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Image for A History of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa Three Volumes. Volume I: 1859 - 1909; Volume II: 1907 - 1932; Volume III: 1933- 1957 With Supplement 1957 - 1965

A History of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa Three Volumes. Volume I: 1859 - 1909; Volume II: 1907 - 1932; Volume III: 1933- 1957 With Supplement 1957 - 1965

By: Anderson-Morshead, A. E. M. & Blood, A. G.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, The Universities' Mission to Central Africa:

Seller ID: ID310841

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. All dustjacket spines and edges are age-toned. Offset to free endpapers in all volumes. Previous owner's details to half-title page in each volume. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Volume 1 by A. Andersen-Morshead and Volumes 2 & 3 by A. Blood. 313, 326, 468, 8 pages. Volume I is the revised 6th edition. The remaining volumes are 1st edtions. Date of publication - 1956 (Vol I); 1957 (Vol II) 962 (Vol III); 1965 (Supplement). Robust, professional...
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Looking For Dilmun

By: Bibby, Geoffrey

Price: $27.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1969

Seller ID: ID243978

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations. 383 pages The author has discovered an ancient society older than Sumer located along the Persian Gulf in the maritime highway between Mesopotamia and India. This is the kingdom known to the Sumerians and Babylonians as Dilmun, the legendary land of immortality referred to in Assyrian records and the Gilgamesh Epic.
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Children of the Resistance. Statements from the Harare Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa

By: Brittain, Victoria & Minty, Abdul S. [Editors]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Kliptown Books: 1988

Seller ID: ID268358

ISBN: 0904759873

Binding: Softcover

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. 146 pages The editors have brought together some of the testimony of the children and other participants and set it in the context of the situation of children under apartheid.
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South Africa: The New Revolution

By: Caldwell, Don

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Saxonwold, South Africa, Free Market Foundation: 1990

Seller ID: ID310957

ISBN: 0620133716

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Inscribed by author to previous owner. 253 pages.
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A Merciless Place. The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution

By: Christopher, Emma

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Allen & Unwin: 2010

Seller ID: ID311115

ISBN: 0199782555

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 432 pages. This is a story lost to history for over 200 years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal judgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over.
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Africa: Crude Continent. The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

By: Clarke, Duncan

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Profile Books: 2010

Seller ID: ID311537

ISBN: 1846684196

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Colour maps. New Epilogue by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvii, 718pp.
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The Outlanders. The Men Who Made Johannesburg

By: Crisp, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1964

Seller ID: ID252158

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good [Price-Clipped] Dustjacket. DJ spine is just slightly sunned & now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 435 pages. In 1886 an Australian stone-mason discovered, by accident, the main gold-bearing reef of the Witwatersrand. Its discovery brought into existence a crude mining camp which spread outward and upward as legions of gold-seekers poured in from every corner of the globe. To the Wit...
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The Strong Brown God - The Story of the Niger River

By: de Gramont, Sanche

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon: 1975

Seller ID: ID232321

ISBN: 0246107596

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps 350 pages
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Stanley. An Adventurer Explored

By: Hall, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1974

Seller ID: ID221291

ISBN: 0002117347

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has small piece missing at top corner of front panel & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings/Diagrams. Endpaper maps. 400 pages
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Breaking Sudan The Search for Peace

By: Jok, Jok Madut

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Oneworld: 2017

Seller ID: ID311274

ISBN: 1786070030

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 370 pages. A meticulous account analyzing why violence became so deeply entrenched in Sudanese society and exploring what can be done to find peace in two countries ravaged by war.
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Through Fortress and Rock. The Story of Gencor 1895-1995

By: Jones, JDF

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball Publishers: 1995

Seller ID: ID303741

ISBN: 1868420299

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 277 pages It is a book intended for the general reader and seeks to set the tale of a giant world corporation against the complex, erratic and sometimes bloody history of South Africa
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Kaunda on Violence

By: Kaunda, Kenneth David

Price: $14.00

Publisher: London, Collier Books: 1980

Seller ID: ID244179

ISBN: 0002161435

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our puepose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 184 pages Edited and with an Introduction by Colin M. Morris.
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Bullion Johannesburg. Men, Mines and the Challenge of Conflict

By: Lang, John

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball Publishers: 1986

Seller ID: ID265907

ISBN: 0868501301

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 509 pages The book is named after the telegraphic address of the Chamber of Mines and tells the story of the Chamber from its foundation in 1886 through to the centenary in 1986.
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Race Propaganda and South Africa

By: Laurence, John C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Garden City Press: 1979

Seller ID: ID247523

ISBN: 057502691X

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ faded on Spine. 215 pages The manipulation of Western opinion and policies by the forces of White Supremacy.
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South Africa No Easy Path To Peace

By: Leach, Graham

Price: $16.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1986

Seller ID: ID287733

ISBN: 0710208480

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. B/w maps & photographs. 266 pages
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The Remarkable Expedition: The Story of Stanley's Rescue of Emin Pasha from Equatorial Africa

By: Manning, Olivia

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1985

Seller ID: ID241835

ISBN: 0297785664

Binding: Trade Paperback

Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Illustrated with a black & white map. xii, 275 pages
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The Gold Fields Revisited being further glimpses of the gold fields of South Africa

By: Mathers, Edward P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Pretoria, The State Library: 1970

Seller ID: ID265903

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good+ condition. No dustjacket. Grey cloth boards with blue cloth spine and black title etc to face & spine. Fold-out black & white maps. State Library Reprints No 53. 352 pages Originally published in 1887.
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King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa

By: Minter, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1986

Seller ID: ID249958

ISBN: 0465037232

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. xiii, 401pages
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More Lasting Than Bronze: The Story of the 1820 Settlers National Monument

By: Neville, Thelma

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Pietermaritzburg, The Natal Witness Printing and Publishing Company: n.d. circ mid 1980s

Seller ID: ID239010

ISBN: 0620161140

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm].. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings by Tony Grogan. Excellent condition. Inscribed & signed by the author. 111 pages The story of the monument and the Grahamstown national Festival of the Arts.
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Liberalism in South Africa 1948-1963 [Inscribed by Author]

By: Robertson, Janet

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1971

Seller ID: ID259084

ISBN: 0198216661

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Inscribed & signed by the author on title page. viii, 252 pages Describes and explains the development and failure of the liberal idea of equal rights in South Africa.
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Category: History-Africa