New York: American Committee for France & Algeria, 1962. First edition. Fifteen corner-stapled leaves mimeographed on rectos only (includes cover and contents sheets). A report situating the Algerian nationalist movement within the broader Communist revolution. The American Committee for France & Algeria published a newsletter called “Integration” and argued for..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; color illustrated endpapers; xiv, 273 pp.; 26 photographic plates. A memoir of the author's life in central Africa, Tanganyika Territory, in which she hunts big game in the wilds of the African jungle... More
New Rochelle, N.Y.: America's Future, Inc., 1978. First edition. Tall, stapled wrappers; 22 pp. The author contends that the Carter administration has miscalculated South Africa’s strategic importance regarding the Soviet Union and Communism due to its moral approach regarding apartheid. A Fine copy, and uncommon. More
Durban, South Africa: The Dolphin Press, [1972]. First edition. 8vo; wrappers, [75] pp. Light rubbing to wrappers; Sons of Liberty distribution sticker on the bottom of the title page. About Near Fine. Just over a dozen copies in WorldCat. An uncommon anti-equalitarian work, in which the authors, an Englishman and Afrikaaner... More
Lisbon: General Overseas Agency, 1963. First edition. Stapled wrappers; 34, [1] pp. A lecture given by the Portuguese politician on the competition for Africa's resources by the world's superpowers, but more importantly the sub-development of Africa due to its harsh physical environment and complex social structures. Importation stamps to rear... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1935. First edition. Octavo. Green cloth, silver-stamped spine; photographic endpapers. xvi, 216 pp.; 9 plates; 2 maps. First published in 1925, copies of the original two editions are scarce. It was re-published in 1969 by Negro Universities Press, which is the edition typically... More
New York: The Africa Fund, [1976]. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Saddle-stapled blue wrappers printed in black; 45 pp.; 3 maps. A scarce pamphlet on the liberation of Angola by the MPLA. No other copies currently for sale in commerce (July 2016). Faint soiling to rear wrapper; Very Good+. More
Hamburg: Georg Westermann, 1917. First edition. Wrappers with some toning to edges; browned spine; the front free endpaper has come loose, but still present; cheap paper browned, although clean throughout. In German. Discusses the economic life of South Africa in the context of its water power. Uncommon. More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1950. First edition. Stapled wrappers (5 ¼” x 8”), 15 pp., map. A Near Fine copy. With an introduction by Eslanda Goode Robeson. Hunton describes the various demands of the African liberation movements and the methods they are using to overthrow colonialism. More
New York: Bantam Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo.; faux puffy leather boards stamped in silver; illustrated endpapers; 622 pp. SIGNED by Koontz at first blank. One of a limited number of a pre-publication edition issued by the publisher. A Fine copy. More
Richmond, B.C.: LSM Information Center, 1975. First edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers; 30, [2] pp.; one photograph, one illustration. Reprints two 1974 speeches by FRELIMO President, Samora Machel: “FRELIMO’s Tasks in the Struggle Ahead,” delivered “on the occasion of the investiture of the transitional government of Mazambique, 20 September 1974” and..... More
London: Congo-Africa, 1962. First edition. Octavo. White, saddle-stitched wrappers printed in green; 24 pp.; map; black & white photographs throughout. The author, a British journalist, asserts that the uprising in Angola is the result of American missionaries and outside Communist agitators and argues for the continuance of Portuguese colonialism. Note... More
London: Panaf Books Limited, 1969? 21.5 cm; 12 pp. Stapled-bound pamphlet; price in British currency to front wrapper else a Fine copy. "The Myth of the 'Third World'" was first published in "Labour Monthly" in Oct. 1968 and "'African Socialism' Revisited" in "African Forum," 1966. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was the... More
Chicago: Third World Press, 1973. First edition. 8vo; perfect-bound wrappers, 189, [1] pp. An extension of the author's dissertation at St. Louis Univ., which he investigates blackness and African humanism. Onwuachi was born in Nigeria, but studied in exclusively Western institutions in Paris, London, Ottawa and the U.S. Wrappers are... More
Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria: Obobo Books, 1994. First edition. 20, [2]; 19 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled illustrated cardboard wrappers. A Near Fine set with only some slight rubbing; clean throughout. Scarce. No copies of either volume found in commerce, and although OCLC has a listing, no libraries claim to have holdings. As... More
[Hayward, CA]: Black Students [sic] Union of Cal State, Hayward, 1968. Eight 8 ½” x 11” corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets printed rectos only, poorly reproduced Emory Douglas artwork to front cover. Soiling to the cover sheet with orange stain to the top margin of most sheets, although not affecting text. No... More
New York: Helga M. Rogers, [ca. 1961]. First edition thus. 4to; dark boards stamped in gilt; 272 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. In this book, the self-trained historian and journalist, Joel Augustus Rogers, documents the many accomplishments of Africans and African-Americans to refute the notion that blacks haven't contributed to Western... More
[Washington, D. C.: Agency for International Development, Department of State?], [1966]. First edition. Corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets; 13 pp. In this paper prepared for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, the author argues that the Liberian-based educator, journalist and diplomat, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), was the first Pan-Africanist... More
Washington, D. C.: Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1993. First edition. Yellow perfect-bound wrappers (6” x 8 ½”), 146 pp. A New, sealed copy. Only six copies in WorldCat. The author, a Hungarian who immigrated to Canada after WWII, illustrates the inevitability of ethnic strife around the world when minority populations become too large... More
[London?]: Alastar [sic] C. Geldard, [ca. 1960s]. A 5” x 7½” handbill printed in black by The Shamrock Press on newsprint. An unabashed asservation by Oswald Mosley’s post-war Union Movement (UM), which capitalized on Britain’s increasing racial tension and the growing political destabilization of white-ruled Rhodesia and South Africa. Mosley’s..... More
New York: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First edition. Twelvemo (17.5 cm); 364, [4] pp.; tissue-protected frontispiece; illus. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in red and gilt; floral endpapers. An about near fine copy with some light rubbing and dust-soiling; clean throughout. A fictional adventure story through the African continent. The finest copy we've seen. More
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