Stranger to Europe: Poems 1939-1949
Capetown: A.A. Balkema, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 40p. Thin, flexible reddish-brown cloth. 19cm. Small indentation on front cover. No Jacket. SIGNED by Butler on title-page and dated "Cradock 9 Feb., 53." More
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tales from the old Karoo
Johannesburg: Donker, 1989. Hardcover. 205p. dj. 23cm. INSCRIBED by Butler to his brother Jeffrey ("Jeff") and Jeffrey's wife ("Val") and dated Christmas 1989. More
Archive of Letters and Other Materials
1975. A five inch stack of files containing about 110 letters from Guy to Jeffrey dated between 1965 and 1989 as well as photocopies of many of Jeffrey's letters to Guy over the same period. Also in the files are a few drafts of articles and other items. Condition of..... More
First Aid Illustrated: Ikusiza Aba Limele
London: Published by Courtesy of the Prevention of Accidents Committee of the Rand Mutual Assurance Co. Ltd by Longmans, Green and Co., (1937). Rand Edition -- also identified on copyright page as Revised edition. Paperback. photos, 96p. Softcover in original wrappers. 22 cm. First and last leaves browned. More
The African Slaves: A Missionary Tale. Founded on Facts.
London: Haughton and Co., n.d. [1870s?]. Hardcover. frontis, 58, [1]p. Ofitinal red cloth. 17 cm. Cover soiling and some minor staining.. Spine sloped. A missionary tale set in a small village about 40 miles from Lagos in Nigeria. More
Basakata: Le Peuple du Pays de l'Entre-Fleuves Lukenie-Kasai
[Uppsala]: 1966. Paperback. XXXII, 286p. Softcover in original wrapper. 32cm. Cover chipping and wear around edges. Contents sound and unopened. Dtudia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, XXV. French text. More
Current Periodicals in the Missionary Research Library: a Subject List
New York: Missionary Research Library, 1972. Paperback. ii, 40p. Wrapper. Stapled. 28cm. Several ink checkmarks. More
Croissance demographique et evolution socio-economique en Afrique de l'Ouest: recueil d'articles inedits
New York: The Population Council, (c. 1973). Paperback. 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. More
Les Grandes Dates du Cameroun
Yaounde: (1965). 2e edition. Paperback. portrait, map, 42p. Wrapper. 20cm. Minor browning. French text. More
Tuareg Trails
London: Printed for the Author by Pickering & Inglis, n.d. [late 1920s or early 1930s]. Paperback. photos, 39p. Wrapper. 19cm. Flap on wrapper price-clipped. Name stamp on front cover. Missionary item. More
Travels in South Africa. Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society
1815. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), folding map, 8 plates (1 folding), xvi, 582p. Later 3/4 leather (marbled boards with large brown leather backstrip and large corners). 21cm. No half-title present. Map uncolored. Front and back covers detached. Trimmed when rebound leaving adequate but narrow margins. Title page discolored in upper right..... More
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland or Reminiscences of a Sojourn among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa. In 1859-60
London: William John Johnson, 1861. 1st English ed. Hardcover. double-page map (tipped in along inner edge of page 12), 116p. Original printed boards, rather crudely rebacked with a strip of black leather. 17cm. Cover partially detached at title-page and also rather scuffed. Rear endpaper splitting along hinge. Large piece gone..... More
Afrique en Images: A l'Ombre du Kilimanjaro
New York: Preebles Press, (c. 1975). 1st ed. Hardcover. text followed by uncaptioned full-page photos (many black and white and some color), pages unnumbered. Original green boards. dj. 31cm. Cover corners bumped. Jacket has modest wear. More
Initiation a l'Enquete Linguistique
Abidjan: Universite d'Abidjan, Institut de Linguistique Applique, (1971). Paperback. 142p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. Text printed on one side. French text. First published in 1968 by the Section Linguistique Appliquee de l'Universite Federale du Cameroun. More
La Region du Tchad et du Ouadai
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1912. 1st ed. Paperback. 2 vols. double-page map, 380, 277p. A very worn copy of this uncommon book with all leaves detached. Edges ragged or chipped or creased on numerous leaves. All that remains of the covers for this softcover item are the front covers of both..... More
UPI: Elementos para o Estudo de um Utensilio Angolano de Moagem
Lisboa: Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar, 1980. Paperback. folding map, 35p., plus (22) photos & illustrations. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. "Rejected Tozzer Library" stamp on cover. Portuguese text. Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, No. 13. More
The Thousand
Nairobi: Oxford University Press, (c. 1969). Paperback. 82p. Wrapper. 19cm. A short play set in a fictional Congo-like country. More
The East African Home Doctor
Nairobi: The Eagle Press/ East African Literature Bureau, 1957. 1st ed. Paperback. frontis, 149p. Softcover in original wrapper.22 cm. More
Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa: With a Full Description of the Manner of Trading With the Natives on the Coast
New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, (1970). Hardcover. iv, 479p. Cloth. 18cm. No Jacket (as issued). Moderate foxing on page edges. Reprint of the Boston edition of 1852. More
I Chose Africa
Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1961. Hardcover. photos, index, 127p. dj. 24cm. Jacket chipped. Endpapers slightly browned. More
O Trafico de Escravos nos Rios de Guine e Ilhas de Cabo Verde (1810-1850)
Lisboa: Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar, 1981. Paperback. 52p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. White sanded area on front cover where a name was removed. Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, No. 14. More
De la Senegambie Francaise
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1855. Paperback. 396p. Blue wrapper. 25cm. Backstrip recently replaced with plain off white paper. Front and back covers substantially chipped and recently re-attached--both covers had been heavily reinforced with cellophane tape which is now gone leaving clear evidence of its use over most of the front..... More
Climates of Africa and India According to Thornthwaite's 1948 Classification
Centerton, N.J. Johns Hopkins University, Laboratory of Climatology, 1954. Paperback. 1 of 2 folding maps (laid in), pp. 453-474. Wrapper. 28cm. Name stamp on wrapper and on map. Has the folding map on Africa but lacks a similar one on India. Publications in Climatology, Vol. VII, No. 4. More
Methodo Practoco para Fallar a Lingua da Lunda contendo Narracoes Historicas dos Diversos Povos
Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1890. 1st ed. Hardcover. xv, [8], vii, 391p. Contemporary Portuguese quarterbinding. 23cm. Backstrip worn at ends and wormed. Light marginal stains on last 50 (or so) leaves. "Munger Africana Library" embossed lightly on title-leaf. Portuguese text. At head of title: Expedicao Portugueza ao Muatianvua. More
The Basutos; or, Twenty-Three Years in South Africa
London: James Nisbet, 1861. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, xix, 355p. plus 8p. publisher's advertisements. Original cloth. 20cm. Covers rather heavily spotted and worn. Former owners' name, gift inscription or name stamp on endpaper, back of frontis, on title-page and on top edge of pages. Lacks the folding map; contents otherwise sound..... More