New Inventory 02/15/2021

New Inventory 02/15/2021

Fire & Water, A Life of Peter the Great, by Alex De Jonge Hum, Strum, Swing ‘n Sing Gold! Gold!, by Joseph F. Petralia Anchor Manual of Needlework, by Anonymous Recording Britain, Volume III, Oxford University Press The Making of the African Queen, Katharine Hepburn Katherine Hepburn Kenneth N. Walker,…

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Video: Old & Rare Books, Box 23. Ed Augusts Books

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? Box 23 Precipitous City Of Mice And Men The Orientalist Doctor Rameau The Blessed Bees Listen Comrades: Life and Death in the Soviet Union Essays & Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce On Safari Christian Zen The Black Journey Across Central Africa with the…

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Radio Show – – 09/01/2017 – Ancient Egyptian Art

Friday 09/01/2017 – 6pm EDT, 3pm PDT ? Ed Augusts’ World of Books, History, Ancient Knowledge, World Politics, & a little Esoterica   Ancient Egyptian Art Beautiful ancient Egyptian art turns our minds to a meditation on the warming, benevolent powers of the Great Sphinx, as well as the idea…

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Some Letters from Livingstone 1840-1872

Livingstone, David. Edited by David Chamberlin. Some letters from Livingstone, 1840 – 1872; with an introduction by R. Coupland. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. xvii+280p., illustrated with facsimiles of letters, map, and several drawings. Sixty-eight letters. Includes list of books about Livingstone and the Arab slave trad. A fine…

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The Land and Peoples of the Kasai

Hilton-Simpson, M. W. The Land and Peoples of the Kasai.  Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardback. Reprint of the 1956 original edition. Brown cloth binding stamped in gilt on spine. Very good to fine condition throughout. One of four books from Negro Universities Press, all without a trace of wear, and…

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The Black Journey: Across Central Africa with the Citroën expedition

Georges-Marie Haardt. The Black Journey: Across Central Africa with the Citroën Expedition. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. 326 pgs Complete with photos and maps. A fine copy in original cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. No dust-jacket, as issued. Famous trans-Africa 1920’s expedition from Algeria to Capetown, in…

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