2008, ISBN: 9780698109360

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1966. Book. Illus. by Endpaper Map,12 Pages Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine br… Mehr…

Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1966. Book. Illus. by Endpaper Map,12 Pages Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine brown cloth with bright gilt title on unfaded spine and no edgewear. Dustjacket very good, NOT price clipped, but some fading. No prior owner signature, internally very clean. Includes chapters on political parties, foreign policy, language and identity, the role of Islam in modern North Africa, rapid urbanization , trade unionism, the rural system of the Maghrib, economic planning, oil in the North African economy and the colonial imprint.., Middle East Institute, 1966, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Fine Binding if brown half cloth with gilt titles, cream boards, clean, no marks, tight& solid, square with sharp corners. .Stamp mark on top edge of text block amdscuff on the front endpaper, otherwise in FINE Condition. Jacket is bright and clean, with closed tear on upper front corner, not price clipped. In powerful language, Manning evokes and portrays South Africans of every race and class and outlook. Manning was Newsweek's Johannesburg bureau chief and was expelled in June 1986, apparently for his honet reporting on the English-speaking world in that tortured nation. His is a picture of South Africa in torment. His eyewitness report of South Africa in those turbulent times is a compassionate report of the harsh truths and realities of South African agony. 255 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 1987., Houghton Mifflin, 1987, Enicrownfit Publ. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities., Enicrownfit Publ, Kisumu, Kenya: Evangel Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Softcover. Private owner's book plate inside the front cover. ; 161 pages ., Evangel Publishing House, 1972, London: Abacus, 1996 Further hilarious adventures of a trevlling English businessman - all the stresses of travel .airports, food, hotels. lost luggage ,taxis (and their drivers) hotels. from Athens to Africa. "Peter Biddlecombe takes us on another irreverent global tour, snubbing his nose at the "gimmick tourists" and carrying on doing what he does best-business, all over the world, with a wonderfully diverse range of characters. Power-players in Milan, storm-trooping language police in Toronto, and just general chaos in Kinshasa are a mere selection of the obstacles the international businessman must face as he struggles to come to grips with the local way of doing things. But it's all in the name of commerce, and whether he's trapped in a luxury hotel during the riots in Bombay or working his way through a "Good Food Guide" to Ouagadougou, Peter Biddlecombe always comes out with a tale to tell.". Soft Cover. Very Good., Abacus, 1996, William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1980. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint 1980. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small creases and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1980, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. : University of California Press, 1971 Octavo, softcover, VG to near fine. Giftable. About Africa, the feats and deeds of Mwindo with complete text of an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of the Eastern Congo. A richly poetic epic in prose form interspersed with songs and proverbs in verse.. Very Good/Unknown., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. : University of California Press, 1971, Maryknoll, New York.: Orbis Books.. Near Fine. 2008. Softcover. 9781570754043 . 8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; xii - 196 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. First published in 1976, this is the eighth printing of the twenty-fifth aniversary edition. "The portrait of Jesus that emerges introduces us to the man as he was before he became enshrined in doctrines, dogmas, and ritual. . . . this edition has been revised to take account of concerns expressed about the sexist language and assumptions of the original. " Fr. Nolan is a South African Dominican and helped with the preparation of the celebrated Kairos document, which was one of the first formulations of liberation theology to come out of South Africa. Very mid wear to the fore corners of the covers, else fine. ., Orbis Books., 2008, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Large, thin softcover, colorfully designed wrappers in red, black and gray, 118 lightly browned pages, text in French. Light crease at top front tip and pages' tips too, two tiny rubbed spots at bottom long spine left edge, very slight wear to bottom back tip. Good.. Soft Cover. Good., Cambridge University Press, 1967, Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. The boards are in a very good condition and appear as new. Internally clean and tightly bound. This tall book is complete with 234 pages. Please note: Unless posted within South-Africa we will need to ask for extra postage as this is a heavy book. German language. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1976, New York: Vanguard, 1952. First Edition. 188 Pages. Hardback. Very Good+. From a smoke free environment./Very Good. In Protective Mylar.. 1st Vanguard edition. Hardback. Intro by Arnold Bennett, preface by William Plomer. Ten tales from South Africa, of the veld in Cape Colony. This highly regarded author was given a scroll, signed by 25 authors, including Gordimer, Van der Post, Paton and Plomer, for having transcended 'the barriers of race and language and made essential humanity one' in her books., Vanguard, 1952, 288 pages with plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was an English explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Condition: Previous owner's name on front end paper, page ends soiled, some underlining. Jacket closed tear at points else a very good copy in like jacket., Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978<

1996, ISBN: 9780698109360

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1966. Book. Illus. by Endpaper Map,12 Pages Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine br… Mehr…

Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1966. Book. Illus. by Endpaper Map,12 Pages Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine brown cloth with bright gilt title on unfaded spine and no edgewear. Dustjacket very good, NOT price clipped, but some fading. No prior owner signature, internally very clean. Includes chapters on political parties, foreign policy, language and identity, the role of Islam in modern North Africa, rapid urbanization , trade unionism, the rural system of the Maghrib, economic planning, oil in the North African economy and the colonial imprint.., Middle East Institute, 1966, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Fine Binding if brown half cloth with gilt titles, cream boards, clean, no marks, tight& solid, square with sharp corners. .Stamp mark on top edge of text block amdscuff on the front endpaper, otherwise in FINE Condition. Jacket is bright and clean, with closed tear on upper front corner, not price clipped. In powerful language, Manning evokes and portrays South Africans of every race and class and outlook. Manning was Newsweek's Johannesburg bureau chief and was expelled in June 1986, apparently for his honet reporting on the English-speaking world in that tortured nation. His is a picture of South Africa in torment. His eyewitness report of South Africa in those turbulent times is a compassionate report of the harsh truths and realities of South African agony. 255 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 1987., Houghton Mifflin, 1987, Enicrownfit Publ. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities., Enicrownfit Publ, Kisumu, Kenya: Evangel Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Softcover. Private owner's book plate inside the front cover. ; 161 pages ., Evangel Publishing House, 1972, William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1980. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint 1980. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small creases and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1980, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. : University of California Press, 1971 Octavo, softcover, VG to near fine. Giftable. About Africa, the feats and deeds of Mwindo with complete text of an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of the Eastern Congo. A richly poetic epic in prose form interspersed with songs and proverbs in verse.. Very Good/Unknown., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. : University of California Press, 1971, London: Abacus, 1996 Further hilarious adventures of a trevlling English businessman - all the stresses of travel .airports, food, hotels. lost luggage ,taxis (and their drivers) hotels. from Athens to Africa. "Peter Biddlecombe takes us on another irreverent global tour, snubbing his nose at the "gimmick tourists" and carrying on doing what he does best-business, all over the world, with a wonderfully diverse range of characters. Power-players in Milan, storm-trooping language police in Toronto, and just general chaos in Kinshasa are a mere selection of the obstacles the international businessman must face as he struggles to come to grips with the local way of doing things. But it's all in the name of commerce, and whether he's trapped in a luxury hotel during the riots in Bombay or working his way through a "Good Food Guide" to Ouagadougou, Peter Biddlecombe always comes out with a tale to tell.". Soft Cover. Very Good., Abacus, 1996, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Large, thin softcover, colorfully designed wrappers in red, black and gray, 118 lightly browned pages, text in French. Light crease at top front tip and pages' tips too, two tiny rubbed spots at bottom long spine left edge, very slight wear to bottom back tip. Good.. Soft Cover. Good., Cambridge University Press, 1967, Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. The boards are in a very good condition and appear as new. Internally clean and tightly bound. This tall book is complete with 234 pages. Please note: Unless posted within South-Africa we will need to ask for extra postage as this is a heavy book. German language. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1976, New York: Vanguard, 1952. First Edition. 188 Pages. Hardback. Very Good+. From a smoke free environment./Very Good. In Protective Mylar.. 1st Vanguard edition. Hardback. Intro by Arnold Bennett, preface by William Plomer. Ten tales from South Africa, of the veld in Cape Colony. This highly regarded author was given a scroll, signed by 25 authors, including Gordimer, Van der Post, Paton and Plomer, for having transcended 'the barriers of race and language and made essential humanity one' in her books., Vanguard, 1952, 288 pages with plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was an English explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Condition: Previous owner's name on front end paper, page ends soiled, some underlining. Jacket closed tear at points else a very good copy in like jacket., Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978<

1978, ISBN: 9780698109360

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Hardcover, 288 Seiten, Publiziert: 1978T, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.45 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2057241, Travelers & Explorers, Biographies & Memoirs, Subjects, Books, C… Mehr…

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Hardcover, 288 Seiten, Publiziert: 1978T, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.45 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2057241, Travelers & Explorers, Biographies & Memoirs, Subjects, Books, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978<