African Songs. Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1963. Seven Seas Books, 7.  149 pages. Illustrated softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.75", displays light shelfwear, with original glassine cover still intact. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. Cover and book design are by American cartoonist and civil rights advocate Oliver Harrington (1912-1995).  "Critics of three continents have praised the work of this new and talented South African writer...The New York Herald Tribune said, "Brings close the bite of discrimination." London's Times Literary Supplement said, "...more powerful than any white writing would be." Africa's New Age said, "Written with economy ,tension and impressive level of understanding." In this book are stories previously published in five languages, and stories published for the first time in the first Richard Rive collection to appear in book form."