The Bechuanaland Protectorate by Sillery, A

(Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1952). 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pp. xii + 236, incl. index; several folding genealogical tables; two maps, incl. folding. Torn remnant of dustwrapper loosely inserted; light wear to extremities of spine; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; tape stains to front free endpaper; sporadic foxing. Good. "There is much need for an authoritative account of the Bechuanaland Protectorate--its history and up-to-date circumstances--contained in one volume. Hitherto, available information has been scattered about in many different books, which have been difficult to collect together at one time. In this volume, the author--who was Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1946 to 1950 and is, therefore, able to speak with authority--presents a broad outline of the territory and its history." .