Elements of Shona (Zezuru Dialect) by Fortune, G

(Cape Town: Longmans Southern Africa, 1962). 8vo; original red boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. xvii + (i) + 222. Boards partially sunned, and slightly soiled; endpapers and edges foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good. (Murphy & Goff, 1030 [1959 edition]) "This book is an attempt to provide people who know no Shona with a guide to a reasonable, if still elementary, grasp of this language. It consists of forty-two graded lessons. Each lesson consists of a grammatical section, a short vocabulary, a text and an exercise. The lessons have been planned to lead one to the other in a continuous movement, while each has been made as much of a unity as possible, the grammatical section being illustrated by sentences from the text and the exercise enabling the new material to be digested and used at once." .