Search Results: Africa from Berthoff Books

Dell, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 384 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with drawings (cuts). Fourth printing, first published in 1961. Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed, creases to spine and back wrap, edges decoratively tinted blue and have foxing, end papers foxed and age-tanned, page margins age-toned. Marginal notes observed on fewer than five pages.

E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 326 pages, with index, glossary of Arabic and botanical names of plants mentioned, list of characters. Sixty-eight illustrations (b&w photos), seven maps including one large unfoldable formerly glued-on but now laid-in map of the Empty Quarter. Memoir by British officer Thesiger of his travels by foot and camel in northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula in 1945-50. 8vo, dove gray paper over boards with stylized desert sand dune illustration, blue cloth quarter with white lettering, worn at crown/heel/corners down to cardboard, sunned around margins, edges/end papers age-toned. A 1959 gift inscription, and names and notes of later owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on front free end paper; her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 16 pages, page-reference notes on end papers.

Simon and Schuster, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 298 pages, with index, glossary, pronunciation guide, three maps, 13 unnumbered full pages of b&w photos. Clarion imprint. Fourth paperback printing. Trade paperback, one signature (p. 171-202) printed upside down, light shelf wear, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1965. Soft cover. Good. 242 pages, with index, 36 tables of economic, sociological and population data, 28 maps. A Pelican Original - Pelican Book A706. Mass-market paperback. This copy is listed as in "good" condition as an average of the beat-up exterior ("fair") and the unmarked pages ("very good"). Front cover discolored from being damp-stuck to another book, wraps heavily creased, 2" separation of front cover from spine at top, small tears at foot; foxing, stains and soil to edges and end papers; front matter pages dog-eared at bottom and slightly so at top. Not ex-library, former owner's name written on ffep, no marks on pages except for one tiny ink spot on page 155.

University Of Chicago Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good/Good. 474 pages, with biographical chronology, illustrated with 24 double-sided plates - b&w photos, facsimiles of correspondence, map. Letters of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1885-1962, to family and friends, first published in Danish in 1978. Translated by Anne Born, edited for the Rungstedlund Foundation by Frans Lasson with his "The Rain at Ngong: An Introduction to the Letters of Isak Dinesen". 8vo, tan cloth with copper gilt lettering on spine, black end papers, minimal shelf wear, corners sharp, faint foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with light soil and wear including small holes along rear flap fold. Names of former owners written on copyright page, marginalia (many small check marks, some notes) and some underscoring in light pencil on approximately one-third of the pages.

Simon and Schuster, 1962. Hardcover. Good. 251 pages. A Touchstone Book. Sixth paperback printing. "In . . . life-sketches of modern Africans from powerful chiefs to the dispossessed of the great cities, the author . . . examines tribalism, its values, its traditions, its effects on Africa's future." Trade paperback, scant wear but wavy from damp damage, edges and page margins age-toned, binding stiff. Underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 10 pages.

Touchstone, 1987. Soft cover. Good. 310 pages, with index, two maps, several other drawings, glossary, pronunciation guide, 10 full unnumbered pages of b&w photos. Touchstone edition of book first published 1972. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, price sticker and remnants of two others on back cover, Former owner's name and another price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 70 pages and inside back cover.

Faber & Faber, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 257 pages, with index, illustrated with two double-sided plates of photographs and documents. 8vo, black boards with gilt lettering on spine, slight vertical stain from edges of DJ flaps on end-papers, corners sharp, minor foxing to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, in unclipped DJ that looks great from the outside, has tan damp-stain on the inside at bottom. Approximately half the pages have underscoring and/or margin brackets, and a couple of instances of marginalia, written by previous owners.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 526 pages, with index, Selected Bibliography, several photographic plates, eight pages of maps and tables. 8vo, light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, boards sunned to crown/foot/edges, pictorial end papers, faint foxing to edges and end papers, in DJ with light soil and edge wear, horizontal crease near bottom of front panel. South African bookstore price on half-title, no markings observed in text.

ROSSPEN, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 319 pages, with index. Survey by Russian historian and ethnographer Yuri Kobishchanov of the institution of a ruler's tour of the population (sometimes called a "royal tour") for tax-collection, as it is documented in ancient Eurasian societies, as well as medieval and pre-20th century modern Eastern and Western Europe, and Africa. Trade paperback, light shelf wear to back bottom corner and heel, light smudges to back wrap, pages and edges lightly age-toned. Signed by the author on title page, no markings to text.

Methuen - Mandarin, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 330 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with nine maps and five double-sided plates of black and white photographs. Mass-market paperback, crease to front wrap at upper right, faint foxing to edges and light soil to wraps, page margins slightly age-toned. No markings observed to text.

Southern Book Publishers, 1988. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 692 pages, with index, illustrations, 13 maps, five tables of economic and political data. Book first published 1977. Trade paperback, corner creases to front wrap, first 50 pages bent (but not dog-eared) at upper right, faint foxing to edges, end papers and ffep/rfep, stains to top edge, binding tight, S. African bookstore sticker on back wrap. Underscoring and margin brackets observed on fewer than five pages.

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pages, with index. First printing. Seven b&w illustrations (art reproductions), also maps. History of 18th-century insurgency of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica. 8vo, brown cloth with orange lettering on spine, dark green end papers; the book is cocked, but has minimal shelf wear, a few pages slightly dented along fore-edge. Unclipped dust jacket has slight curl along top edges. Pages bright and unmarked.

Avon Books, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 224 pages, with index, suggestions for further reading, black and white illustrations (photos) throughout. The study explores four different cultures in Africa. Book first published 1966. Mass-market paperback, edges stained red, crease to spine, light shelf wear, page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, pages unmarked.