THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN / THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE
First edition of this collaborative record of the authors' travels in East Africa from Sudan to the Kenyan Rift Valley, with text by Matthiessen and striking color photographs by Porter.
First edition of this collaborative record of the authors' travels in East Africa from Sudan to the Kenyan Rift Valley, with text by Matthiessen and striking color photographs by Porter.
Anthology published to benefit Spanish Republicans in their fight against Franco via the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, an outgrowth of American Communist relief organizing.
Uncommon first US edition and first English translation of this major work by the French medieval historian, with an admiring foreword by Katherine Anne Porter.
First edition of this history of Arab and European invasions and occupations of the African continent, with great attention to the eventual British opposition to the slave trade.
First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps.
First edition of this hunting and wildlife manual published by the government of what was formerly Italian Somaliland, illustrated with the faces, figures, and footprints of the Bat-Eared Fox, Common Genet, assorted antelopes and others, many of which are protected.
First edition of the world-famous "Diary of a Young Girl," a moving monument of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's cataclysmic destruction of individual lives, communities, and cultures.
First edition of this anthology of African, Arab, European, and Asian historical sources, from Pharaonic inscriptions to twentieth-century accounts.
First edition of this study of world civilization meant for a popular audience.
Deluxe limited first edition, in a striking Art Deco binding, of this midcentury popular history of England.
First paperback printing of this 1958 account of capturing and handing over for execution the leader of the Mau Mau uprising by proud British imperialist and 'Butcher of Bahrain' Ian Henderson, assisted by Conservative MP Goodhart.
Original annotated photograph album of the Buchenwald concentration camp compiled by an anonymous American G.I. soon after liberation.
Reprint of Brown's 1924 study of Easter Island archaeology and ethnology.
First edition of this comical post-war chronicle of culture shock, a witty survey of the everyday differences that US servicemen will experience at home after living in occupied Japan.
First edition of Ballinger's investigation of Nan Madol, a Micronesian "monolithic stone corpse of a city" identified as a remnant of the lost continent Mu by James Churchward and his followers.
First printing of this history of Christiano Jr.'s photographs of African enslaved people and laborers in Brazil, a collection he sold as a souvenir to European tourists — a rare title.
First edition in English of this reflection on the tactics and methods used by General George Grivas in the the liberation of Cyprus and elsewhere – a rare title, particularly in dust jacket.
First printing of this history of various artforms in Nigeria, including beadwork, brass work, carving, pottery, and weaving – illustrated with photographs of objects and diagrams by Michael Foreman.
Album of photographs chronicling the activity of the Hambros Bank after it was evacuated to an estate at the start of WWII — once owned by a Hambros employee and likely produced by them for workers.
First printing of the first volume in Campbell's four-volume work, THE MASKS OF GOD, examining cultural variations on the so-called "monomyth."
Calendar of the Jewish year 5703 (1942-43), issued by the Synagogue of Turin for the period in which that synagogue would be destroyed by Allied bombardment.
First edition of this historical overview and contemporary portrait of social, religious, and domestic life in Turkey of the early 20th century.
Colonial-era introduction for Francophone readers to the annual holidays and religious observances in Cambodia, with a pamphlet for the Office des Arts Cambodiens laid in.
First printing of this beautifully illustrated history of the Blackfeet people, as told by the Montanan ethnographer and Native ally.
First edition of this brief publication dedicated to a select number of Germans fallen in World War II, accompanied by an original signed woodcut by Gerhard Marcks.