Rev Kitching (4 results)

24+295 pags, flding map, many photographs : his peronal experiences & observations of 10 years spent among the outlying tribes of Uganda, mainly Banyoro & Toro with details of homes, food, language, social life, dress, crafts, patsimes, surestitions, etc.; hardback, original bright boards, gilt lettering & design of 2 fighting natives with spears, top edge gilt, small crease to rear board, outer hinges sl rubbed, a little foxing, almost vg FIRST EDITION, a heavy book that may attract extra postage east africa uganda ugandan tribes tribal life banyoro toro bunyoro uganda tribal customs.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Rev. A. L. Kitching (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this highly illustrated study into child race in central Africa. Illustrated first edition of this work. Including 56 photographic illustrations by the author on 48 plates and a foldout map of the Uganda Project to the rear. Collated complete. Bookplate of H. R. Nelson to front pastedown. Written by Reverend Arthur Leonard Kitching, an Anglican missionary, bishop and author. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with some shelf wear to the extremities. The occasional light mark to the boards. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Backstrip repaired at head. Bookseller label to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with scattered spotting and slight age toning. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Rev. A. L. Kitching (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Arthur Leonard Kitching's publication of his observations drawn from a decade spent amongst the tribes of the Ugandan Protectorate. An Anglican missionary, Kitching shares his experiences, and provides an anthropological account of the different customs and lives of the natives of Africa. With chapters on language, social life, the homestead and agriculture.Illustrated with a folding map to the rear, and with fifty-six reproductions of photographs taken by the author, printed on forty-eight plates. Collated, complete.With the inscription of Catherine Hitching, 1914, to a front blank.A smart copy of this fascinating study. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front hinge starting. Inscription to head of a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting and handling marks to first few leaves, with pages otherwise generally bright. Very Good. book.

First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], ix-xxiv, 295, [1]; folding map and 56 photographic illustrations on 48 plates; light wear at the extremities, especially the lower corners and very slight cracking at the top of the spine; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good.