Sir Philip Mitchell (8 results)

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 637-275. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Poster.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Tatty DJ with some edge wear, tears, age tone and creasing.

8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; xix, [i], 17 -288 pp, frontis (portrait), map endpapers, tables, index. original cloth, spine title lettering and decorations, lower front cover with light small stain, dj (worn, chipped, repair, price clipped), interior is clean and fine in very good cover, in fair jacket. The author, who was governor of Uganda and Kenya, describes the last 40 years, the impact of modern industrial expansion, the troubles in Kenya, causes of violence, politics, etc, with useful statistical tables on demographics and trade, showing changes over time. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Paper Covers (original). Condition: Good. No Jacket (Not Applicable). 8 pages, typed up speech on 4 foolscap sheets, stapled together. Complete and clean, edges are chipped and has been folded (and will be shipped folded).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. 1954, First Edition. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Edition. 290pp, e.p. maps, frontispiece portrait. Boards clean and sharp, contents bright, unmarked and free from previous owner's marking of any sort. Dust Jacket worn, particularly to edges, some internal repairs, now in mylar protective covering.…

Paperback. (Colony and Protectorate of Kenya). 40pp, 2 coloured fldg. maps card covers Nairobi 1947. Ex-library copy.

Full Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original full light blue cloth hardcover. Jacket is not price clipped but has modest wear and clear tape reinforcement at the edges. Now brodart protected. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall an EXCELLENT book in a VERY GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952, and the atrocities committed by the rebels were matched by those of the British, whose Attorney General in Kenya, Eric Griffith-Jones, wrote to Governor Baring in 1957 that the colony's detention camps for Mau Mau suspects were 'distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia'. He advised that suspects be beaten mainly on their upper bodies, and that those administering violence should 'remain, collected, balanced and dispassionate', also commenting: 'If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly.' Among the victims of British brutality was Hussein Onyango Obama, grandfather of President Barack Obama. From a batch of Foreign Office documents, including material from the Information Research Department (for whose activities, financed from the budget of the Special Intelligence Service, otherwise MI6, see The Times, 17 August 1995; and also Michael Cullis's obituary of Sir John Peck in the Independent, 20 January 1995). Duplicated typescript. Headed: '(a) The political and economic effect of MAU MAU in KENYA.' 8pp, foolscap 8vo. Paginated '(a) 1' to '(a) 7', including interpolated passage on '(a) 2A'. Complete, with catchwords to all but the last page. Divided into five sections, headed: 'What is Mau Mau?', 'Action against Mau Mau terrorism', 'Sir Philip Mitchell's dispatch on East African economic problems' (with subsections on 'Population Problems', 'Labour problems and Wages', 'Social Welfare'), 'Royal Commission for East Africa', 'Development plans for Kenya'. The first section begins: 'Before considering in detail what the secret society called Mau Mau is, and what are its aims; it will be as well to examine traditional background of the tribe of Africans involved the Kikuyu.' The section includes an 'account of the barbaric rites practised at Mau Mau initiation ceremonies', from 'the Nairobi Correspondent of The Times' (9 October 1952). The section on 'Mau Mau terrorism' begins with a description of the police response to 'the murder of Chief Waruhiu', and discusses the activities of Jomo Kenyatta. The points of Sir Evelyn Baring's 'programme for the economic and social development of Kenya' (28 October 1952) are enumerated in the last section, followed by a description of Governor Baring's'defence plans'. No other copy traced.…