Edinburgh & London: W. & A. K. Johston, Limited, n.d. Hardcover. Original blue cloth binding (24 cm.) containing a large (62 x 47 cm.) linen-backed folding map of Africa and a large (46 x 32 cm.) folding location index titled "Africa Abbreviations & Significations." Folding map dated Oct 1911. More
Paris: Hachette, 1920. Paperback. photos, maps (3 double-page). Original wrapper. 16cm. Reglued. At head of title: Guides Diamant. French text. More
[Atlanta]: Army Press, 1941. Hardcover. photos, 84p. Original blue cloth. 31 cm. Binding detached at front hinge. Backstrip in tatters but mostly there. Dedication page has former owner's name (James T. Benson 2nd Lieut. 366 Inf"). No Jacket (presumably as published). The 366th was a segregated African American unit which..... More
Paris: Touring-Club de France, 1902. Hardcover. photos, 119p. plus (1) leaf (map). Burgundy cloth. 29cm. Marbled endpapers. French text. "Sites et Monuments" appears to have been a series of volumes describing various parts of France and the French Empire. More
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New York: n.d. [Postmarked in 1963]. Paperback. 23p. (pagination includes cover three pages). 22cm. Postmark and other shipping information on back cover (which also has some wrinkling and wear. The shop whose offering include items from North Africa as well as Sub-Saharan Africa, was located at 407 Bleeker Street in..... More
Alger: La Maison des Livres, (1956). Paperback. 368p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Backstrip and strip along top edge of front cover faded. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on first blank page. French text. More
Westport, Ct: Negro Universities Press, (1970). Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 2 folding maps, xii, 532p. Original red cloth. 22 cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1910 Edinburgh edition. More
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1929. Paperback. [vii]-lii, 268p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Backstrip browned. Former owner's name. Light foxing. Collection du Centenaire de l"Algerie, 1830-1930: Vie Intellectuelle et Artistique. (series). More
Paris: Maisonneuve, 1915. Paperback. 390p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. French text. Scholarly essays, mostly about North Africa with a couple on Ethiopia. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1968). 1st ed. Hardcover. 5 maps, index, xxxv, 680p. Original cloth. dj. 24cm. Translated by Marianna Oliver, Alexander Harrison and Bernard Phillips of Vols. I and II of Le Conflit Franco-Marocain, 1943-1956 (1963). More
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1924. Paperback. iv, 272p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover rather foxed and worn (chipping, cellophane tape reinforcement around front joint, etc.). Former owner's name. Moderate browning. French text. Publications de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines, tome XII. More
Lahore: Insitute of Islamic Culture, (c. 1964). Hardcover. frontis, photos, maps, index, xxxvi, 657p. Original black cloth. 24 cm. Two small rubber stamps (publishers or booksellers) on front free endpaper. No jacket. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, maps, photos, index, xx, 295p. Contemporary cloth (corners faded). dj. 23 cm. Author's "working copy." This interesting work sought to debunk some of the myths, exaggerations, and misinformation spread by missionaries, lecturers and others. Briggs has handwritten various corrections and additions..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1962. Paperback. 170p. Softcover in original green wrapper. 20cm. Contents moderately browned. Backstrip faded. 2555 items are listed and priced. More
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1882. Hardcover. Vol. II ONLY (of 2). frontis, illustrations, vi, 398p. Contemporary full leather. 20 cm. Moderate cover scuffing. Backstrip glued at front joint to reattach it at least temporarily. All edges gilt. Printed in gilt on front cover: "E. Y. from A. M. B. July 3, 1889."..... More
London: Remington and Co., 1886. Hardcover. Vol. II ONLY (of 2). 260p. Original brown cloth. 23 cm. Some chipping at head of backstrip. Binding detached from contents at both hinges. Ex lib. (internal markings from the Mercantile Library); contents otherwise sound although rather brittle with some minor chipping on fore-edges..... More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1933. Deuxieme edition (Reimpression photomechanique). Paperback. This volume only. facsimiles, folding map, cvi, 769p. Original wrapper. 29 cm. Backstrip split vertically and reglued (but without hiding the split). Corner heavily creased on back cover. Contents sound, clean and unopened, From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana..... More
Paris: Plon, 1881. Paperback. map (as frontis), ii, 290p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Backstrip worn and has a couple of vertical splits (which have been reglued). Shaken. Light foxing. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate. French text. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (c. 1994). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xxiii, 370p. dj. 23cm. More
Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1970. 1st U.K. ed. Paperback. maps and plans (including frontis, photos, 47p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. More
London: J. L. Cox and Sons, 1839. 1st ed. Hardcover. 3 plates (including frontis), 217p. Original brown cloth competently but not artistically rebacked in maroon buckram. 28cm. Edges or original cover rather heavily rubbed. New endpapers (probably when rebacked). Bookplate (Burke Casari). Foxing (especially heavy on frontis) and some staining..... More
Alger: Adolphe Jourdan, 1897. Hardcover. photos, 4 chromos, folding map (in cover pocket), xxvii, 576p. Old 1/2 leather (blue cloth with large black leather backstrip and corners). Original wrapper bound in. 28 cm. Covers scuffed. Front joint splitting. Back cover detached. Gift inscription on half-title. Contents sound (some age-toning and..... More
Paris: Renouard, 1939. 1st ed. Paperback. text photos, index, 238p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Cover browned and a bit worn. French text. Laid in: (1) a real photo postcard of an unidentified bearded man in a three piece suit; and (2) an undated five stanza poem titled "Le..... More
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1873. Paperback. pp. 406-420 plus 6 plates (numbered VII-XII). Softcover in original worn wrapper (lacks most of thin backstrip and the back panel has tears and is detached). 25 cm. Foxing. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on the first blank leaf..... More
Paris: Librairie Max Besson, 1938. Paperback. photos, index, 112p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover somewhat soiled and worn with some staining along left edge of front panel. Moderate foxing in portions of text. French text. More
