1. Brown, Hilton.

Parry’s of Madras. A Story of British Enterprise in India.

First Edition. Madras, Parry & Co. Ltd., 1954. 22cm x 14cm. xi, 347 (2) pages. With illustrations. Map on endpapers and pastedown of Parry India. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Parry in 1806. Original Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Miller, Charles.

The Lunatic Express – An Entertainment in Imperialism.

Nairobi, Westland Sundries, 1987. 10.4 cm x 17.5 cm. VI, 629 pages. 45 illustrations in the photo insert. Cross section of railway also within text. Softcover [publisher’s original] with illustrated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean with hint of tanning to edges. Binding good and firm and square.

3. [Stanley, Henry Morton] McLynn, Frank.

Stanley: Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 499 pages. Softcover [publisher’s original] with illustrated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some tanning to page edges of an otherwise bright and clean interior. Binding good and firm and square.

4. [Weston, Frank] Smith, H. Maynard.

Frank Bishop of Zanzibar – Life of Frank Weston, D.D., 1871-1924. With Portraits.

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1926. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 326 pages. 9 black-and-white photographs. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners. Preowner’s name on front endpaper. Discreet bookseller’s label on front pastedown.

5. Truepeney, Charlotte.

Our African Farm.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1965. 14 cm x 22 cm. 190 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original rusty orange cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean, crisp with sharp corners.

6. Hardy, Ronald.

The Iron Snake.

London, Collins, 1965. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 318 pages. 11 illustrations on 8 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original dark green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Mapped endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight and square. Preowner’s name on title-page.

7. Hattersley, Chas. W. / Duta, Henry Wright.

Luganda – Phrases and Idioms. For New Arrivals and Travellers in Uganda.

Second Edition. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1921. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm. 128 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

8. Johnson, William Percival.

My African Reminiscences, 1875-1895.

Westminster, Universities Mission to Central Africa, no year (1924). 14 cm x 21 xm. Frontispiece, 236 pages. 8 illustrations, including frontispiece. Fold-out map at rear of Lake Nyasa. Private Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on black spinelabel. Sprinkled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Fold-out map is creased. Interior is tight, bright and clean with new endpapers.

9. Le Breton, F.H.

Up-Country Swahili Exercises – For the Soldier, Settler, Miner, Mercahnt, and Their Wives. And for All Who Deak With UP-Country Natives Without Interpreters.

Thirteenth Edition. Richmond, R.W. Simpson and Co., (1956). 12 cm x 17.5 cm. 96 pages. Softcover/ publisher’s original. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Upper corner of front board bumped. Name of preowner on pastedown.

10. Rayne, H.

Sun, Sand and Somals, Leaves from the Note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland. With 12 Plates From Photographs.

London, H.F.& G. Witherby, 1921. 15 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, 223 pages. Four of the twelve illustrations (including frontispiece) are missing. Recent Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Binding in excellent condition. Interior book-block in good+ condition with signs of staining.