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Peuls Nomades: Etude Descriptive des Wodaabe du Sahel Nigerien
by Dupire, Marguerite
Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1962. Paperback. Good/Good. frontis, photos, 2 folding maps, viii, 336p. Softcover in original wrapper (with dj). 29 cm. Sound but worn jacket with some tape reinforcement on hidden side. Numerous pencil underlinings in portions of book. Travaux et Memoires de Institut d'Ethnologie, Tome LXIV. French text. The Wodaabe are a Fulani subgroup of nomadic cattle-herders and traders in portions of the Sahel regions in West Africa.
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NZ$59.58
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824 ... Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire
by Denham, Major Dixon, Captain Hugh Clapperton, and Dr. Oudney
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard; Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1826. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. 3 maps (2 folding), folding plate (bound as two plates in this copy), lxiv, 255, 104, 112p. Contemporary leather. 23cm. Backstrip and cover edges heavily scuffed. First folding map wrinkled but complete. Lower corner of three text leaves torn off (substantial loss of text on one leaf). Archival tape repairs on another text leaf. Bookplates (one from an old Philadelphia institution).
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NZ$229.80
Nigeria in history
by Fajana, A. & B. J. Biggs, illustrations by C. Pearson, maps by G. Woodman
Ikeja: Longman Nigeria Ltd, 1977. Paperback. viii, 230p., preface, appendices, illustrations, maps, lightly-worn reprint trade paperback in red pictorial wraps.
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NZ$20.43
D'Alger au Congo par le Tchad
by Foureau, Fernand, 1850-1914
Paris: Masson, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. frontis, illustrations, folding map, 831p. plus (2)p. publisher's advertisements. Cloth. Two gilt figures on front cover. 23cm. Backstrip wrinkled. Cover foxing and moderate fading. Contents sound. No Jacket (probably as issued). From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on endpaper. French text. At head of title: Mission Saharienne Foureau-Lamy.
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NZ$340.44
Science and Freedom: A Bulletin of the Committee on Science and Freedom; No. 12, October 1958
by Polanyi, George, editor
Manchester, England: Committee on Science and Freedom, 1958. Newsletter. 40p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps worn, staples rusted, front wrap lightly foxed along stapled edge. Science and Freedom "was launched in autumn 1953 after a Congress [for Cultural Freedom, a CIA front group] conference of the same name...in drawing attention to racial segregation in America, as well as apartheid in South Africa, [the] journal spoke about issues on which the Congress was, on the whole, muted. It also...
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NZ$30.64
The Contemporary Humanities in an International Context: Critical Issues and Prospects. A Bellagio Conference, May-June 1975
New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1976. Paperback. viii, 80p., wraps, 8.25x11 inches, two dents from paperclips and a few small rust stains on front wrap else very good condition. Nigerian novelist and playwright Wole Soyinka was a participant in the conference. Working Papers.
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NZ$34.04
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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849-1855 [Volumes. I-III only (of 5)]
by Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1857. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Vols. I-III Only (of 5). 11 folding maps, 36 tinted litho plates, xi, 635, xi, 676, xxxvi, 578p. plus [2]p. publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. III. Green cloth. Vols. I and III have new endpapers and have been rebacked, with almost all of the original backstrips mounted. 23cm. Ex church library with oval red stamp of upstate New York church on each title-page and a few other library markings including evidence of...
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NZ$1,276.65
Mary Slessor The White Queen : A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith
by Livingstone, W.P
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to mildly age-toned dustjacket edges and corners. Bookseller stamp to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128 pages.. The biography of the highly regarded Mary Slessor a Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria in the late nineteenth century. . Reprint. Hardback.
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NZ$22.25
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S.
by Burton, Richard Francis, 1821-1890
New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970. Hardcover. Fine. 2 vols. frontises (folding map in Vol. 2), viii, 303, 295p. Original red cloth. 22cm. No Jackets. A rather uncommon reprint of the 1863 edition.
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NZ$212.78
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in Years 1850-51, under the Orders and at the Expense of her Majesty's Government
by Richardson, James, 1806-1851
London: Chapman & Hall, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. folding map, xxviii, 343, viii, 359p. Brown cloth. 20cm. Ex lib. (Boston College). Library markings include internal stampings, bookplates, etc., as well as a library stamp on page edge, and a large black rectangular mark toward bottom of both backstrips beneath which are remnants of an old label. Head of backstrip chipped on Vol. II. Contents sound and clean. Edited from Richardson's journals by Bayle St. John.
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NZ$680.88
IN SUNNY NIGERIA Experiences Among a Primitive People in the Interior of North Central Africa
by Helser, Albert D
Fleming H. Revell. Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Stains to the covers, with some edgewear. Owner's name on endpaper. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 188 pages .
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NZ$17.02
Integration of Customary and Modern Legal Systems in Africa
by Conference on the Integration of Customary and Modern Legal Systems in Africa, 4th, University of Ife, 1964
New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1971. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiv, 461p. Original blue boards. dj. 22cm. Jacket has a couple of modest water spots.
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NZ$170.22
Tuareg Trails
by Campbell, Dugald
London: Printed for the Author by Pickering & Inglis, 1930. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 39p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Cover flap price-clipped. Name stamp on front cover. Missionary item.
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NZ$42.56
Men of the Trees in The Mahogany Forests of Kenya and Nigeria
by Baker, Richard St. Barbe
New York: Dial Press, 1931. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis, photos, 283p. Original cloth. 24cm. Backstrip darkened, lightly frayed at ends. Spine lettering indistinct. Bookplate. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on half-title page by Baker. Preceded by the English edition which was titled "The Brotherhood of the Trees."
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NZ$34.04
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Missions to the Niger, I-IV. [4 vols. complete]
by Bovill, E. W
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 vols. frontis, maps (including pocket map), ills, index, xi, 406, xiv, 306, xii, [307]-595, x, [597]-798p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Minor soiling and wear. Backstrip faded on vol. III. No Jackets (except on Vol. II). Second Series, Nos. 123, 128-130. Part One contains The Journal of Friedrich Hornemann's Travels and the Letters of Alexander Gordon Laing; Parts Two-Four contain a reprint of the second edition [with the addition of some plates...
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NZ$102.13
On the Trail of the Veiled Tuareg: An Account of These Mysterious Nomadic Warriors Whose Home Is the Trackless Desert & Whose History Fades into the Far Past
by Campbell, Dugald
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. Hardcover. Good. frontis, photos, folding map, "oversight" slip (tipped in), index, 282p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Old library stamp (Norristown Library Company) and a later owner's name on front endpaper (which is split along hinge). Moderate cover staining and discoloration. Backstrip edges and ends rubbed and chipped. Contents sound. No jacket.
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NZ$102.13
Zwolf Gedichte
by Achebe, Chinua (poems) [and] Obiora Udechukwu (illustrations)
Bayreuth: Iwalewa-Haus, 1990. Paperback. Near Fine. Obiora Udechukwu. illustrations, [28] unnumbered pages. Wrapper. 36cm. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, of which only the first 50 were signed by Achebe & Udechukwu. This copy not signed. Contains 12 poems translated into German by Ulli Beier.
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NZ$127.66
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History of an African Independent Church. [Volume] I. The Church of the Lord (Aladura)
by Turner, Harold W
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. This volume only (of 2). photos, index, xv, 217p. Blue cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket edge-wear and other light wear and soiling . Former owner's name stamp. Vol. II (not present here) was titled: African Independent Church: The Life and Faith of the Church of the Lord (Aladura).
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NZ$217.88
Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
by Soiyinka, Wole
New York: Random House, 2005. 2nd printing of the American edition. Paperback. Near Fine. xxiv, 145p, Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. Minor wear only. SIGNED by Soyinka on title-page. First published in the U.K. by Profile books in 2004 as "The Climate of Fear."
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NZ$127.66
Time out of joint: Selected Poems
by Njoku, Benedict Chiaka
Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, 1983. Hardcover. 80p. hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good. Collection of poetry by a doctor who had immigrated from Nigeria.
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NZ$59.58
A Narrative of the Expedition sent by her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841. Under the Command of Captain H. D. Trotter, R.N.
by Allen, William, 1793-1864, and Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson
London: Frank Cass, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. 2 frontises, 2 folding maps, illustrations, xviii, 509, viii, 511p. Red cloth. 22cm. Backstrips slightly faded. No jackets. Reprint of 1848 edition.
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NZ$144.69
Out of a Bleak Landscape
by DonPedro, Ibiba [DonPedro sic]
Lagos: Foreword Communications Limited, 2005. Paperback. [203]p., illustrated with numerous scattered photographs, mostly b&w snapshots, vignette color photoportrait of the author on cover. Softbound in 8.5x6 inch decorated wraps, shows a small nick at the head, an otherwise sound clean copy with faint external signs of handling, clean and unmarked within. Text paper bears a few flecks and crease lines created from the quality of paper employed and general bindery errors, nothing egregious. Ibiba...
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D'Alger au Congo par le Tchad
by Foureau, Fernand
Paris: Masson, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. frontis, illustrations, folding map, 831p. plus (2)p. publisher's advertisements. Rebound in contemporary quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in red leather). 23cm. Extremities rubbed. Rubbing and splitting along joints which are still reasonably sound. First few leaves at front and back browned. Contents sound. No Jacket. French text. At head of title: Mission Saharienne Foureau-Lamy.
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NZ$306.40
Theories of individual counselling: relevance to the Nigerian situation
by Achebe, Christie C., editor
Amherst, MA: Five College Black Studies Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. vi, 173 p., very good in wraps. Discussions of how counseling developed in the context of "Western, white middle class values" is relevant in Nigeria.
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NZ$34.04
Croissance demographique et evolution socio-economique en Afrique de l'Ouest: recueil d'articles inedits
by Caldwell, John Charles, publishing director
New York: The Population Council, 1973. Paperback. Very Good. index, xiv,1028p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. French text. Includes sections on Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia and Zaire (Congo) in addition to most of the former French colonies in West and Central Africa.
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NZ$110.64
