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(Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970). Text facsimile of the 1894 edition by The Religious Tract Society. 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; map; plates, illustration in text. Trace of foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "The Rev. D. Carnegie, the author of this book, went out to… Read more

(London: Philip Allan, 1929). 8vo; original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xi + (i) + 211; colour frontis. Light wear to boards; rather foxed throughout. Good condition. (Hosken, p. 101) A very readable account of the life of Mzilikazi's son Lobengula, shrewd king of the warlike Matabele (Ndebele), whose people were embroiled in conflict with… Read more

(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

(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

(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

(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

(Salisbury, Galaxie Press, 1975). Illustrations by Len Curling and Joan van der Merwe. 280 x 214 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 184 (including index); numerous illustrations, colour plates, map. Slightly rubbed, with trace of foxing to edges. Good condition. "GARDENING IN RHODESIA is the most comprehensive gardening book published for Rhodesian conditions. Volume One contains detailed, simple-to-follow descriptions of more than… Read more