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Commonwealth Studies

This list contains approx 200 titles. They are divided into the following sections: General, West Indies, India, Africa, and Australia/Canada.

General

1 100 Years of Banking in Asia and Africa. A History of National and Grindlays Bank Ltd, 1863 - 1963. xii 246p 24cm cloth, plates, index, appendices, VG+. Money first £ 14.-

2 Barry, Alfred: The Ecclesiastical Expansion of England in the Growth of the Anglican Communion. Hulsean Lectures 1894/5. Macmillan 1895. vii 397p 21cm cloth, fresh clean ex lib copy. The Bishop of Sydney writes about Colonial Expansion, about India, and the Barbarian Races £ 16.-

3 Butt, G: The Lion in the Sand. The British in the Middle East. Bloomsbury 1995. 215p 24cm, cloth, dj, plates, as new £ 10.-

4 Select Documents on British Colonial Policy, 1830 - 1860. Ed. K Bell & W P Morrell. OUP 1928. xlixx 610p 23cm cloth, index, firm, VG+ ex lib copy. introd w/ slight pencil marks £ 16.-

5 Education Department. Reports on the Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876. HMSO 1877. Vol 2 only. 498p, no cover, maps (1 missing): contains: J F Watson: Report on the Progress of India, with a catalogue, plus extensive reports on the other dominions, a detailed survey of relevant commonwealth contributions to the exhibition £ 16.-

6 Egerton, H E; Newton, A P: A Short History of British Colonial Policy, 1606 - 1909. Methuen 1932. (1897) xiii 516p, 23cm cloth (spine dull), compr bibliogr, index, chronology, library label, VG £ 12.-

7 Frankel, S H: The Concept of Colonization. Inaugural Lecture. Clarendon 1949. 24p 23cm paper covers VG+ £ 5.-

8 Grondona, L S C: Commonwealth Stocktaking. Butterworth 1953. xxiv 389p 25cm cloth, index, ads, tables, comprehensive account of economic productivity of the commonwealth £ 16.-

9 Haizlip, Shirley Taylor: The Sweeter the Juice. A Family Memoir in Black and White. NY: Simon & Schuster 1994. 271p 24cm half cloth, dj, VG + £ 10.-

10 Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Clarendon 1881 - 1913. uniform 19cm cloth, maps, indices. A nice fresh set, but without vol 3 (West Africa)
vol 1: C P Lucas: European Dependencies, Minor Asiatic, Indian Ocean, 1881, 190p
vol 2: C P Lucas: West Indies, Falkland Islands, 1890, 343p;
vol 4: A B Keith: South Africa, New Ed 1913, 332p;
vol 5: J D Rogers: Newfundland, 1911, 274p; £ 20.-

11 Hyam, Ronald: Elgin & Churchill at the Colonial Office, 1905 - 1908. From Empire to Commonwealth. Macmillan 1969. xvi 574p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, plates, ex lib but as new £ 15.-

12 Inder Singh, A: The Limits of British Influence. South Asia & the Anglo American Relationship, 1947 - 1956. Pinter 1993. xvi 309p 24cm hb, as new (£ 54.-). Decolonisation & world politics £ 12.-

13 L'Amerique, l'Europe et les Autres. A la Recherche de la Informatique. Paris: Cles 1981. 121p 18cm card cover, notes in ink on last few pages £ 5.-

14 Jeffries, Charles: The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service. CUP 1938. xxv 259p 23cm cloth, map, index, appendix, VG ex lib £ 12.-

15 Kurian, George: Atlas of the Third World. Mansell 1983. 380p 30cm cloth, dj, maps, tables £ 10.-

16 Lowe, C J: The Reluctant Imperialists. Vol 1: British Foreign Policy, 1878 - 1902; Vol 2: The Documents. Routledge 1967. viii 261p, xvi 139p 23cm cloth, dj, index, maps, bibliogr, ex lib as new £ 25.-

17 Macleod, Duncan: Slavery, Race and the American Revolution. CUP 1974. vi 249p 21cm hb, dj, as new £ 12.-

18 Madden, Frederick: Imperial Constitutional Documents, 1765 - 1952. A Supplement. Oxford: Blackwell 1953. viii 91p card cover, spine tape repair, minor notes, VG £ 8.-

19 Mahood, Molly: The Colonial Encounter. A Reading of Six Novels. Collins 1977. 211p 22cm hb, dj, index, appendix, unused ex lib: Conrad, Achebe, Forster, Narayan, Greene, Naipaul £ 18.-

20 Men in the Tropics. A Colonial Anthology. Ed. Harold Evans. Hodge 1949. 380p cloth (sl grubby), many plates, spine recent repair, a comprehensive anthology £ 12.-

21 Morrell, W P: English Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell. OUP 1930. xii 554p 23cm cloth, index, bibliogr, maps, VG+ ex lib £ 16.-

22 Oldham, J H: Christianity and the Race Problem. Student Christian 1924. xx 280p 23cm cloth, ex lib, VG £ 10.-

23 Perham, Margery: The Colonial Reckoning. Collins 1962 (Reith Lectures). 160p 19cm hb, dj, VG+ £ 8.-

24 Robinson, K; Madden, F: (Eds.) Essays in Imperial Government Presented to Margery PERHAM. Oxford: Blackwell 1963. viii 293p cloth, dj, bibliogr, VG+ & very imperial £ 14.-

25 Policing and Decolonisation. Nationalism, Politics and Police, 1917 - 1965. Ed. David Anderson et al. Manchester UP 1992. xi 227p 24cm hb, dj, index, as new. Police in Ireland, India, Palestine, Ghana, Malaya, Kenya, etc £ 14.-

26 Price, Richard: Alabi's World. Johns Hopkins UP 1990. xx 440p 24cm card cover, bibliogr, many illus, VG. Surinam in 18th cent. How Saramakas and whitefolk develop routines and institutions that allow them to live side by side. £ 10.-

27 Ransford, Oliver: The Slave Trade. The Story of Transatlantic Slavery. Newton Abbot: RU 1972. x 292p 22cm hb, dj, plates, index, map, no notes, VG+ £ 10.-

28 Richmond, Anthony: Readings in Race and Ethnic Relations. Pergamon 1972. x 340p 23cm card cover (sl bent), collection of essays, VG £ 8.-

29 Roberts, Stephen: History of French Colonial Policy (1870 - 1925). London: King 1929. xv 741p 25cm cloth, index, bibliogr, folding maps, VG+ £ 25.-

30 Russell, John: The Schools of Greater Britain. Sketches of the Educational Systems of the Colonies and India. Collins 1888. 225p illus, appendix, advertisment, VG+ £ 14.-

31 Shiva, Vandana: The Violence of the Green Revolution. Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics. Penang: 3rd World 1991. 264p 22cm hb, tables, as new £ 10.-

32 Tensions of Empire. Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Ed. F Cooper, A L Stoler. California UP 1997. xii 470p card cover, index, new £ 14.-

33 Walvin, James: Questioning Slavery. Routledge 1996. xi 202p 22cm card cover, index, bibliogr, new, a survey of the history of slavery in the Americas  12.-

34 Carnell, Francis: The Politics of the New States. A Select Annotated Bibliography with Special Reference to the Commonwealth. OUP 1961. xvi 171p 21cm, pb, indices, VG £ 6.-

35 Fogel, Robert; Engerman, S: Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Wildwood 1974. 286p 20cm cloth, sl worn ex lib copy £ 8.-

36 Scarry, M Anthony: Carter Woodson. A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood 1985. (Bio-Bibliogr in Afro-American & African Studies) xvii 224p 24cm cloth, index, appendix (£ 35.-) as new £ 18.-

37 Silva, Eduardo: Prince of the People. The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour. Transl M Ashford. Verso 1993. xii 219p 23cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, appendix, as new (£ 30.-) £ 12.-

38 Foster, Frances Smith: Written by Herself. Literary Production by African American Women 1746 - 1892. Indiana UP 1993. x 206p 24cm card cover, index, notes, VG+ £ 14.-

39 Bailey, Clinton: Bedouin Poetry. From Sinai and the Negev. Oxford: Clarendon 1991. xxii 473p 23cm, cloth, dj, plates, text partly in Arabic, as new, but binding defective (2 sections not properly joined, books opens to back of spine). new £ 60.- £ 15.-

West Indies

40 [Martín Fernández de Figueroa: Conquista delas Indias, 1512] reprint in: McKenna, James: A Spaniard in the Portuguese Indies. Harvard UP 1967. vii 288p 23cm cloth, dj, index, plates, a critical edition, translation on facing pages, commentary, and a reprint of the rare treatise, VG+ £ 24.-

41 Gikandi, Simon: Writing in Limbo. Modernism and Caribbean Literature. Cornell UP 1992. x 260p 23cm cloth, dj, index, new: Selvon, Carpentier, Marshall, Lamming etc £ 14.-

42 [Harris, Wilson] The Literate Imagination. Essays on the Novels of Wilson Harris. Ed. Michael Gilkes. Macmillan 1989 (Warwick Univ Caribbean Studies) 180p card cover index, bibliogr, as new, incl an essay by W Harris £ 10.-

43 Hill, Clifford: West Indian Migrants and the London Churches. OUP/Inst Race Relations 1963. xi 89p 18cm card cover, tables, appendix, author inscription, VG £ 10.-

44 [Jamaica] Jamaica Herald, Thursday May 21, 1835. The case Mr Hall who was fined for calling his negro servant a "hussey", letters to the editor re meaning of that word, also poetry (from a Lady's album), Phadde & his friends (continued), advertisement, sl creasing, a few words effaced, altog VG, with

45 The Morning Journal. Kingston 24 June 1864. 4p fol, advertisment, extended & very sharp editorial on the inauguration of the new Govenor. sl creasing, altog VG, together £ 32.-

46 Keens-Douglas, Paul: Tell me Again. Dialect Poetry and Short Stories. Trinidad 1979. 125p 19cm card cover, musical notation, photogr, VG £ 12.-

47 Moyse, Raymond (Ed.): Haïti. The First Negro Republic in the World. Her True Face. Port au Prince ?1970. 160p 28cm, cloth gilt, many plates in colour, fancy velvet endpapers, VG £ 13.-

48 Peach, Ceri: West Indian Migration to Britain. A Social Geography. OUP/ Institute of Race Relations 1968. xvii 122p 22cm cloth, dj, index, appendices, tables, VG+ £ 12.-

49 Post, Ken: Arise Ye Starvelings. The Jamaican Labour Rebellion of 1938 and its Aftermath. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1978. viii 502p 24cm card cover, index, bibliogr, as new, incl an historical account of Jamaica in the 19th century £ 15.-

50 Searle, Chris: The Forsaken Lover. White Words and Black People. Routledge 1972. ix 108p 22cm hb, dj, VG. The experience to teaching English in Tobago (West Indies) £ 10.-

51 Selvon, Samuel: A Brighter Sun. Longman Carabbean 1972. 215p card cover, VG: Trinidad 1939 - 1945 £ 14.-

52 Small Islands, Large Questions. Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean. Ed. Karen Fog Olwig. Cass 1995. 200p hb, dj, index, map, index, as new £ 15.-

53 Smith, Raymond: The Negro Family in British Guiana. Family Structure and Social Status in the Villages. RKP 1965. xvi 282p cloth, dj (tatters), plates, illus, index, VG+ £ 12.-

54 Watts, David: The West Indies. Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492. CUP 1990. (Cambr Studies in Hist Geogr) xxi 609p 24cm card cover, maps, tables, illus, stamped, VG £ 15.-

55 Waugh, Alec: The Sunlit Caribbean. Evans 1953. cloth, dj, plates, VG £ 10.-

56 Waugh, Alec: The Sugar Islands. A Collection of Pieces written about the West Indies 1927 - 1953. Cassell 1958. 319p 23cm hb, lib bookplate, VG £ 8.-

India

57 Aitken, E H: Concerning Animals and other Matters. With a Memoir of EHA by W Bannerman. Murray 1914. xxv 196p cloth gilt, plates, VG+ 1st ed. The colonist as naturalist £ 14.-

58 Aitken, E H: Behind the Bungalow. Thacker 1907. 159p + 60p publishers cat, illus, VG £ 12.-

59 Alvares, Claude: Science, Development and Violence. The Revolt against Modernity. Delhi: OUP, 1992. ix 186p 22cm cloth, dj, index, stamped, VG. The myth of development, "Science and Himsa" £ 10.-

60 Baker, Samuel W: Eight Years in Ceylon. New Ed. Longman 1898. (Silver Library) xvi, 376p 20cm cloth, illus, VG £ 15.-

61 Barr, Pat: Taming the Jungle. The Men who made British Malaya. RU 1977. 172p 22cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, clean ex lib copy £ 5.-

62 Chamberlain, M E: Britain and India. The Interaction of Two Peoples. Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1974. 272p 23cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG. A profit and loss account of reciprocal influences £ 12.-

63 Davids, Rhys: Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by some points in the History of Indian Buddhism. Longmans 1891. (Hibbert Lecture 1881) xi 262p 22cm cloth gilt, firm & fresh ex lib £ 12.-

64 Davies, A Mervin: Clive of Plassey. A Biography. Nicholson 1939. xi 522p 24cm cloth, dj, maps, plates, index, appendix, 1st Viceroy & founder of British India £ 16.-

65 Desai, Mahendra: Literatures of India. offprint 1954, 20p VG £ 6.-

66 India under Lord Ellenborough, March 1842 - June 1844. A Selection from the hitherto unpublished Papers and Secret Despatches of Edward Earl of Ellenborough. Ed. A Law. Murray 1926. 211p 23cm cloth (top of spine sl damaged), frontisp, library label, VG, nice book £ 10.-

67 Husain, Iqbal: The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela Chieftaincies in 18th Century India. Delhi: OUP, 1994. xii 253p 22cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, stamped £ 14.-

68 Irschick, Eugene: Politics and Social Conflict on South India. The Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Seperatism, 1916 - 1929. California UP 1969. xiv 424p 24cm cloth, dj (dusty), index, bibliogr, map, VG £ 14.-

69 Islam, Nazrul: The Fiery Lyre. transl by Abdul Hakim. Dacca: Bangkla 1974. 176p hb, dj, VG+ £ 12.-

69i Joshi, Shashi; Josh, B: Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920 - 1947. Culture, Community and Power. vol 3 (of 3) only, covering the period from 1941 - 1947. 403p 23cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, VG £ 10.-

70 Kalpagam, U: Labour and Gender. Survival in Urban India. New Delhi: Sage 1994. 208p 22cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, as new (30.-) £ 12.-

71 Kaur, Manmohan: Women in India's Freedom Struggle. New Delhi: Sterling 1992. viii 302p 21cm cloth, dj, VG+. 1857 - 1947 £ 12.-

72 King, Christopher: One Language, Two Scripts. The Hindi Movement in 19th Century North India. Bombay: OUP 1994. xi 232p 23cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, chronology, as new £ 15.-

73 Majumdar, R C; et al: An Advanced History of India. Macmillan 1949. 3 vols (Ancient India; Delhi Sultanante & the Mughul Empire; Modern India) 20cm cloth (sl soiled) indices, illus, tables, bibliogr, folding maps, a VG ex lib set £ 25.-

74 Matthews, Basil: The Secret of the Raj. Missionary Soc 1916?. 144p 17cm coth, plates, Preface "To Boys", India as glorious field of service £ 6.-

75 McPherson, Kenneth: The Muslim Microcosm: Calcutta, 1918 - 1935. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1974. vii 162p 24cm card cover, maps, bibliogr, index, VG+ £ 10.-

76 Mehta, Rama: The Life of Keshav. A Family Story from India. Angus 1971. 152p hb, dj, glossary, VG £ 8.-

77 Moorhouse, Geoffrey: India Britannica. Harvill 1983. 288p hb, dj, index, chronology, many plates, also in colour, a comprehensive presentation up to 1948 £ 12.-

78 Mughal Documents, 1526 - 1617. Ed. S R I Tirmizi. New Delhi: Manohar 1989. 255p 23cm cloth, index, appendices, bibliogr, commentary, VG+ £ 12.-

79 Pandit, D P: Earning One's Livelihood in Mahuva. Asia Pub 1965. (Dep Sociology, Univ Baroda) xii 96p 23cm hb, dj, many tables, microsociology of a changing economy £ 12.-

80 Plain Tales from the Raj. Images of British India in the 20th Century. Ed. Charles Allen. Newton Abbot: RU, 1976. 240p 22cm cloth, dj, plates, illus, based on an aclaimed BBC programme £ 14.-

81 Pocock, D F: Mind, Body and Wealth. A Study of Belief and Practice in an Indian Village. Oxford: Blackwell 1973. xv 187p 23cm cloth, dj, VG+ £ 10.-

82 Poitras, Genell: (Ed & Trans) The Cruel City, and other Korean Short Stories. xix 150p cloth, dj, as new £ 10.-

83 Pottinger, George: Mayo. Disraeli's Viceroy. Russell 1990. 224p 22cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, as new £ 10.-

84 Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth: Three Continents. Murray 1987. 384p hb, edges smokesoiled, pencil marks £ 6.-

85 Ramaya, Shona: Beloved Mother, Queen of the Night. Secker & Warburg 1993. 261p 22cm card cover, new, stories set in the cultural and political chaos of contemporary India £ 8.-

86 Rao, S Venugopal: Baton and the Pen. Four Decades with the Indian Police. Delhi: Konark 1993. 233p 22cm cloth, dj, VG+. A policeman remembers £ 8.-

87 Ray, Satyajit: Stories. Secker 1987. xii 190p 21cm hb, dj, as new 1st ed. Calcutta film-maker and writer £ 10.-

88 Singh, Rana P B: Where Cultural Symbols Meet. Literary Images of Varanasi. Varanasi: Tara 1989. 246p 22cm cloth, dj, index, notes, VG+ £ 12.-

89 Spindler, Reinhard: New York und der Amerikanische Indienhandel (1784 - 1812). Stuttgart 1994. (Beitr Südasienforsch 161) xv 601p 24cm wrappers, maps, tables, bibliogr, archival sources, calendar of traffic 1784 - 1812, 100p list of goods transported, index, summary, VG+ £ 14.-

90 Tagore, Rabindranath: The Crescent Moon. Macmillan 1914. 82p 20cm cloth decor gilt (nice), spine w/ shelfmark, ex lib, colour plates £ 12.-

91 Tagore, Rabindranath: Stray Birds, frontisp Willy Pogány. Macmillan 1917. 84p, 20cm, VG (1st GB edition) £ 12.-

92 Towards a Sociology of Culture in India. Essays in Honour of D P Mukerji. Ed. T Unnithan et el. Delhi: Prentice Hall 1965. xii 441p 23cm cloth, dj, VG £ 12.-

93 Sunity Devee, Maharani of Cooch Behar: The Autobiography of an Indian Princess. Murray 1921. 252p 22cm cloth, plates, index, VG+ £ 12.-

94 Tähtinen, Unto: Ahimsa. Non-Violence in Indian Tradition. Rider 1976. xii 148p 22cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG £ 10.-

95 Wagle, Narendra; Kulkarni, A R: Vallabha's Parasarama Caritra: An 18th Century Maratha History of the Peswas. Bombay: Prakashan, 1976. xii 164p 22cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, appendix, text in Sanskrit & translation, notes £ 8.-

96 The Wondrous Crest-Jewel In Performance. Text and Translation of the Ascaryacudamani of SAKTIBHADRA with the Kutiyattam Production Manual. Ed. Clifford Reis Jones. Delhi: OUP, 1984. xix 239p, 23cm, cloth, dj, as new, stamped, text in Engl & Sanskrit £ 14.-

97 Woodruff, Philip: The Men who Ruled India. Vol 2: The Guardians. Cape 1954. 385p 23cm cloth, index, maps, plates, VG+, covers 1858 - 1943 £ 12.-

98 Beck, David: (Ed.) Recent Chinese Studies of the Boxer Movement. = CHINESE Studies in History 20, 3-4, 1987. 222p 23cm card cover, xerox glossary laid in VG+ £ 10.-

Africa

99 African Systems of Science, Technology and Art. The Nigerian Experience. Ed. G Thomas-Emeagwali. Karnak 1993. 143p 22cm card cover, illus, notes, as new £ 6.-

100 African Writers on African Writing. Ed. G D Killam. Heinemann 1963. x 172p 22cm hb, dj, VG+ publisher's file copy £ 14.-

101 Akyeampong, Emmanuel: Drink, Power, and Cultural Changes. A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana since 1800. Portsmouth: Heinemann 1996. xxiii 189p card cover, glossary, map, plates, new £ 12.-

102 Arts of West Africa. (Excluding Music) Ed. Michael Sadler. OUP/Intern Inst for African Languages & Cultures 1935. xi 96p 25cm hb, spine repaired, 32plates, bibliogr, ex lib with sm faults £ 8.-

103 The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard 1797 - 1798. Ed. A Robinson. Cape Town 1994 (Van Riebeeck Soc, 24) xix 431p 24cm cloth, dj, index, maps, illus, frontisp, as new £ 16.-

104 Barnard, Lady Anne: Letters and a Journal (1797 - 1801). Selected for Reading in Schools. Cape Town: Miller 1952. vii 223p 20cm card cover (small fault), tape stains, illus £ 6.-

105 Bassir, Olumbe: (Ed.) An Anthology of West African Verse. Ibadan Univ Press 1957. xii 68p 20cm pb, sl soiled, printed on quality paper, VG-, not common £ 16.-

106 Bell, May: They Came From a Far Land. Cape Town: Miller 1963. xv 182p 22cm hb, dj, frontisp, the life of the early settlers from a female perspective £ 12.-

107 Breytenbach, Breyten: The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist. Faber 1984. 396p 23cm hb, dj (spine sunned), VG+ 1st ed £ 14.-

108 Breytenbach, Breyten: Judas Eye and Self Portrait/Deathwatch. Faber 1988. 134p 22cm hb, dj, 1st ed as new, poems and autobiogr fragments £ 12.-

109 Carothers, J C: The Mind of Man in Africa. Stacey 1972. 192p 22cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+. African brains and African ear culture £ 12.-

110 Chomé, Jules: Mobutu, Guide Surpréme. Brussels: Complexe, 1974. 54p 20cm pb, VG, pamphlet £ 4.-

111 Christian, Carol & Plummer, Gladys: God and One Redhead. Mary Slessor of Calabar. Hodder 1970. 190p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, plates, signed, The White Queen of Okoyong, born 1848 in Aberdeen £ 15.-

112 Coetzee, J M: The Life and Times of Michael K. Secker 1983. 250p 23cm hb, VG £ 12.-

113 Coetzee, J M: The Master of Petersburgh. Secker 1994. 250p 23cm hb, dj, fine 1st ed £ 10.-

114 Congo Belge. Rapport Annuel 1915, 1916, 1917 approx 124p each, 30cm card cover dusty, tables, VG, 3 vols together £ 15.-

115 Crisp, Robert: The Outlanders. The Men who made Johannesburg. London: Davies 1964. ix 434p 23cm cloth, dj, plates, signed, authorial exhortation ("you must read it"), VG+, fresh copy £ 15.-

116 Doyle, A Conan: The Great Boer War. Two Years' Record 1899 - 1901. New Edition. Smith Elder 1901. xii 680p 23cm cloth, spine old library repair not nice, folding maps, but text clean £ 10.-

117 Enahoro, Peter: How to be a Nigerian. Daily Times of Nigeria 1981 (1966). 79p, illus, card cover, VG £ 8.-

118 Engholm, Eva: Education through English. The Use of English in African Schools. CUP 1965. 182p 8 plates, cloth, dj, VG+ £ 12.-

119 Fetscher, Caroline: Die Tropen als Text. Albert Schweizers "Zwischen Wasser und Urwald". Hamburg: EVA 1993. 168p 22cm hb, dj, bibliogr, Schweizer's metaphors, with an appendix on those of the typewriter £ 8.-

120 Foster, Frances Smith: Written by Herself. Literary Production by African American Women 1746 - 1892. Indiana UP 1993. x 206p 24cm card cover, index, notes, VG+ £ 18.-

121 Franklin, N N: Economics in South Africa. OUP 1954. 247p 19cm hb, dj, index, tables, VG+ £ 8.-

122 Ghanem, Fathy: The Man who lost his Shadow. A Novel in Four Books. Trans D Stewart. Heinemann 1985 (African Writers) 352p 18cm pb as new £ 3.-

123 Ghezzi, Carla: La letteratura Africana nella biblioteca dell'Istituto Italo-Africano. Catalogo delle opere di autori africani. Roma: Pioda, 1993. 168p 24cm pb, index, as new £ 16.-

124 Glassman, Jonathon: Feasts and Riot. Revelry, Rebellion and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856 - 1888. Heinemann etc 1995. (Social History of Africa) xvii 292p 24cm half cloth, dj, illus, bibliogr, index, as new. Pre-colonial social conflicts £ 15.-

125 Görög, Veronika: Littérature Orale d'Afrique Noire. Bibliographie Analytique. Paris: Maisonneuve 1981. 394p 25cm card cover, indices, appendix, VG, abstracts of more than 2000 items £ 24.-

126 Hinderer, Anna: Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country. Memorials of Anna Hinderer, Wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, gathered from her Journals and Letters, with an introduction by Richard Hone. Second ed. Seeley etc, 1873. xi 343p 19cm, map, frontisp, illus, binding repaired £ 32.-

127 Hinfelaar, Hugo: Bemba Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change. (1892 - 1992). Leiden: Brill 1994. xiv 224p 24cm cloth, dj, as new (£ 45.-) £ 12.-

128 Jabavu, Noni: Drawn in Colour. African Contrasts. Murray 1960. xii 208p 22cm cloth, protected dj, map, VG+ ex lib £ 10.-

129 Jackson, Stanley: The Great Barnato. Heinemann 1970. xv 278p 23cm cloth index, maps, plates, tables, the African careers of a rag to riches financier, 1852 - 1897 £ 14.-

130 Jahn, Janheinz: Through African Doors. Experiences & Encounters in West Africa. transl from German. NY: Grove 1969. 235p 23cm pb, maps, plates, VG+ £ 12.-

131 Janson, Tore; Tsonope, J: Birth of a National Language. The History of Setswana. Heinemann Botswana, Nir UP 1991. vi 165p 19cm card cover, index, bibliogr, lists, as new: £ 14.-

132 Jones, A M: Studies in African Music. 2 vols. OUP 1976. I: 293p 23cm hb, dj, index, many plates, folding tables, map; II: 238p hb, dj torn, 23cm oblong, scores. VG+, unused ex lib set £ 32.-

133 Kiewiet, C W de: A History of South Africa, Social and Economic. OUP 1941. xii 292p 24cm cloth, index, maps, bibliogr, VG+ copy £ 16.-

134 King, Kenneth James: Pan-Africanism and Education. A Study of Race Philanthropy and Education in the Southern States of America and East Africa. Oxford: Clarendon 1971. xii 296p 23p cloth, index, bibliogr, plates, maps, VG+ £ 20.-

135 Lessing, Doris: The Sirian Experiments. Cape 1982. 288p 22cm hb VG £ 6.-

136 Lessing, Pieter: The African Kaleidoscope. NY: McBride 1962. 382p 23cm hb, dj, plates, index, VG. Account of a changing continent, based of 12 months of travelling through Africa £ 10.-

137 Maguire, G Andrew: Toward `Uhuru' in Tanzania. The Politics of Participation. CUP 1969. (Cambr Commonw Studies) xxix 403p 23cm cloth, dj, index, notes, bibliogr, VG+, a micro-politcal study of the consequences of political independence £ 14.-

138 Mahood, M M: Joyce Cary's Africa. Methuen 1964. viii 206p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, illus from the letters, newspaper cutting, VG+ £ 18.-

139 Malami, Alhaji Shehu: Nigerian Memories. An Insight into Some Aspects of Nigerian Public Life. Cass 1986. xii 139p 21cm card cover, plates, author inscription, VG £ 5.-

140 Maugham, Robin: North African Notebook. Chapman & Hall 1948. 146p cloth, plates, sl worn ex lib copy, with a chapter about Tangier £ 8.-

141 Mkufya, W E: The Wicked Walk. Tanzania Pub 1977. 132p pb, sl worn: Life in Dar es Salaam £ 12.-

142 Mwase, George Simeon: Strike a Blow and Die. A Narrative of Race Relations in Colonial Africa. Ed. Robert Rotberg. Harvard UP 1967. ix 135p cloth, dj, index, VG w/ some pencil marks £ 12.-

143 Nadel, S F: A Black Byzantium. The Kindom of Nupe in Nigeria. OUP/IAI 1965. (1942) xv 420p 23cm hb (sl soiled) maps, plates, illus, index, VG £ 12.-

144 Narayan, R K: The Talkative Man. A Novel. Heinemann 1986. 123p 21cm hb, dj, VG+ ex lib £ 8.-

145 Negro Verse. Ed. Anselm Hollo. Studio Vista 1969. 48p 18cm card cover, as new £ 8.-

146 Nicol, Mike: A Good-Looking Corpse. Secker & W 1991. 401p 24cm hb, dj, plates, index, VG+. The World of Drum. Jazz & Gangsters, hope & defiance in the townships in the 50ies £ 12.-

147 [Nigeria] Reflections. Nigerian Prose and Verse. Ed. Frances Ademola. Lagos: African UP 1962. 123p card cover, VG+ £ 15.-

148 Nkrumah, Kwame: Conscientism. Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization and Development with particular Reference to the African Revolution. Heinemann 1964. vi 122p 22cm hb, index, VG £ 16.-

149 Okigbo, Christopher: Heavensgate. Drawings by D Nwoko. Ibadan: Mbari 1962. 39p card cover, VG. Poems £ 10.-

150 Oliver, Richard; Atmore, Anthony: The African Middle Ages, 1400 - 1800. CUP 1981. viii 216p 23cm cloth, dj, index, maps, VG+ £ 15.-

151 Peacy, Betty (Preface): Glory of the Cape. A Pictorial Review of Cape Town and the Peninsula. Pretoria: Haum (1960?). x 56p 22cm, clothb boards, dj (worn) £ 8.-

152 Phelan, John: Apartheid Media. Disinformation and Dissent in South Africa. Westport: Hill 1987. xi 220p 21cm card cover, index, bibliogr, appendix, VG £ 8.-

153 Post, Laurens van der: Venture to the Interior. Hogarth 1952. xiii 242p 21cm cloth, dj, a bit dusty £ 6.-

154 Post, Laurens: The Lost World of the Kalahari. Penguin 1966. 253p 18cm card cover transp film, VG+ ex lib £ 5.-

155 Post, Laurens: The Night of the New Moon. Hogarth 1970. 157p 19cm hb, protected dj, plates, VG+ ex lib. 6 Aug 1945, Hiroshima £ 10.-

156 Post, Laurens: Yet Being Someone Other. Hogarth 1982. 352p 23cm hb, VG £ 8.-

157 Ranger, A: (et al) Beyond the Waters that Thunder. A Book About Northern Rhodesia. Univ Mission 1932. 64p 19cm cloth, 11 plates VG £ 5.-

158 Roscoe, Adrian: Uhuru's Fire. African Literature East to South. CUP 1977. vii 281p index, notes, card cover, VG: study of contemporary African literature £ 16.-

159 Rout, Leslie: The African Experience in Spanish America. 1502 to the Present Day. CUP 1976. (CLAS 23) xv 404p 22cm cloth, dj, tables, illus, index, VG+ £ 14.-

160 Schreiner, Olive: The Story of an African Farm. Hutchinson ?1895. xv 346p cloth fresh, spine gilt, frontisp, name in ink, a lovely copy £ 20.-

161 Schweitzer, Albert: On the Edge of the Primeval Forest & More from the Primeval Forest. Experience and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa. Black 1951. 222p 23cm cloth 35plates (including one with a piano on a canoe), ex lib VG £ 10.-

162 Sex Roles, Population and Development in West Africa. Policy-Related Studies on Work and Demographical Issues. Ed. Christine Oppong. Heinemann/Internat Labour Org 1987. xii 242p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, as new. Women's Work in Nigeria £ 14.-

163 Smith, Ken: Alfred Aylward, The Tireless Agitator. Johannesburg: Donker, 1983. 160p 23cm hb, dj, pl, index, sources. South African affairs of the 1870s. Signed copy, VG £ 12.-

164 Smith, Prudence: (Ed.) Africa in Transition. Some BBC talks on the Changing Conditions in the Union and the Rhodesias. Reinhardt 1958. xi 179p 20cm cloth, dj, VG £ 6.-

165 Soyinka, Wole: Myth, Literature and the African World. CUP 1990. (Canto) xii 168p 22m card cover, stamped, VG £ 8.-

166 Soyinka, Wole: The Interpreters. Deutsch 1965. 254p hb, glossary, still VG £ 12.-

167 Soyinka, Wole: Isara. A Voyage around "Essay." Methuen 1990. 262p 23cm hb, VG £ 12.-

168 Stern, James: The Heartless Land. Macmillan 1932. ix 262p 22cm cloth, dj, VG+. Short stories, set in South Africa, reactions to the brutalities of man and nature £ 16.-

169 Tutuola, Amos: The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town. Faber 1981. 205p card cover, VG. Yoruba Myth Nigerian literature £ 8.-

170 Underwood, Leon: Figures in Wood of West Africa. Tiranti 1964. 48p plus 64 plates, 18cm cloth, index, bibliogr, VG+ ex lib copy £ 10.-

171 Documentos para el estudio de los Esclavos Negros en Venezuela. Ed. & Intro Ermila Troconis de Veracoechea. Caracas 1987. xlii 348p 23cm card cover, indices, 2nd edition, as new £ 18.-

172 Western, John: Outcast Cape Town. Allen & Unwin/ Minnesota UP 1981. xvi 372p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, many illus, geographical and urbanistical study of Apartheid in action £ 18.-

173 Women and Development in Africa. Comparative Perspectives. Ed. Jane L Parpart. Dalhousie UP 1989. viii 345p 23cm cloth, compreh survey, incl also essays on Canada, black US women, India, Latin America etc (£ 54.-) £ 16.-

174 Xitu, Uanhenga: The Worlds of Mestre Tamoda. Introd A Jacinto, transl from Portugese A McDermott. R I 1988. vi 158p 19cm hb, dj, as new £ 10.-

Australian/Canada

(For Canada see also our American Studies list)

175 Australian Autobiographical Narrative. An Annotated Bibliography. Vol 1: To 1850. Comp. K Walsh, Joy Hooton. Canberra: NLA 1995. 178p 25cm card cover, abstracts, indices, as new. £ 18.-

176 Humston, Shep: Kuranda. The Village in the Rainforest, 1888 - 1988. Brisbane: Ferguson 1988. 142p 27cm hb, dj, index, plates throughout, some in colour, VG £ 12.-

177 Carey, Peter: Oscar & Lucinda. Faber 1989. 511p 21cm pb, sl worn £ 4.-

178 Gray, Ian: Politics in Place. Social Power Relations in an Australian Country Town. CUP 1991. ix 214p 24cm hb, dj, as new, structures of empowerment in local government £ 10.-

179 Hasluck, Alexandra: Portrait in a Mirror. An Autobiography. Melbourne: Oxford UP 1979. 329p 23cm hb, dj, many illus, index, VG+, an Australian life by an Australian historian £ 12.-

180 Into The Hollow Mountains. Ed. Mark Gillespie, Photogr Robert Ashton. Fitzroy: Outback Press 1974. 96p 28cm card cover, many photographs, "inner suburban" literary magazine £ 8.-

181 Martin, Ged: Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Abductor and Mystagoge. Edinburgh: Barry 1997. 56p card cover, bibliogr, notes, interesting analysis of (co-) founder of New Zealand £ 10.-

182 Mccure, John Bunyan: Life in England and Australia. Reminiscences of Travels and Voyages over 100 000 Miles or, Forty Years in the Wilderness. London: Banks / Cambridge: Author 1876. xii 534p 18cm cloth w/ minor faults, binding weak, original £ 24.-

183 Moorhouse, Frank: Tales of Mystery and Romance. Sidney: Angus 1977. 147p 18cm pb, ex lib, VG+ £ 5.-

184 Porter, Hal: The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony. An Australian Autobiogr. Faber 1963. cloth, dj, 1st ed, VG £ 12.-

185 Richardson, Henry Handel [=Ethel Florence R.] The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. A Trilogy. Heinemann 1931. 990p ex lib rebound, VG+ £ 14.-

186 Richardson, Henry Handel: The Getting Of Wisdom. Heinemann 1960 (1910). 237p hb, ex lib, VG £ 8.-

187 Spotlight on Australia. Ed. Australian Publicity Council (?1965) 240p (?) 26cm many plates also in colour throughout, a lovely period piece £ 12.-

188 Swain, Tony: A Place for Strangers. Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being. CUP 1993. xi 303p 24cm hb, dj, maps, index, VG+ (35.-) Reconstructs Aboriginal worldview prior to their contact with other peoples £ 16.-

189 Torre, Stephen: The Australian Short Story, 1940 - 1980. A Bibliography. Sydney: Hale 1984. 376p 22cm, hb, dj, as new £ 20.-

190 Walker, Kate: We Are Going. Poems. Brisbane: Jacaranda 1965. 43p 22cm hb, dj, first (?) book of aboriginal poetry £ 10.-

191 N L Mcleod, B M Farland (Eds): Wellington Prospect. Survey of a City 1840 - 1970. Wellington: Hicks Smith, 1970. 231p 25cm boards, dj, illus, index bibliogr £ 10.-

192 Patrick White Speaks. Ed. Paul Brennan. Cape 1990. 210p 24cm hb, dj, plates, index, as new £ 14.-

193 Balan, Jars: Identifications. Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada. Alberta University 1982. xii 158p 22cm card cover, focus on Ukranian influences £ 8.-

194 Canadian Constitutional Development, shown by Selected Speeches & Despatches. Ed. H E Egerton, W Grant. Murray 1907. xxii 472p 22cm cloth ex lib VG £ 8.-

195 Gowers, Ruth: Emily Carr. Leamington: Berg 1987. 126p 19cm hb, dj, index, chronology, bibliogr, plates, new £ 8.-

196 Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol XII (covering personalities who died between 1881 & 1900, the last vol of the first series) Toronto UP 1990. xxix 1320p 25cm cloth (tiny faults); together with INDEX to vols I - XII. 557p 26cm cloth VG, much book for a song £ 16.-

197 Foster, Gilbert: Language and Poverty. The Persistence of Scottish Gaelic in Eastern Canada. Newfoundland University, ISER, 1988. 138p 22cm card cover, bibliogr, illus, maps, VG+ £ 12.-

198 Longstreath, C Morris: The Force Carries on. (Sequel to The Scarlet Force). Toronto: Macmillan 1954 (Great Stories of Canada). 182p hb, illus, ex school lib £ 6.-

199 Kociejowski, Marius: The Machine Minders. Illus Maureen Sugrue. Vancouver 1986 (Tanks 1.1). 12p 26cm paper cover, How literature became copy, Against state literature, fresh lib duplicate £ 6.-

200 Weaver, R: (Ed.) Canadian Short Stories. OUP 1960 (World Classics). xiii 420p 16cm, cloth, dj, VG £ 6.-

201 [Alaska] A Republic of Rivers. Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon. Ed. John A Murray. New York: OUP 1990. xv 325p 24cm hb, dj, map, stamped, as new £ 10.-

202 Scarr, Deryck: Viceroy of the Pacific. The Majesty of Colour: A Life of Sir John Bates Thurston. xii 334p 24cm card cover, index, bibliogr, illus, VG+. Fiji, 1875 - 1897 £ 10.-