1621. Hill, M.F.

The Dual Policy in Kenya. Being a collection of articles, published in the Kenya Weekly News, between July, 1943, and March, 1944, on the past, the present, and the future of Kenya Colony.

Nakuru, The Kenya Weekly News, no year (c.1944). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 276 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth]. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Corners bumped. Boards show smudges and fading. Tears to gutter between pastedowns and endpapers. Binding somewhat shaky but book block intact. Internally clean and bright with sharp corners.

1622. Wynne, May / Cecily M. Rutley / Nancy Howard / Pauline Dunstan / Ethel Talbot / Jessie Pope / Agnes Grozier Herbertson etc. etc.

The Story Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. With Seven Colour Plates and Hundreds of Two-Colour and Other Pictures [by Margaret Tarrant, Mary Brooks, Anne Anderson, May Smith and others].

London / Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., No year [c.1930]. 18.5 cm x 25.5 cm. 224 pages. Original Illustrated Hardcover with coloured illustrations. The often damaged and worn book was recently restored and professionally rebound and is now a tight and firm version for generations to come. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of pre-owner on endpaper in pen and pencil. A few marks on endpaper and content page. Otherwise in very good condition. [The Wonder Book Series].

1623. Coudenhove, Hans.

My African Neighbors – Man, Bird, and Beast in Nyasaland. Illustrated.

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. 15 cm x 22.7 cm. Frontispiece, XIV, 245 pages. 12 illustrations, including the frontispiece, on 8 plates. Hardcover/ Publisher’s original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cracks to valley between endpaper and half-title. Binding still good and firm. Original, armorial bookplate of Somerset Saunderson(depicting the coat-of-arms with the motto: “Je suis veillant”) on front paste-down. Annotation on pastedown, half-title, table of contents and table of illustrations. Several annotations on rear paste-down.

1624. [Pavlova, Anna] Saburova, Irina.

Immortal Swan: Dedicated to Anna Pavlova to the 25th Anniversary of Her Death in 1931-1956 (This Russian Edition is the only edition ever printed: Bessmertnyj lebed’: Posvjashhaetsja Anne Pavlovoj k 25-letiju so dnja ee smerti.)

New York, Dnipro, 1956. Oblong Quarto. 88 pages. With 128 photographic illustrations on coated paper. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely rare publication !!!

1625. Sheehan, [Canon] Rev. P.A.

Collection of three publications by Canon Sheehan: 1. “Miriam Lucas” (New Impression – 2nd edition from 1924) / 2.″The Queen’s Fillet” (New Impression – 2nd edition from 1919) / 3. “Luke Delmege” (New Impression – 2nd edition from 1924).

26th edition. New York / Toronto / Bombay / Calcutta / Glasgow, Longmans, Green and Co., 1919-1924. Octavo. 470, 376, 580 pages. Original Publisher’s Hardcover. All three Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

1626. Tennent, Sir J. Emerson.

The Story of the Guns.

First Edition. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. 8°. XXII, 364 pages with 33 illustrations. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Good + condition with stronger signs of external wear (some staining). The binding is still firm and strong but the first five and the last 4 pages show some waterstaining. This copy would have not made it into our catalogue if Ray Riling would not recommend it and it would not be extremely scarce and rare due to the inscription of the author to Sir Henry Josias Stracey, 5th Baronet and British 19th century Conservative Politician (portrayed in Vanity Fair magazine in 1875).

1627. Vakil, C.N. / Cirvante, V.R. / Brahmananda, P.R. / Desai, T.M.

Economic Consequences of Divided India. A study of the Economy of India and Pakistan.

Bombay, Vora & Co. Publishers, 1950. Gr.-8°. XV, 555 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent collector’s condition with the rare dustjacket ! Some minor signs of foxing. Dustjacket in excellent condition. Early review slip from publishers attached to the titlepage. A magnificent copy of this rare book !

1628. Hennell, T.

Change in the Farm. With illustrations by the Author.

Second Edition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1936. 15 cm x 23 cm. X, 201 pages. 49 black and white drawings throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear mostly to dustjacket. Foxing to edges and endpapers only. Previous owner’s name in ink pen to endpaper.

1629. Harraden, Beatrice.

Ships that Pass in the Night.

Copyright Edition. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894. 11 cm x 16 cm. 263 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition. vol. 2968].

1630. Deluxe Illustrated Children’s Book – Kipling, Rudyard.

All the Puck Stories. With Illustrations by H.R.Millar and Charles E.Brock.

First Deluxe Edition (Published simultaneously with the trade edition). London, MacMillan and Co., 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration, X, 670, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original, rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only.