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.
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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 the first book in the Pall Mall World Affairs Special Series, written by the representative of the British Foreign Service to the Somali Republic after the termination of British rule in 1960.
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.
Inscribed copy of Faine's major work on Haitian Créole, the second edition with an additional folk tale and supplementary glossary of words of African origin, warmly presented to American cultural attaché Homer Gayne.
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.
Uncommon official publication of the Somali government summing up its achievements during the first three and a half years of independence, with an appendix of addresses by the Prime Minister.
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.
Rare second edition of Moran's fanciful thesis on the lunar zodiacal origins of the phonetic alphabet, published together with Kelley's briefer "American Parallels," on the relationship between the calendar systems of Eurasia, Oceania, and Mesoamerica.
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.
Inscribed first printing of this beautifully illustrated selection of over four centuries of maps of the Persian Gulf, compiled by the geographically minded ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah.
Finely bound set of first editions of the complete history of World War II by one of its central players.
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.
First printing of this history of magicians, entertainers, curiosities, and the just plain weird, by sleight-of-hand master Ricky Jay.
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.
