stilts stamped on front boards. Titles in gilt on spine. xvi, 334pp. Bibliography, index, glossary. Folding map of the British Somaliland protectorate and adjacent lands at rear. Many illustrations and photo reproductions. The author spent ten years in the Colonial Medical Service in British Somaliland and describes the people, geography, wildlife, livestock, and other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned, jacket lightly worn.. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Many photos, map endpapers. The American journalist recounts her time spent with guerrilla revolutionaries in Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages .

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn and dampstained, jacket tattered and . toned, owner name and inscription and light foxing on front endpapers.. 1924. Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth binding. Several pages of photographs. The author and his wife, Osa Johnson, were renowned photographers and filmmakers, and wrote several books about their travels around the world, including this book about Kenya and other parts of East Africa. Striking color jacket art of panther. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 342 pages .

Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed, jacket rubbed.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0774800941 . xix, 184pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Johannesburg, South Africa: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Lower corners bumped.. 1981. Hardcover. 0620049731 . Blue leather spine with gray suede boards. ix, 224pp. Descriptions of a little over 3000 Africana titles in the authors' personal library. Black and white illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: The African Economic Union. Fair; Rear cover missing top third, light soiling to covers and some . pages, underlining and notes, staples rusted, center leaf loose.. [1939]. Softcover. Tan printed stapled wraps. Introduction by Laminah Sankoh. Undated pamphlet by Ashanti Prince Kessie (introduction dated Sept. 2, 1939) advocating independence for Europe's African colonies. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 28 pages .