WEST AFRICAN STUDIES by Mary H. Kingsley - 1899

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is cracked at the front hinge but attached. Binding has some wear and fading. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. Photographs throughout. A foldout map entitled Tropical West Africa is attached to the back of the volume. "In the'Studies' ...is... some of the material collected in her first journey...and especially the striking chapters on Colonial administration, was the fruit of later study and reflection. For her mind was always at work, her sympathies always active, on the many problems which West Africa presented to her, and especially on the relations between the native races and the Europeans who, for purposes of trade or otherwise, has set foor in the country." p. xx11.

Frank Cass & Co. Ltd ., 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1964. Third Edition. 507 pages. Black dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Some tanning to spine. Light rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Frank Cass & Co., 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Third Edition, 1964. Price clipped. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. xxxii 507pp 4pp ads. Fold-out color map of West Africa, with a closed tear to one of the creases. Complete with 22 plates of photographs, some with multiple photographs. Stated second edition, with additional chapters. Tape repaired tear to page 227. Spine heavily faded. Gutters cracked, textblock still tight.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.. Second edition, "with additional chapters". 8vo. xxxii, 507, (5) pp. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, contents partially unopened. Frontispiece, 26 plates (some two to a page) and a folding colour map. Covers with some wear and darkening, else very good.

London: Macmillan,, 1901. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. xxxii, 507pp. Original cloth with some light wear, otherwise near very good indeed and complete. No jacket. 2nd edition with additional chapters.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition, with additional chapters. xxxii, 507 pp + 4 pp ads. Index, frontis portrait, 27 plates from photographs, folding map of Tropical West Africa. Foxing to front matter, small stain on spine, else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was an English ethnographer, writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of both African cultures and British colonialism in Africa. A follow-up to her Travels in West Africa (1897), this ambitious book outlined a new plan for the administration of the West African colonies that would give control to European trading interests (rather than bureaucrats) while incorporating African opinion and leaving native cultural, legal, and social organizations intact (DNB). The book also includes much new detail from her extensive studies of tribal customs (fetishism, witchcraft, medicine, religious practice) and natural history.

Macmillan, London/ 1901. Second Edition, with Additional Chapters.. Hardback.. Black and White illustrations and map. Very Good- (some wear to exterior), without dust jacket.

London:Macmillan and Co. Limited., 1901. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/09/0_img_0581.jpg. London:Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1901. 2nd edition, with additional chapters. xxxii+507pp+4pp ads. With Illustrations and Map.  Hardcover.  Red boards lightly rubbed and soiled with light shelfwear to edges. Internally, end-pages slightly soiled but otherwise pages clean with no previous owners marks or signatures. Many pages still uncut, and some are roughly cut. The binding is tight and hinges intact but cracked at page 256/7.