BASUTOLAND

Austin Coates

Verlag: Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO), London, 1966

Beschreibung

First impression of the true first edition. Part of The Corona Library Series. Foreword to the Corona Library series of book titles by the t Hon. Sir Winston S. Churchill K.G., O.M., C.H., M.P. to the fore written at Chartwell, September 1956, with his facsimile signature. Jacket, endpapers and drawings by Oliver Caldecott. ***Profusely iIllustrated with seventeen pages of black and white photographic plates, as well as drawings in the text, and coloured endpapers. Folding map at end of volume by Directorate of Overseas Surveys. ***Fine in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Boards bright. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 20s net. Edges and corners of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and creased. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***224 mm x 148 mm. xiii prelims-pages plus 135 pages including index to rear. ***'The roof of Southern Africa - a small land of snow-capped mountains, flat-topped hills, treeless plains, and immensities of distance - Basutoland is one of the few countries in the world to be enveloped by another. Austin Coates recounts how it came into existence; how Moshesh, one of the greatest Africans of the nineteenth century, founded the Basotho nation, and how the people fared during times when migrating populations fought each other for existence and when Europeans first arrived. ***He sees the Basotho as a race for whom freedom and self-reliance are cardinal to self-existence - a musical people of intelligence and charm whose sense of colour and natural elegance are outstanding. He describes their lives, the apparent social loneliness of the educated, and the ancient traditions of the countryside. He finds Basutoland a land of insecurities: partly because it is enclosed by South Africa, and partly because of its basic agricultural and mineral poverty. Outlining the two main developments in the past century, the shift from a pagan to a Christian society, and the political transformation of a tribe into a modern state---.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper, complete with tipped-in map to rear, hard to find in such nice, bright collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4881

Bibliografische Details

Titel: BASUTOLAND

Verlag: Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO), London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1966

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Oliver Caldecott

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: First Edition