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Windfall for African Studies: Some Forthcoming Reprints
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2014
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The rising demand for out-of-print Africana, and indeed all rare and scholarly books, is stimulating unprecedented interest and reprinting activity among publishers. With programs and courses springing up all over the United States, Africa, and other parts of the world, librarians and scholars have found themselves in fierce competition for scarce materials on African subjects. Simultaneously, booksellers, at pains to meet this tremendous increase in demand, have found the supply of Africana dwindling and near depletion. However, because of the proliferation of publishing houses specializing in scholarly reprints, the solution to this problem seems to be close at hand.
If one may judge by the number of works which have already appeared and by those known to be in the planning stages, it would not seem very long before nearly all the most important works are republished. The following does not purport to be an exhaustive listing, but will serve to indicate the very large number of reprints recently published or forthcoming.
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1 This is the Harper edition originally published in the United States. It differs from the five-volume London edition insofar as it lacks the route maps of the latter and was reproduced with black and white rather than color plates. This new edition will include the maps and will also retain the black and white plates of the Harper edition.
2 This edition will consist of binding together in two or three useful volumes the gazetteers done for each province of Northern Nigeria.
3 Expected in the fall of 1965.
4 The titles under this section are part of an African Language Studies Series.
5 Part II, chapter I, deals with the Settlers' Frontier, Southern Africa, and chapter II with the Evolution of the Traders' Frontier, West Africa.
6 The author's kindest thanks are due Mr. Robin Hallett, General Editor of the series, for forwarding this information.
7 The Editors will be announced at a later date.
8 This will be a complete edition with notes. The original translation from the German to French was abridged.
9 The reprint of this and the following constitutes an important reappearance of traditional literature bearing on the history of the western Sudan. In both reissue's the Arabic text has been included beside the French translation. Reprinted under the auspices of UNESCO upon the recommendation of the Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines.
10 The publishers welcome suggestions for reprints by accredited scholars.
11 This and the following are part of Series I of the Hakluyt Society.
12 This work and the rest that follow under this section are reprints from the excellent Imperial Studies Series.
13 Vols. I-XXII consist of 92 issues, 69 of which are available in reprint (Vol. XIV has 8 issues); limited supplies of the remaining 23 original issues are available. For Vols. XXIII-XXXII limited supplies of most original issues are still available. Out-of-print issues are scheduled for reprinting in the near future.
14 Limited supplies of all other issues in Vols. I-IV, X, XII, and XIII are currently available in the original. Further issues will be reprinted as necessary when the stocks of originals are exhausted.
15 Formerly Journal of the African Society and Journal of the Royal African Society.
16 Devoted to the scientific study of Bantu, Hottentot, and Bushmen, Bantu Studies was later continued under the name of African Studies.
17 Papers published have covered all aspects of the history and civilization of the western (Maghrebian) Moslem world.