Boggie, Jeannie M.

First Steps in Civilising Rhodesia Being a True Account . . .

Kingstons Ltd. Bulawayo 1966 4th edition. Gilt on blue skivertex boards. 364pp illustrated 4to. No inscription, 4 square corners. top edge dusty else VG condition in Good dustwrapper (spine well tanned, spine ends chipped but no major loss or tears). A very nice copy beneath the dustwrapper. ... Of The Experiences Of The Earliest White Settlers - Men, Women, And Children - In Southern And Northern Rhodesia.

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Book number: 26292

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Boggie, Jeannie M.

A Husband and a Farm in Rhodesia.

Self. Gwelo 1959 stated 1st edition. Gilt title on chocolate cloth boards. 372pp illustrated 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. minor markings but an attractive VG copy with excellent contents. A biography starting at Author's elopement with Major Boggie from Kilblean, Aberdeenshire, to Gwelo in Rhodesia in 1917 up to 1959.

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Book number: 26336

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

Keywords: biography boggie gwelo south southern africa african rhodesia zimbabwe

Bulpin, T.V. (Ed). (Illus. Penny Miller).

Outpost. Stories of the Police of Rhodesia.

Books of Africa. Cape Town 1970. Printed boards. 293pp illustrated large 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. minor wear to edges, spine fading, overall clean G-VG condition. excellent contents. no dustwrapper as issued. a fairly attractive copy. Individual stories taken from the BSAP regimental magazine 'Outpost' reflecting the adventures and character of the Rhodesian police force.

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Book number: 26345

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Campbell, A.A. ('Mziki).

'mlimo. The Rise and Fall of the Matabele.

Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1972. Reprint of the 1926 edition with new Publisher's Introduction, map and illustrations. 1st edition thus. 192pp softcover with fold-in wraps. No inscriptions. VG+ condition. The British South Africa Company awarded this story 1st prize in a competition open to all employees of the Company in 1911. The incidents upon which the author based his tale were related to him by Malida, an old Matabele, in 1897.

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Book number: 23146

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Clegg, Edward.

Race and Politics. Partnership in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Oxford University Press. London 1960 1st edition. Dark plum cloth boards. x + 280pp illustrated maps, folding map at rear. 8vo. A Fine copy, exceptionally smart with unmarked contents and four square corners, but no dustwrapper. folding map as new. a beautiful copy. Author lived in Northern Rhodesia from 1951 to 1954 travelling extensively in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, revisiting them in 1956 under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations in London and financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Book number: 16971

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Colquhoun, Archibald R.

Matabeleland: The War and Our Position in South Africa. With Sketchmap of the Country.

Reprint No.40. The State Library. Pretoria 1969. Facsimile of the original 1894 publication. Tan cloth boards. 167pp 12mo. Bookplate to front pastedown. G-VG condition. foldout map excellent. no dustwrapper as issued. an excellent sound copy. Archibald Colquhoun was the first Administrator of Mashonaland, having accompanied the Pioneer Column invested with a commission from the British South Africa Company to assume such duties.

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Book number: 26407

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

Keywords: rhodesia zimbabwe south southern africa african mashonaland matabeleland manicaland british bechuanaland the bechuana protectorate british south africa company anglo boer war gold mining

Coltart, David.

The Struggle Continues 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe.

Jacana 2016. Softcover. 647pp illustrated. No inscriptions. VG+ condition. ISBN: 9781431423187 New light on the shaping and undoing of a country, from Ian Smith's UDI in 1965, through the civil war of the 1970s finally bringing independence, the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s with the terror war of the Fifth Brigade, to Mugabe's war on white farmers and the urban poor with his then seemingly unshakeable grip on power. Author's notes, records, diaries form much of the material upon which this book is based. He was then a human rights lawyer and from 2000 was an MDC member of the Zimbabwe parliament.

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Book number: 28350

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Cullen, Lucy Pope.

Beyond the Smoke That Thunders. Illustrated By Julian Brazelton.

Oxford University Press, New York 1940. Printed buckram boards, 341pp, illustrated b&w drawings. No inscription top edge browned, a sound copy in VG condition . text is very nice and clean. Humorous stories from the author's travels to the Rhodesian copperfields.

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Book number: 17298

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Dann, H.C.

The Romance of the Posts of Rhodesia, British Central Africa and Nyasaland. And: The Cancellations of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland.

Books of Zimbabwe. Bulawayo 1981. Newly Set Reprint Edition Combining The 1940 And 1950 Editions, Respectively, Of The Above Works. as originally published by Frank Godden and Robson Lowe. 1st edition thus. Chocolate cloth boards. 311pp illustrated 8vo. 0.6kg. Bookplate to front pastedown else a near Fine copy in VG+ dustwrapper (very minor wear to head of spine which is just slightly tanned. no chips. tears, or loss). ISBN: 9780869202203 'The Romance ...' is a standard reference work. In addition to the many pictures of postal significance, over 1300 cancellations are described of which about 150 are illustrated. Date stamps of particular rarity are noted. Some of the places mentioned have long since become ghost towns or have changed their names. It has been brought up to 1949 and includes the date-stamps of the R.A.F. camps in Rhodesia.

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Book number: 26359

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

Keywords: philately postal southern rhodesia northern rhodesia zimbabwe south southern africa african tanganyika nyasaland royal air force

Dibb, C. Emily. (Illustrated Hannes Meintjes).

Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks.

Books of Zimbabwe. Bulawayo 1981 1st edition. Orange cloth boards. 272pp illustrated 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. a bright VG+ copy in VG dustwrapper (minor wear, no chips, tears, or loss). an excellent copy. ISBN: 9780869202401 This is a delightful presentation of reminiscences involving a variety of animals, birds, and reptiles, and of unusual and even bizarre relationships with them. These are loosely strung on a biographical thread and were assembled from the personal experiences of the author, her family, and friends.

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Book number: 26357

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Du Toit, S.J.

Rhodesia Past and Present.

William Heinemann. London 1897 1st edition. Argent title and device on maroon boards. 218pp illustrated photographic plates. 8vo. Re-backed with original backstrip laid down and new endpapers, old endpapers with author's inscription retained. Boards rather marked, and the repairs are less than optimal. A sound reading copy. Inscribed by Author to original fep. Originally published as "Sambesia, Of Salomo's Goudmijnen Bezocht In 1895". Interesting descriptions of life in early Rhodesia with his comment upon travel, agricultural opportunities, flora & fauna, the early settlers - especially the Afrikaners, mining prospects, the first urban settlements, African tribal life, and Rhodes new telegraph and railway lines.

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Book number: 28262

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

Keywords: inscribed signed rhodesiana reprint library silver series rhodesia zimbabwe africa african south southern travel afrikaans paarl matabele syndicate

Fothergill, Rowland J.

The Monuments of Southern Rhodesia.

The Commission For The Preservation Of Natural And Historical Monuments And Relics. Bulawayo 1953. Gilt on grey cloth boards. 128pp illustrated b/w photos, map. 8vo. No inscription. sello offset to front pastedown else excellent contents. externally VG, in dustwrapper (sello offset to fold-ins, some chips and dibs, but clean and no major tears or loss). a clean-looking copy. The book groups these into five categories; distinctive & beautiful scenery, rock paintings & engravings, ruins, the Matabele invasion & occupation, the European occupation. At the rear is a list of 69 numbered and registered monuments with the important loose supplementary list continuing with items numbered 70 to 119.

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Book number: 24515

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

Keywords: rhodesia zimbabwe architecture rhodesian historical monuments southern africa african

Franklin, Harry.

The Flag-Wagger.

Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. London 1974 stated 1st edition. Blue cloth boards. 204pp 8vo. No inscription. VG in G-VG dustwrapper (light wear, no chips, tears, or loss). attractive table and shelf appearance. ISBN: 0856830062 An autobiography. Introduction by Elspeth Huxley. "He set off for Africa full of enthusiasm and high hopes, and although in the years which followed he woke up to the realities of imperial rule, he never lost his sincere interest in the well-being of the peoples he served. He was prepared to fight all comers, and it was perhaps inevitable that his concern should eventually lead to open conflict with Roy Welensky and other white settlers whose aims and principles differed from his own". He served in the colonial service in then Northern Rhodesia.

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Book number: 26297

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

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Gelfand. Michael.

Northern Rhodesia in the Days of the Charter. A Medical and Social Study 1878-1924.

Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1961 stated first printing. Blue cloth boards. 291pp illustrated, foldout map at rear. 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. edges dusty, conservatively a VG copy in G+ dustwrapper (spine darkened, sello marks inside, no chips, loss, or tears). contents excellent, map unmarked. Author describes the coming of the missionaries, the extirpation of slavery and the slave trade, the growth of communications and industry, political developments, the creation of town life and education: and the impact of all of this upon the untutored African. Overall looks at the origins of Northern Rhodesia before the British Government assumed full responsibility for this part of Africa

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Book number: 26384

Catalogue: Rhodesias & Nyasaland

Keywords: northern rhodesia zambia africa african central sesheke mission station kalomo hospital broken hill hospital lusaka hospital luangwa river sleeping sickness fort jameson kalomo police camp l.f. moores chemist shop abercorn jail northern rhodesia rifles ta