An African Sketchbook. Drawings & Watercolours of Kenya by Ray Nestor with extracts from his memoirs by Nestor, Ray

(Tolworth: Fountain Press, 1988) 0863431852. 4to; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 111; several illustrations, in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine panel; some foxing to endpapers and outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "Ray Nestor travelled to Kenya to work as a surveyor two years before the First World War began. He returned to Kenya after enlisting and being seriously injured in the first Battle of the Somme. Ray Nestor became a farmer, his first love however was sketching and painting the people and landscape of Kenya. He also executed many fine portrait drawings of his friends including Berkeley Cole and Denys Finch-Hatton whose life and love for Karen Blixen inspired the film Out of Africa. An African Sketchbook brings together a selection of superb drawings from his sketchbooks, plus many of his evocative watercolours. The illustrations are complemented by Ray Nestor's memoirs which give a fascinating insight into life in colonial East Africa." .