1. Bell, W.D.M.

Karamojo Safari.

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. XI, 298 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original salmon cloth] with lettering on spine / without the dustjacket. Design on front board. Mapped endpapers showing ‘Route of Author’s Safari Through Karamojo.’ Very good- condition. Signs of external wear. Boards and spine show significant fading and discoloration from wear. Binding is still firm and strong. Interior is bright and clean.

2. Foran, W. Robert.

A Cuckoo in Kenya – The Reminiscences of a [Irish] Pioneer Police Officer in British East Africa. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author and Others.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1936). 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Frontispiece, 360 pages. 119 monochrome photographs on 47 plates, including frontispiece. Maps of Kenya on pastedowns and endpapers. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Slightly bumped and rubbed. Very minor staining to front board. Binding still firm and strong. Minor foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean. Very Rare, rather scarce publication !

3. [Hannington, James] Dawson, E.C.

James Hannington – First Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa. A History of his Life and Work, 1847-1885.

London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1899. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 392 pages. Fold-out map at rear of “Eastern Central Africa”. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering and blind tooling on spine and front board. Gilt design on front board. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tissue guard shows foxing. Interior is bright and clean.

4. Hattersley, C.W.

The Baganda at Home. With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda.

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1908. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 227 pages. 80 monochrome illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and designs on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Binding firm and strong. Foxing to edges and interior. Interior unmarked.

5. 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.

6. Mungeam, G.H.

British Rule in Kenya, 1895-1912. The Establishment of Administration in the East Africa Protectorate.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1966. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 329 pages. 5 plates, including frontispiece. 3 maps within. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Fine condition. Interior like new. (Oxford studies in African affairs).

7. Pearce, F.B.

Zanzibar – The Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa. With Illustrations and Maps.

First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. 17.5 cm x 25.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 421 pages. 50 illustrations. Two maps near front and also including the often missing large fold-out map of Zanzibar and Pemba Islands at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Embossment to front board. A little rough but still in Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to corners of boards. Spine cloth frayed at head and tail. Binding is still firm and strong. Some spotting throughout to an otherwise clean interior. With tissue guard in good condition. New endpapers !

8. Peters, Carl.

Peters, Die Deutsche Emin Pascha-Expedition. Mit 32 Vollbildern und 66 Textabbildungen von Rudolf Hellgrewe in Berlin, dem Portrait des Verfassers nach Franz von Lenbach und einer Karte in Farbendruck.

Zweites Tausend. München und Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, 1891. 16 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 560 pages. Large fold-out map within sleeve of rear pastedown showing the “Emin Pascha Expedition.” / Mit der grossformatigen Faltkarte in Kartentasche (im hinteren Einbanddeckel). Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine. Large pictorial on front board. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Maroon coloured text-block edges. / Originaler, illustrierter Verlagsleinenband mit sehr dekorativer Einbanddeckel- und Einband-Ruecken-Illustration. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex libris of Mark Walder on front pastedown. University stamp on p.IV. Discreet bookseller’s label of ‘R. Oldenbourg, München’, at bottom corner of rear pastedown. Some browning to reverse of fold-out map. Interior is bright and clean with sharp corners. / Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Ganz kleiner Einriss am Vorsatzpapier.

9. Russell, Lilian.[Mrs.Charles E.B.]

General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade – With Journals, Dispatches, Etc. Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Charles E.B. Russell.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1935. 14 cm x 22 cm. 404 pages including a thorough Index. Fold-out map at rear showing “General Rigby’s Career in H.M Service”. With a specimen of Rigby’s Arabic Writings. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth without the dustjacket] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind embossment to front board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Old price and former owner’s name on endpaper. Besides this an extremely firm and tight copy and the Interior very bright and clean.

10. [Wakefield, Thomas] Wakefield, E.S.

Thomas Wakefield – Missionary and Geographical Pioneer in East Equatorial Africa. [With an Appendix listing Plans of East Tropical Africa and Mombasa, forwarded by Rev. Thomas Wakefield to Kew Gardens in 1880 / 1884 and classified by Professor Oliver]. With Portrait and Eight Illustrations.

Second Edition. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1904. 13 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 285 pages. 9 illustrations on 9 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. Interior bright, tight and clean with sharp corners. Front endpaper carries message reading “Presented to Louise Stephens by the United Methodist Missionary Society 1916”.