Rhodesia from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1977) 0869201530. Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series, Volume 15. Text facsimile of the Heinemann edition of 1897, with a new foreword and index. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine, with silver gilt ox-waggon device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xiv) + xv + (iii) + 218 + (ix), incl.… Read more

(Bulawayo: The Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, 1953). 8vo; original grey cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 128; plates; folding map. Sporadic foxing. Good condition. The book is divided into five parts: Distinctive and beautiful scenery, Rock paintings and engravings, Ruins, The Matabele invasion and occupation, The European occupation.… Read more

(London: Picador, 2010) 9780330513951. 232 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (xiv) + 353 + (i); map. A little foxing; small crease to bottom fore-corner of lower cover. Very good condition. "In mid-2008, after nearly three decades of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe, the eighty-four-year-old ruler, met his politburo. He had just lost an election.… Read more

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1973) 0949937017. Edited and introduced by A.P. Cartwright. 8vo; original green boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 136. Dustwrapper sunned, and a little edgeworn, with some archival tape repairs to reverse of edges; light foxing to endpapers and edges. Very good condition. Originally published in 1892, the book was compiled from Percy Fitzpatrick's despatches… Read more

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1975) 0869201190. Ex-library copy. Rhodesiana Reprint Library - Silver Series, Volume One. Facsimile reproduction of the 1894 edition, with new Foreword and illustrations. 8vo; pictorial boards after the Cassell edition; pictorial dustwrapper, in vinyl protector; pp. (xvi) 160 + original publisher's catalogue; folding map; plates; adverts., as in original edition. Dustwrapper adhering… Read more

(Salisbury: The Rhodesiana Society, 1971). 240 x 152 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 114; black-and-white photographs. Handstamp on first leaf. Wrappers a little rubbed; trace of sunning to spine. Very good condition. Contents: Mazoe and the Mashona Rebellion, 1896-97, by E.E. Burke; H.H.A. de Laessoe: Pioneer, Administrator and Explorer in Rhodesia from 1896 to 1914,… Read more

(Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1980) 0869202227. Signed by the author on the title page, with his presentation inscription to the front free endpaper. 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xv + (i) + 140, incl. index; colour frontis. portrait; plates. Dustwrapper partially very lightly tanned, with some foxing to reverse side; a… Read more

(Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1896). 8vo; original pale grey cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and will black tsessebe head to upper board; pp. vii + (i) + 327; large, folding colour map. Bottom fore-corners of boards turned; backstrip a little darkened, and gilt title dull, with light wear at head and tail; foxing to edges, endpapers and… Read more

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1973) 0949937017. Edited and introduced by A.P. Cartwright. 8vo; original green boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 136. Dustwrapper partially sunned, with some wear to top edge of lower panel; earlier owner's bookplate to front pastedown; front free endpaper slightly foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. Originally published in 1892, the book… Read more

(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1966). 4to; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (viii) + 239, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, etchings, facsimiles, etc. Very good dustwrapper with trace of foxing to reverse side; earlier owner's name on front pastedown and gift inscription to front free endpaper verso; old tape marks… Read more

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1975) 0869200143. Text facsimile of the Macmillan edition of 1893. Volume Eight in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library Gold Series. 8vo; original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + xii + 340 + 8; plates, incl. map. Very good dustwrapper has two short closed tears to top edge… Read more

(London: Faber and Faber, 2004) 0571210163. 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 310; portrait; map. Slight curl to top edge of dustwrapper; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Near fine condition. "When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur… Read more

(Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1947). 4to; original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 192; line drawings; map. Dustwrapper tanned, foxed and slightly creased; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; edges foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere; slight bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board. Very good condition. Lovely illustrations. (Hosken,… Read more

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, no date). 8vo; original brown rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 109; plates; maps. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn, with old tape repairs to reverse; foxing to endpapers, edges and dustwrapper, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good. "The book is the fruit of 10 years residence by the author in Rhodesia… Read more

(London: London Missionary Society, 1910). Small 4to; original red cloth with pictorial onlay to upper cover; endpaper map; pp. 224; photographs in text. Publisher's presentation note to verso of front free endpaper; cloth somewhat worn, rubbed and soiled; backstrip and adjacent portion of boards very sunned; binding slack; trace of damp-staining to bottom edge of pastedowns; some foxing and… Read more

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1974). 8vo; original salmon-coloured boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 230 + (x), incl. index; plates. Spine panel sunned; front free endpaper removed; tape marks and some foxing to endpapers. Absent front free endpaper notwithstanding, good to very good condition. "Dan Judson, whose adventurous youth… Read more

(Salisbury: The Government Printer, 1968). 240 x 150 mm; original card wrappers; pp. viii + 180; colour folding map at rear. Wrappers somewhat creased on the edges and a little stained; slightest scattered foxing. Report of a commission appointed in 1967, two years after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, to "examine the provisions of the Constitution of Rhodesia,… Read more

(Harare: Quest Publishing, 1987) 0908306040. 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; endpaper maps; pp. xv + (i) + 431, incl. index; liberally illustrated with line drawings and full-colour plates. Dustwrapper rubbed, creased and torn, with archival tape repair to reverse side of upper panel; scuff to upper cover; some tape marks to pastedowns; trace of… Read more

(London: The Imperial Tobacco Company Limited, no date c. 1957). 8vo; original blue boards; dustwrapper; pp. 92; photographs; colour fold-out map. Boards a bit rubbed, dustwrapper slightly edgeworn. Very good condition. Small handstamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. History of the Imperial Tobacco Company in Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia. .

(Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1970). Illustrated by Penny Miller. Large 8vo; pictorial boards; pp. 293; plates; line drawings. Cover rubbed, irregularly sunned and a little fishmothed; gift inscription to front free endpaper; edges browned and spotted; foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, occasionally elsewhere. Good. A miscellany of stories from the 80-year history of the… Read more