Fiction set in Africa

Peter’s Africa Novel Collection.

This is a selection of fiction books set in Africa, written between 1896 and 2016. So if you want a explore how things changed over the century, then this is a good starting point. If you are interested in any book, please contact me at caro@caroayre.co.uk and give me the reference number.

“Alexandri, Maya”, THE CELEBRATION HUSBAND, TSL Publications, UK 2015, 1st, 6 x 8.5, 307, Orig. pictorial card., New, Ref 8164, £12.00

“Alfieri, Annamaria”, STRANGE GODS – A Mystery, Minotaur Books, New York, 2014, 1st, 6 x 8.5, 274,  Orig. yellow cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, New, Ref 8207, £25.00

“Baldwin, May”, KENYA KIDDIES – A Story of Settlers’ Children in East Africa, W & R Chambers, London, 1920s, “5.25 x 7.5, 500”, 284, 4 by Nina K. Brisley, Orig. red cloth, “Head and tail of spine bumped, some light spotting O/W V. Good”, Early fictional account of childrens’ life in Kenya, Ref 4711, £20.00

“Baldwin, May”, KENYA KIDDIES – A Story of Settlers’ Children in East Africa, J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1920s, 1st US, “5.25 x 7.5, 500”, 284, 4 by Nina K. Brisley, Orig. red cloth, “endpapers browned, O/W V. Good”, Early fictional account of childrens’ life in Kenya, Ref 6897, £20.00

“Ballantyne, R. M.”, BLACK IVORY – Among the Slavers of East Africa, James Nisbet & Co., London, nd c. 1900, 5.25 x 8, vi + 410 + 33 Ads, several B/W, Orig. gilt decorated purple cloth, “tear to top of spine, inscription inside cover, O/W V. Good”, Fiction, Ref7658, £15.00

“Ballantyne, R. M.”, THE GORILLA HUNTERS, Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, nd, 5 x 7.5, 224, 4 Colour, Orig. dec.green cloth, “Endpapers darkened, slight wrinkle to covers, O/W V. Good”, Fiction. Ref7707, £5.00

“Barnes, James”, RIFLE AND CARAVAN or Two Boys in East Africa, D. Appleton & Co, New York and London, 1912, 1st, 5.25 x 7.75, 326, 4 colour plates, Orig. brown and orange pictorial cloth, V. Good, Fiction – adventure story for boys, Ref 5257, £20.00

“Barnes, Simon”, ROGUE LION SAFARIS, Harper Collins, London, 1997, 1st, “5.5 x 8.75, 500”, 248,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 4109, £15.00

“Beale, Nora St. John”, THE HAZELBYS IN KENYA, George G. Harrap, London, 1935, 1st, “5.75 x 8, 500”, 256, 5, 1, Orig. brown decorated cloth, “some foxing to prelims and eps, O/W V. Good”, Novel. The author’s family were early settlers in Timau.,Ref 5387, £30.00

“Beale, Nora St. John”, FLAME AND WIND, Leonard Parsons, London, 1926, 1st, 5 x 7.75, 320,  Orig. maroon cloth, “spine faded, O/W V. Good”, Novel, Ref 7130, £35.00

“Beale, Nora St. John”, MUSTARD AND CRESS, Leonard Parsons, London, 1924, 1st, 5 x 7.75, 319,  Orig. blue cloth with tatty pictorial dust-jacket, “bumping to spine and covers, some foxing throughout, O/W Good”, Fiction, Ref 7211, £35.00

“Beale, Nora St. John”, FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE HAZELBYS, George G. Harrap, London, 1940, 1st, “5.5 x 8, 400”, 255, colour frontis. + 4 B/W drawings, Orig. blue dec. cloth, “cloth stained, O/W V. Good”, Novel for children set in Kenya – the author lived in the Nanyuki/Timau area, Ref 7250, £33.00

“Bee, David”, OUR FATAL SHADOWS – A Story of German East Africa and Tanganyika, Geoffrey Bles, London, 1964, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 500”, xvi + 414, 1, “Orig. grey cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, V. Good, Novel – excellent descriptive passages of German East Africa and the First World War, Ref 5258, £28.00

“Blake, Philippa”, MZUNGU’S WIFE, The Bodley Head, London, 1988, 1st, “5.5 x 8.75, 400”, 192,  Orig. green cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Novel set in East Africa in the late 1970s, Ref 4120, £15.00

“Blake, Philippa”, MZUNGU’S WIFE, The Bodley Head, London, 1988, 1st, “5.5 x 8.75, 400”, 192,  Orig. green cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, “Signed by the author, V. Good”, Novel set in East Africa in the late 1970s, Ref 4121, £17.00

“Bond, Mike”, THE IVORY HUNTERS, Headline Book Publishing, London, 1992, 1st, “6 x 9.5, 600”, 275,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Novel – Kenya, Ref 4669, £14.00

“Booth, Martin”, BLACK CHAMELEON, Hutchinson, London, 1988, 1st, “5.5 x 8.75, 750”, 444,  Orig. brown cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, “Fiction – relationship over the years from 1950s to 1987 between a white Kenyan boy and a Mau Mau detainee set in Kenya, Europe and Zambia”, Ref 4884, £12.00

“Boyd, William”, AN ICE-CREAM WAR, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 370, 1, Orig. blue cloth with pict. D/W, Fine, Novel of World War I in East Africa, Ref 1281, £30.00

“Bull, Bartle”, THE WHITE RHINO HOTEL, Viking, New York, 1992, 1st, 6.25 x 9.25, ix + 406, 2, Orig. beige/brown paper/cloth with worn pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Hilarious novel set in post World War I Kenya – starting to be collected, Ref 1313, £25.00

“Bull, Bartle”, A CAFE ON THE NILE – A Novel, Carroll & Graf Pubs. Inc., New York, 1998, 1st, “6 x 9.25, 900”, 466, 1 B/W Photo, 1, Orig. blue cloth & brown paper with pict. D/W, V. Good, Sequel to ‘The White Rhino Hotel’. Novel set in Egypt and Ethiopia, Ref 1812, £25.00

“Bull, Bartle”, THE WHITE RHINO HOTEL, Viking, New York, 1992, 1st, “6.25 x 9.25, 800”, ix + 406, 2, Orig. beige/brown paper/cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, “inscribed and signed by the author, V. Good”, Hilarious novel set in post World War I Kenya, Ref 3860, £50.00

“Bull, Bartle”, THE WHITE RHINO HOTEL, Viking, New York, 1992, 1st, “6.25 x 9.25, 800”, ix + 406, 2, Orig. beige/brown paper/cloth with worn pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Hilarious novel set in post World War I Kenya – now becoming collected, Ref 3869, £25.00

“Bull, Bartle”, THE DEVIL’S OASIS, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2001, 1st, “6.25 x 9.5, 800”, 336,  Orig. black/grey cloth/paper with pictorial dustwrapper, Fine, Ref 4196, £25.00

“Bull, Bartle”, A CAFE ON THE NILE – A Novel, Carroll & Graf Pubs. Inc., New York, 1998, “1st, 2nd printing”, “6 x 9.25, 900”, 466, 1 B/W Photo, 1, Orig. blue cloth & brown paper with pictorial dust-jacket, “signed dedication by the author, V. Good”, Sequel to ‘The White Rhino Hotel’. Novel set in Egypt and Ethiopia, Ref 7741, £25.00

“Bwye, J. L.”, BREATH OF AFRICA, Crooked Cat publishing, London, 2013, 1st, 5 x 8, 340,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Ref 7965, £10.00

“Cahill, James”, M’BONGA’S TREK, Lutterworth Press, London, 1947, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 128, B/W Frontis, Orig. orange cloth with tatty pictorial dust-jacket, “remains of prize label inside upper cover, O/W V. Good”, Fiction – South Africa, Ref 7779, £7.50

“Carnegie, Sacha”, THE LION AND FRANCIS CONWAY, Peter Davies, London, 1958, 1st, 5.25 x 8, 222,  “Orig. blue cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 8125, 15.00

“Carruthers, John”, MRS CARRUTHERS IS BLACK, The Book Guild, Sussex, 2005, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, vi + 355,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, Fine, Novel – Kenya & Uganda post independence – the central character marries a Ugandan, Ref 5290, £17.50

“Cartwright, Justin”, INTERIOR, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1988, 1st, “6 x 9.5, 550”, 255,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Ref 4148, £16.00

“Cartwright, Justin”, MASAI DREAMING, Macmillan, London, 1993, 1st, “6.25 x 9.5, 600”, 291,  Orig. white cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Fiction – a writer travels to Kenya to write a screenplay about an early anthropologist who was betrayed to the SS on her return to France during the war., Ref 4152, £15.00

“Cartwright, Justin”, IN EVERY FACE I MEET, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1995, 1st, “6.25 x 9.5, 500”, 218,  Orig. green cloth with dustwrapper, Fine, Novel – South Africa, Ref 4171, £16.00

“Casley, Dennis”, DEATH UNDER PAR – Chief Inspector James Odhiambo Investigates, Constable, London, 1997, 1st, “5.5 x 8.75, 400”, 205,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, Fine, Murder and mystery in Nairobi at Royal Ngong Golf Club ?!, Ref 4905, £15.00

“Casley, Dennis”, DEATH UNDERFOOT, Constable, London, 1993, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 207,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, “Signed by the author, V. Good”, Ref 7414, £20.00

“Coates, Frank”, BEYOND MOMBASA, Harper Collins, Australia, 2006, 7 x 4.5, 537,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Ref 8206, £10.00

“Collinson, Hugh”, WARRIOR’S HOARD, George G. Harrap, London, 1960, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 175, several line drawings by A. Burgess Sharrocks, “Orig. green cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, V. Good, Fiction – boys adventure story by a well known Kenya rancher, Ref 7070, £15.00

“Courtemanche, Gil”, A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI, Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2003, 1st UK, “5.5 x 8.75, 500”, 259, Orig. brown cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel – Rwandan genocide, Ref 4856 £14.00

“Courtemanche, Gil”, A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI, Canongate, Edinburgh, 2003, 1st English, 5.5 x 8.75, 261,  Orig. brown cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, Fine, Fiction – Rwandan genocide, Ref 5280, £17.50

“Creaton, David”, THE WINDS OF CHANGE, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1960, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 400”, 224, Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, Fine, Novel of Kipsigis tribe and female circumcision, Ref 3080, 15.00

“Creed, David”, THE TRIAL OF LOBO ICHEKA, Macmillan, London, 1971, 1st, 5 x 8, 255,  “Orig. tan cloth with worn, torn, pictorial dust-jacket”, “page edges browned, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7046, £5.00

“Crompton, Richard”, HELL’S GATE, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2014, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 242,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, New, detective novel set in Hell’s Gate area, Ref 8021, £15.00

“Crompton, Richard”, THE HONEY GUIDE, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2013, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 309,  Orig. maroon cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, New, detective novel set in Nairobi, Ref 8054, £15.00

“Davis, A. Kennard”, THE THREE-YARD ENSIGN, Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1963, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 188,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 5627, £18.00

“Davis, A. S. Kennard”, A FARM IN CEDAR VALLEY, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1947, 1st, 5.5 x 8, 192, drawings by Alan Blyth, Orig. orange cloth with worn dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 5999, £60.00

“Dawson, Enid”, QUADRILLE IN KENYA, Pearl Press, Ongar, 2010, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 380,  Orig. pictorial card, “slight peeling of card protection, O/W V. Good”, Fiction set in 1950s Kenya, Ref 7695, £15.00

“Drayson, Nicholas”, A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF EAST AFRICA – A Novel, Viking, London, 2008, 1st, 5.25 x 8, 202,  Orig. pictorial laminated board, V. Good, Ref 7996, £8.00

“Duncanson, Graham”, MATING LIONS, Author – Publishnation, London, 2015, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 660,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Ref 8223, £20.00

“Duncanson, Graham”, Franchesca, Author, 2016, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 178, 1, Orig. Pictorial card, New, Ref 8224, £7.50

“Duncanson, Graham”, FIONA, PublishNation, London, 2016, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 359,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Ref 8233, £15.00

“Fazakerley, G. R.”, KONGONI, Thames & Hudson, London, 1955, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 240,  Orig. maroon cloth with worn pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel – two African army deserters prior to Mau Mau, Ref 7952, £12.00

“Finn, Melanie”, AWAY FROM YOU, Penguin Books, London, 2004, 5 x 7.75, 217,  Orig. pictorial card, Ex. Lib. Stamps and label – Reading copy only, Fiction, Ref 7072, £5.00

“Foden, Giles”, ZANZIBAR, Faber & Faber, London, 2002, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 389,  Orig. green boards with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel – terrorist conspiracy and Al-Qaida in East Africa, Ref 5308, £15.00

“Foden, Giles”, ZANZIBAR, Faber & Faber, London, 2002, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 389,  Orig. green boards with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel – terrorist conspiracy and Al-Qaida in East Africa, Ref 6556, £15.00

“Foden, Giles”, ZANZIBAR, Faber & Faber, London, 2002, 1st, 5.75 x 8.25, 389,  Orig. green boards with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel – terrorist conspiracy and Al-Qaida in East Africa, Ref 6699, £10.00

“Forbes-Watson, R.”, SHIFTA !, OUP, London, 1958, “5.25 x 8, 300”, 186, drawings by Joan Kiddell-Monroe, Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, adventure story – written for young people, Ref 3141, £15.00

“Ford, Samantha”, THE HOUSE CALLED MBABATI, Createspace, 2016, 1st, 6 x 9, 330,  Orig. pictorial card, New, “Fiction – mystery, murder & revenge”, Ref 8215, £10.00

“Ford, Samantha”, THE ZANZIBAR AFFAIR, Createspace, 2016, 5 x 8, 374,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Fiction, Ref 8216, £10.00

Fripp E., MOON OVER KENYA, Eldon Press Ltd, London, c. 1930, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 271,  Orig. red cloth, “spine faded, covers slightly soiled, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7019, £35.00

“Gavron, Jeremy”, MOON, Viking, London, 1996, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 400”, 181,  Orig. brown cloth with dustwrapper, V. Good, author’s first novel set in Kenya during the 1950’s, Ref 3054, £15.00

“George, Flt. Lieut. S.C.”, THE LOST EMPIRE, Frederick Warne, London, 1937, 1st, “5.25 x 7.75, 550”, 248, Colour Frontis., Orig. red dec. cloth, “covers worn and soiled, contents V. Good“, Ref 4867, £10.00

“Golding, J. A.”, SHIFTA, The Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1993, 1st, “6 x 8.5, 400”, xii + 151, 1, Orig. black cloth with dustwrapper, V. Good, fiction – set in Somalia in 1941 and no doubt based on the author’s personal experiences, Ref 3704, £20.00

“Halkin, John”, KENYA – A Novel, Beaufort Books, New York, 1986, 1st US, 6 x 8.5, 428,  Orig. black/rose cloth/paper with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 7916, £15.00

“Hall, Mary Rose”, SELENGAI, iUniverse.Inc, New York, 2005, 1st, 6 x 9, x + 260,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Fiction set in modern day Kenya, Ref 6129, £12.00

“Hanley, Gerald”, THE YEAR OF THE LION, Collins, London, 1953, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 400”, 256,  “Orig. red cloth with worn, grubby dustwrapper”, V. Good, Novel – set in East Africa, Ref 2967, £12.00

“Hanley, Gerald”, DRINKERS OF DARKNESS, Collins, London, 1955, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 400”, 256,  Orig. black cloth with worn dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction – amusing parody of Timau club life, Ref 5647, £18.00

“Hedges, Dick”, JADE SEA B.C. – A Book of the Turkana Trilogy, Waterlane Books, Milton Keynes, 1999, “4.5 x 7, 200”, 243,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Fiction, Ref 5870, £8.50

“Hennings, R. O.”, ARNOLD IN AFRICA, Methuen, London, 1941, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 295,  Orig. black cloth, “covers worn and soiled, light foxing to prelims, o/w V. Good”, Fiction, Ref 8126, £18.00

“Hinkson, H. A.”, GENTLEMAN JACK – An Adventurer in East Africa, SPCK, London, 2nd c. 1920, 5 x 8, 222, 2 colour illustr. By Harold Piffard, Orig. pictorial grey cloth with tatty pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 6227, £15.00

“Holman, Michael”, LAST ORDERS AT HARRODS, Abacus, London, 2007, repr., 5 x 7.75, 306, Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Ref 6840, £7.50

“Holmes, F. Ratcliffe”, THE SECRET PEOPLE, Stanley Martin & Co, London, c. 1950, 5 x 7.5, 204, B/W Frontis., “Orig. orange cloth with worn, torn dust-jacket”, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 6976, £18.00

“Huxley, Elspeth”, THE PRINCE BUYS THE MANOR – An Extravaganza, Chatto & Windus, London, 1982, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 400”, 216,  Orig. red cloth with D/W, V. Good, Not Africa, Ref 1836, £12.00

“Huxley, Elspeth”, BRAVE NEW VICTUALS – An Inquiry into Modern Food Production, Chatto & Windus, London, 1965, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 400”, 168,  Orig. green cloth with D/W, V. Good, Ref 1837, £12.00

“Huxley, Elspeth”, THE RED ROCK WILDERNESS, Chatto & Windus, London, 1957, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 500”, 256,  Orig. orange cloth with D/W, small piece missing from spine of D/W. O/W V. Good, Ref 1839, £12.00

“Huxley, Elspeth”, A MAN FROM NOWHERE, Chatto & Windus, London, 1964, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 550”, 310, Orig. green cloth with D/W, V. Good, Ref 1841, 12.00

“Huxley, Elspeth”, BACK STREET NEW WORLDS – A Look at Immigrants in Britain, Chatto & Windus/Punch, London, 1964, 1st, “5 x 8, 350”, 168, drawings in text, Orig. yellow cloth, V. Good, Ref 1842, £10.00

“Huxley, Elspeth”, LOVE AMONG THE DAUGHTERS, Chatto & Windus, London, 1968, 1st, “5.5 x 8.5, 600”, 255,  Orig. blue cloth with D/W, “Signed by the author, bookplate, V. Good”, Ref 2474, £25.00

“Jardine, Rupert”, LOST ON SAFARI, Lutterworth Press, London, 1949, “5 x 7.5, 300”, 120, Frontis., Orig. orange cloth with v. tatty pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Gateway Series – good up-to-date Sunday School Reward books; Fiction, Ref 4142, £15.00

“Jones, Denys”, LOOK NOT UPON ME, Jonathan Cape, London, 1954, 1st, “5 x 7.75, 400”, 286,  Orig. black cloth with dustwrapper, “light foxing to page edges and dustwrapper, V. Good”, Novel about a censor in Nairobi during the war and Mau Mau and his love for a black nurse, Ref 4074, £20.00

“Kaye, M. M.”, TRADE WIND, Allen Lane, London, 1981, revised ed., “6.25 x 9.5, 900”, 553, 1, Orig. green cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 4047, £10.00

“Kaye, M. M.”, LATER THAN YOU THINK, “Longmans, Green & Co”, London, 1958, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 275,  “Orig. green cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, “piece missing from top of front and spine of dust-jacket, O/W V. Good”, By the author of ‘The Far Pavilions’. Later republished as ‘Death in Kenya’, Ref 5105, £25.00

“Kaye, M.M.”, DEATH IN KENYA, Book Club Associates, London, 1983, Book Club, 5.5 x 8.75, 205,  Orig. green cloth with pict. D/W, Fine, Novel by the well known author of ‘The Far Pavilions’, Ref 1016, £7.50

“Keating, Barbara & Stephanie”, BLOOD SISTERS, Vintage Books, London, 2006, rep., 5 x 7.75, 598, 1, Orig. pictorial card, Used but V. Good, Fiction, Ref 6991, £5.00

“Keating, Barbara & Stephanie”, A DURABLE FIRE, Harvill Secker, London, 2006, 6 x 9, 561,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Fiction – sequel to Blood Sisters, Ref 6992, £12.00

“Keating, Barbara & Stephanie”, IN BORROWED LIGHT, Vintage, London, 2011, repr., 5 x 7.75, 597, 1, Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 8159, £8.00

“Kessel, Joseph”, THE LION, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959, 1st, 5.5 x 8, 208,  Orig. blue cloth with pict. D/W, Some light foxing. O/W V.Good, Novel, Ref 868, £5.00

“Kilian, Michael”, A SINFUL SAFARI, Berkley Prime Crime, New York, 2003, 4.25 x 6.75, 291 + Ads,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Crime Fiction, Ref 6824, £8.00

“Kimeria, Ciku”, OF GOATS AND POISONED ORANGES, Amazon POD, 2014, 6 x 9, 146,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Novel, Ref 8107, £7.00

“Kruger, Hardy”, THE UPSIDE-DOWN TREE, W H Allen, London, 1977, 1st English, 5.5 x 8.75, 222,  Orig. green cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction – extraordinary exploits and confessions of a European who became an African at heart – Tanganyika, Ref 5298, £12.00

“Lambkin, David”, THE HANGING TREE – A Novel, Counterpoint, Washington DC, 1996, bound galley 1st, 6 x 9, 385,  Orig. purple pictorial card, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 6649, £20.00

“Leslie-Melville, Betty”, THAT NAIROBI AFFAIR, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1975, 1st, “5.75 x 8.5, 400”, 253,  Orig. black/gr£ey cloth/paper with pictorial dust wrapper, V. Good, Novel, Ref 2641, 20.00

“Leslie-Melville, Betty and Jock”, BAGAMOYO – Here I Leave My Heart, William Morrow & Co. Inc., New York, 1983, 1st, “6.25 x 9.5, 800”, 432, 1, Orig. brown & cream cloth with worn pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Novel – family saga from 1890’s to independence in colonial East Africa, Ref 3284, £18.00

“Manners, Ian”, “WHERE DO I BELONG? – Two Worlds, One Love, No Winners”, Two Hunters Publishing, Wokingham Berks., 2002, “5 x 7.75, 300”, 248,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Ref 6937, £10.00

“Manners, Ian”, UNFINISHED BUSINESS, Two Hunters Publishing, “Wokingham, Berks”, 2007, 5 x 7.75, 279,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Novel, Ref 6948, £7.50

“Mannix, Daniel”, KIBOKO, Cassell, London, 1959, 1st UK, 5.5 x 8.25, 448, Orig. red cloth with worn pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 6276, £25.00

“Mantheakis, Alexis”, KILIMANJARO – A Colonial Novel, Author, England, 2014, 3rd ed, 6 x 9, 433,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Ref 8005, £15.00

“Marciano, Francesco”, RULES OF THE WILD, Jonathan Cape, London, 1998, 1st, 5.25 x 8.5, £306,  Orig. pictorial card, “uncorrected proof copy, V. Good”, Ref 5670, 8.00

“Marciano, Francesco”, RULES OF THE WILD, Jonathan Cape, London, 1998, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 306,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 6193, £14.00

“Maugham, Robin”, THE SECOND WINDOW, Heinemann, London, 1968, 1st, “5.75 x 8.75, 600”, 377,  Orig. brown cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Ref 4206, £20.00

“McQuillan, Karin”, DEADLY SAFARI, St. Martins Press, New York, 1990, 1st, 5.5 x 8.5, 294,  Orig. black cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, “Signed by the author, V. Good”, Ref 6159, £28.00

“Mitchell, Colin”, AFRICA VORTEX, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1980, 1st, “5.5 x 8.5, 500”, 216,  Orig. black cloth with worn dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 4920, £18.00

“Moore, F. Frankfort”, THE SLAVER OF ZANZIBAR, SPCK, London, nd, 5 x 7.5, 320, 2 drawings by J. Nash, Orig. pictorial cloth, “prize label inside f. cover, O/W V. Good bright copy”, Ref 8045, £25.00

“Moxham, Roy”, THE FREELANDER, Team, Nairobi, 1990, “5.75 x 8, 350”, 226, Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Ref 4204, £45.00

“Mundy, Talbot”, THE IVORY TRAIL, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1919, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 411, 5 by Joseph Clement Coll, Orig. dec. brown cloth, “slight stain to top corner of upper cover, V. Good”, Fiction, Ref 6789, £25.00

“Naidoo, Beverley”, BURN MY HEART, Penguin/Puffin, London, 2007, 5 x 7.75, 193,  Orig. card, Fine, Uncorrected proof copy, Ref 6678, £7.50

“Newton, John”, WHITE SUNRISE, Next Century Books, Leighton Buzzard, 2003, 1st, 6 x 9, x + 429,  Orig. pictorial card, Fine, “Fiction – Sex, murder, adultery, war, intrigue, mystery and the triumph of love and spirit over adversity and betrayal in German East Africa in the early years of the twentieth century”, Ref 5206, £15.00

“Nicole, Christopher”, THE HAPPY VALLEY, Century Hutchinson, London, 1989, 1st, “8.75 x 5.75, 600”, 383,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, Fine, Novel – family saga of farmers in Naivasha area, 3310, £25.00

“Nicole, Christopher”, THE HIGH COUNTRY, Century Hutchinson, London, 1987, 1st UK, “5 x 8, 500”, 395,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, precursor to ‘The Happy Valley’, Ref 3781, £25.00

“Olivier, Gillian”, TURN BUT A STONE, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1949, 1st, “5 x 7.5, 350”, 205,  Orig. green cloth, “spine faded, O/W V. Good”, Novel set in Kenya, Ref 7316, £25.00

“Ordway, Peter”, THE FINAL SAFARI, Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1983, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 199,  Orig. tan cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good,  6814, £18.00

“Padfield, Peter”, THE LION’S CLAW – A Novel of the Victorian Navy, Hutchinson, London, 1978, 1st, 5.25 x 8, 352, 1, Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 6272, £15.00

“Payne, Robert”, THE LION ROARS, Heinemann, London, 1949, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 258,  “Orig. red cloth with worn, torn dust-jacket”, V. Good, scarce novel, Ref 6616, £35.00

“Peverett, Allan”, DEATH STALKS IN KENYA, Arthur H. Stockwell, “Ilfracombe, Devon”, 1957, 1st, 5 x 7.25, 272,  Orig. red cloth, “small mark on upper board, author’s presentation copy, V. Good”, Ref 6738, £15.00

“Polnay, Peter de”, THE UMBRELLA THORN, Hutchinson, London, nd, “4.75 x 7.5, 300”, 240,  Orig. blue cloth with tatty pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 4132, £9.00

“Polnay, Peter de”, THE UMBRELLA THORN, Hutchinson, London, nd, “4.75 x 7.5, 300”, 240,  Orig. blue cloth with protected pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Ref 4143, £18.00

“Polnay, Peter De”, THE NIGHT OF THE HYRAX, W. H. Allen, London, 1958, 1st, 5 x 8, 223,  Orig. red cloth with worn dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel, Ref 5637, £20.00

Proffit N, EDGE OF EDEN – A Novel of Kenya, Bantam Books, New York, 1990, 1st, “6.25 x 9.5, 800”, 369,  Orig. black cloth/paper with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, “Murder, poaching and corruption in Kenya at the end of the Kenyatta era“, Ref 4708, £17.00

“Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una”, EQUATORIAL DAWN, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1936, 1st, 5.75 x 9, xii + 305, 40 B/W Photos, 1 folding, Orig. black cloth gilt, “light spotting to prelims, O/W V. Good”, “travel letters from North, East, and Central Africa – mainly Kenya Tanganyika & Uganda – the authoress accompanied her husband on a hunting trip. Rare with the dust-jacket”, Ref 8128, £20.00

“Riddell, Florence”, KISMET IN KENYA, J B Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1932, 1st US, “5.25 x 7.5, 500”, 319,  Orig. pink dec. cloth with worn dustwrapper, V. Good, Ref 4149, £25.00

“Riddell, Florence”, OUT OF THE MIST, Edward J. Clode Inc., New York, 1926, 1st US, “5 x 7.5, 450”, 319,  Orig. patterned green cloth, V. Good, Ref 4156, £20.00

“Riddell, Florence”, CAN WOMEN FORGET?, A.L. Burt Company, New York, 1929, “5 x 7.5, 500”, 312,  Orig. blue cloth with tatty dust-jacket, “slight damage to top of spine, eps darkened O/W V. Good”, Ref 4898, £15.00

“Riddell, Florence”, KENYA MIST, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1924, 1st US, 5 x 7.5, 300,  Orig. green pictorial cloth, “crease in cloth on upper cover, O/W V. Good”, Interesting novel farming in Kenya by a feminist, Ref 6317, £25.00

“Riddell, Florence”, CASTLES IN KENYA, Geoffrey Bles, London, c. 1929, 1st, “5 x 7.75, 500”, 276,  Orig. blue cloth, V Good, Ref 6318, £15.00

“Riddell, Florence”, KISMET IN KENYA, J B Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1932, 1st US, “5.25 x 7.5, 500”, 319,  “Orig. pink dec. cloth with worn, torn dust-jacket”, V. Good, Fiction – novel of Kenya in the 30s, Ref 6646, £25.00

“Riddell, Florence”, OUT OF THE MIST, Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London, 1933, 4th impr, “5 x 7.5, 450”, 303,  Orig. red cloth with worn pictorial dust-jacket, “some spotting, Ffep missing, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7956, £20.00

“Roberts, John”, PAST IMPERFECT, Lulu.com, 2007, 6 x 9, 397,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Novel, Ref 6944, £15.00

“Ruark, Robert”, UHURU, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1962, 2nd imp., 5.75 x 8.75, x + 528,  Orig. black cloth with torn worn dustwrapper, Good, Ref 1510, £12.00

“Ruark, Robert”, THE HONEY BADGER, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965, 1st, 5.75 x 8.75, 517,  Orig. olive cloth with worn pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good,  6973, £18.00

“Ruthin, Margaret”, STRANGE SAFARI, Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1955, 1st, 5.25 x 7.75, 254, Col. Frontis, “Orig. green cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, V. Good, Ref 5920, £15.00

“Scholefield, Alan”, LION IN THE EVENING, Heinemann, London, 1974, 1st, “5.75 x 8.75, 400”, x + 176,  Orig. blue cloth with pict. D/W, V. Good, novel of East Africa during World War I, Ref 1951, £15.00

“Scholefield, Alan”, THE LAST SAFARI, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987, 1st, “6 x 9.25, 700”, 309,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Novel with an East African background, Ref 2903, £20.00

“Scholefield, Alan”, GREAT ELEPHANT, Heinemann, London, 1967, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 215,  Orig. brown cloth with worn pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction – Chaka – Zulus, Ref 5282, £10.00

“Scholefield, Alan”, THE ALPHA RAID, Heinemann, London, 1976, 1st, 5.5 x 8.75, 197,  Orig. brown cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, “spine of dust-jacket faded, O/W V. Good”, Fiction – first World War and Lake Tanganyika – based on actual events, Ref 5771, £25.00

“Shreve, Anita”, A CHANGE IN ALTITUDE, “Little, Brown”, London, 2009, 1st, 6.25 x 9.5, 291,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 7243, £10.00

“Smith, Wilbur”, A FALCON FLIES, Heinemann, London, 1980, 1st, “5.25 x 8.75, 700”, 523,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, “slight darkening to page edges, O/W V. Good”, Ref 4865, £15.00

“Smith, Wilbur”, WHERE THE LION FEEDS, Heinemann, London, 1964, repr, 5.75 x 8.75, 459,  “Orig. green cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, V. Good, Ref 5127, £15.00

“Smith, Wilbur”, ELEPHANT SONG, Macmillan, London, 1991, 1st, 6.25 x 9.5, 451,  Orig. blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 5133, £15.00

“Smith, Wilbur”, THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS, Heinemann, London, 1984, 1st, 6.25 x 9.25, 367,  Orig. maroon cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 5623, £20.00

“Smith, Wilbur”, THE ANGELS WEEP, Heinemann, London, 1982, 1st, 5.25 x 8.75, 506,  Orig. tan cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 5624, £20.00

“Smith, Wilbur”, MEN OF MEN, Heinemann, London, 1981, 1st, 5.25 x 8.75, 506,  Orig. pink cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 5628, 20.00

“Stapylton, Mark”, DARK HIGHLANDS, P. R. Macmillan, London, 1961, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 310,  “Orig. green cloth with worn, torn dust-jacket”, spotting to eps. O/W V. Good, Fiction, Ref 5948, £15.00

“Stevenson, William”, THE GHOSTS OF AFRICA, W.H. Allen, London, 1981, 1st UK, “6 x 9.25, 800”, 400, 2, Orig. red cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Novel – German East Africa at the outbreak of the First World War, Ref 3356, £18.00

“Stoneham, C.T.”, THE DONGOI KILLER, Museum Press, London, 1952, 1st, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 223, Col. Frontis, Orig. red cloth, V. Good, “Novel – East Africa, scarce”, Ref 4103, £20.00

“Stoneham, C.T.”, KENYA MYSTERY, Museum Press Ltd, London, 1954, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 222,  Orig. black cloth, “foxing to first and last few pages, front free endpaper removed, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7018, £12.00

“Strang, Herbert”, SETTLERS AND SCOUTS, Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910, 1st, “5.5 x 7.75, 900”, 374 + Ads, 6 colour by T.C. Dugdale, 2, Orig. brown pictorial cloth, “some foxing throughout, O/W V. Good”, Novel set in Kenya portraying the struggles encountered by the early settlers in the ‘White Highlands’, Ref 3098, £40.00

“Strang, Herbert”, TOM WILLOUGHBY’S SCOUTS, Humphrey Milford, London, 1919, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 297, 4 colour, Orig. pictorial cloth, “covers worn and bumped, O/W V. Good”, Ref 5202, £20.00

“Strang, Herbert”, TOM BURNABY – A Story of the Great Congo Forest, Blackie and Son, London, nd, 5.25 x 7.5, 368 + 16 Ads, 6 B/W Plates, 3, Orig. red pictorial cloth, “lower cover stained, some spotting, Good”, Ref 5904, £15.00

“Strang, Herbert”, TOM WILLOUGHBY’S SCOUTS, Humphrey Milford, London, 1919, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 297, 4 colour, Orig. green pictorial cloth, “covers worn and bumped, upper hinge starting, Good”, Fictional adventure story – First World War in East Africa, Ref 6101, £20.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, KENYA CALLING, Stanley Paul, London, 1928, 4th, “5 x 7.5, 500”, 256 + Ads,  “Orig. blue cloth with worn, torn pictorial dustwrapper”, V. Good, Novel set in Kenya by the prolific author of

‘Kenya To-Day’, Ref 3219, £45.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, A WIFE IN KENYA – A Story of East Africa, Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1926, 3rd, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 304 + 32 ads.,  Orig. dark grey cloth, “signs of label removed from lower cover, slight waterstain to bottom of upper cover, O/W V. Good”, Ref 4212, £12.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, KENYA DAWN, Stanley Paul, London, 2nd, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 352,  Orig. green cloth with tatty pictorial dust-jacket, “Some foxing throughout, O/W Good”, Ref 4969, £30.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, SANCTUARY, Hutchinson, London, c. 1930, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 159,  Orig. blue cloth with tatty dust-jacket, V. Good, Ref 6094, £45.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, JUDY – A Story of Life and Love in Kenya, Hutchinson, London, c. 1942, 1st, 5 x 7.5, 176,  “Orig. orange cloth with worn, torn pictorial dust-jacket”, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 7839, £28.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, KENYA NOON, Wright & Brown, London, nd, 3rd, 5 x 7.5, 287,  Orig. red cloth, “covers and spine slightly grubby, light foxing throughout, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7872, £35.00

“Strange, Nora K.”, COURTSHIP IN KENYA, Stanley Paul & Co., London, nd., 1st, 5 x 7.5, 287 + Ads,  Orig. raspberry cloth, “v. slight fading to spine, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7873, £35.00

“Taaffe, Michael”, THE DARK GLASS, Putnam, London, 1963, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 500”, 318,  Orig. brown cloth with worn dustwrapper, “darkening to eps, O/W V. Good”, Novel set in Tanganyika – the author spent nearly 30 years in the Administration in East Africa, Ref 2988, £10.00

“Taaffe, Michael”, THE DARK GLASS, Putnam, London, 1963, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 500”, 318,  Orig. brown cloth with worn dustwrapper, “darkening to eps, O/W V. Good”, Novel set in Tanganyika – the author spent nearly 30 years in the Administration in East Africa, Ref 4100, £20.00

“Taaffe, Michael”, THE DARK GLASS, Putnam, London, 1963, 1st, “5.25 x 8, 500”, 318,  Orig. brown cloth with worn dustwrapper, “darkening to eps, spine of dust-jacket faded, O/W V. Good”, Novel set in Tanganyika – the author spent nearly 30 years in the Administration in East Africa, Ref 7041, £10.00

“Thomas, Maria”, COME TO AFRICA AND SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE – and other stories, Soho Press Inc, New York, 1987, 1st, “5.75 x 8.5, 500”, 237,  Orig. blue cloth/paper with pictorial dustwrapper, Fine, Fiction – Thirteen stories of American expatriates in Africa, Ref 4108, £18.00

“Thomas, Maria”, ANTONIA SAW THE ORYX FIRST, Soho Press, New York, 1987, 1st, “6.25 x 9.5, 700”, 296,  Orig. blue cloth/paper with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, “””A complex, deeply written and finely-wrought double portrait of two women, one black, one white, picking their way through the debris of a shattered colonialism, discovering unexpected treasures buried in the rubble”” – Dust-jacket“, Ref 4112, £15.00

“Thornhill, Christopher J.”, ROMANCE OF THE RIFT, Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1930s, 5 x 7.5, 319,  Orig. orange cloth, “spine slightly faded, eps and half title darkened, O/W V. Good”, Ref 7020, £30.00

“Tripp, Miles”, THE SKIN DEALER, Macmillan & Co, London, 1964, 1st, “5 x 7.75, 500”, 247,  Orig. red cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, V. Good, Ref 3909, £17.50

“Trzebinski, Bruce”, THE ELEPHANT DROPPING, Author, London, 2013, 1st, 5 x 8, v + 492,  Orig. pictorial card, New, Fiction – Kenya based, Ref 7962, £12.00

“Trzebinski, Bruce”, THE ELEPHANT DROPPING, Author, “Amazon, UK”, 2013, 1st, 5 x 8, 492,  Orig. pictorial card, V. Good, Novel set in present day Kenya, Ref 8142, £15.00

“Unwin, David”, THE GOVERNOR’S WIFE, Michael Joseph, London, 1954, 1st, 5.25 x 8, 223,  Orig. black cloth with worn dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 5758, £12.00

“Vassanji, M. G.”, THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL, Canongate Books, London, 2004, 1st UK, 6.25 x 9.5, 439,  Orig. orange cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, Fine, “Fiction – “”Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters, both real and imagined, in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence”” – Dust-jacket”, Ref 5333, £15.00

“Webster, Capt. F. A. M.”, HOLDING THEIR OWN, Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1932, 1st, “5.25 x 7.75, 550”, 288, Colour Frontis. + 1 B/W, Orig. red cloth, “covers and spine somewhat worn and bubbled, Good”, Ref 4794, £25.00

“Westerman, Percy F.”, WILMSHURST OF THE FRONTIER FORCE, S.W. Partridge, London, c. 1930, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 252,  Orig. blue pictorial cloth, “some v. light spotting, Good ++”, “Novel – “”A story of the conquest of German East Africa”””, Ref 4130, £18.00

“Westerman, Percy F.”, SINCLAIR’S LUCK – A Story of Adventure in East Africa, Partridge, London, nd c 1938, 3rd imp, “5 x 7.5, 600”, 256, Frontis., Orig. red decorated cloth, V. Good, Ref 4927, £20.00

“Westerman, Percy F.”, WILMSHURST OF THE FRONTIER FORCE, S.W. Partridge, London, c. 1930, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 252,  Orig. brown pictorial cloth, “darkening to eps, 2 pages torn out! Replaced in facsimile, covers worn and bumped, O?W V. Good”, Ref 5702, £15.00

“Westerman, Percy F.”, WILMSHURST OF THE FRONTIER FORCE, S.W. Partridge, London, c. 1930, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 252,  Orig. red pictorial cloth, V. Good, Fiction – a story of the conquest of German East Africa, Ref £6244, 20.00

“Westerman, Percy F.”, WILMSHURST OF THE FRONTIER FORCE, S.W. Partridge, London, c. 1930, “5 x 7.5, 400”, 252, Frontis., Orig. red pictorial cloth with tatty pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Fiction, Ref 7313, £25.00

“Wood, Barbara”, GREEN CITY IN THE SUN, Random House, New York, 1988, 1st, 6.5 x 9.5, 699,  Orig. green/brown paper/cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, V. Good, Novel, Ref 5241, £15.00