East Africa from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(London: Aurum Press, 2013) 9781781310854. 8vo; original crimson boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xvi + (ii) + 318, incl. index; plates, incl. full-colour; map. Fine condition. "'Happy Valley' came to be a byword for hedonistic excess. The nickname given to the Wanjohi Valley in he Kenya Highlands, it commemorated the small community of… Read more about this item

(London: Heinemann, 1977) 0435945262. 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 215, incl. index; several maps, text figures, tables. Dustwrapper partially sunned; trace of stippling to edges of cloth. Very good condition. "This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of economic history and historiography in East Africa. Indeed it… Read more about this item

(London: Robert Hale, 1938). Medium 8vo; original cerise cloth; tinted top edge; no dustwrapper; pp. 320; plates; two maps. Spine very lightly sunned; boards a little rubbed and stippled. A very clean, bright copy. "The European Powers which have partitioned Africa stand on the same level in my eyes. Abusing their strength and knowledge, they have taken away from the… Read more about this item

(London: "East Africa", 1934). Tall 8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. xvii + (i) + 376, incl. index; photographs; maps; adverts. Cloth somewhat worn and stippled; boards distorted from rough storage; edges, endpapers and outermost leaves foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Fair to good condition. In-depth examination of the resources and prospects for… Read more about this item

(Tolworth: Fountain Press, 1988) 0863431852. 4to; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 111; several illustrations, in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine panel; light bump to top fore-corner of upper board; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Ray Nestor travelled to Kenya to work as a surveyor two years before the… Read more about this item

(London: Jonathan Cape, 2006) 9780224063804. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pictorial endpapers; pp. (xvi) + 284, incl. index; maps; plates. A little spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a… Read more about this item

(London: Harvill, 1990) 0002721732. 212 x 134 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xxv + (i) + 451, incl. index. Foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "George and Joy Adamson, Karen Blixen, Winston Churchill, Cyril Connolly, Ernest Hemingway, Jomo Kenyatta, Richard and Mary Leakey, Beryl Markham, Shiva Naipaul, Laurens van der Post, Evelyn Waugh and Elspeth Huxley… Read more about this item

(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993) 0821219073. 4to; original tan cloth, lettered in black on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pictorial endpapers; pp. (viii) + 199; profusely illustrated, largely in monochrome, with some full-colour plates. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel; some fox spots to top edge. Very good condition. "The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard… Read more about this item

(London: Harvill Press, 1983) 0002726394. 4to; original dark brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 192, incl. index; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs. Top edge of dustwrapper very slightly curled; top edge a little foxed. Very good condition. "Africa is changing fast: ancient cultures - dominated by tribal customs, the… Read more about this item

(London: Museum Press, 1955). 8vo; original black boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 190; plates. Dustwrapper slightly foxed and edgeworn; pages somewhat foxed. Good. "C. T. Stoneham has drawn upon his vast knowledge and experience of Kenya to present a picture of this troubled country that must impress all those concerned with her… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2001) 1-919-87436-4. 212 x 140 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + xiv + 359; black-and-white photographs; map. Very good condition. .

(London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937). 8vo; original green cloth, blocked in black on spine and upper cover; pp. 316 + adverts; plates. Cloth a little stippled and rubbed; boards slightly bowed; gift inscription to front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout. Good. A book largely devoted to a tour of Kenya and its lovely estate gardens. "The tenth… Read more about this item

(no place: Voortrekkerpers, 1951). 8vo; original blue papered boards; pp. 287; photographs. Boards a little splayed; some foxing to page edges. Good. Afrikaans text. Although Rolprentavonture saw several printings, it is probably the hardest of Sangiro's works to find. The origins of Sangiro's move from hunting and journalism to wildlife filmmaking are described thus in… Read more about this item

(Lon., Jarrolds, 1960). Orig. cl., rubbed, pp. 224, b&w photo. plts. some foxing on the epp., prelims and edges, bookplate and owner's name on the fpd., owner's label on the dedication page. .

(London: HarperCollins, 2001). 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xv + (i) + 470, incl. index; several maps; monochrome photographic plates. Near fine condition; dustwrapper edges very slightly curled and spine panel a little sunned. "Ewart Grogan, a gentleman adventurer dubbed 'the boldest and baddest of a bold, bad gang' of pioneering settlers in… Read more about this item

(London, Andre Deutsch, 1978). Laminated dustwrapper, pp. 252. Owner's name on the front free endpaper, a little foxing on the edges. .

(London, 1965). Small quarto, pictorial dustwrapper, slightly worn, original cloth, endpaper maps, pp. 232, numerous line illustrations. 'Includes drawings from most areas, from Karamoja in the orth-east to Kigezi in the south-west. ... subjects embrace a wide field: landscape and botanical studies, drawings of animals in their natural setting or as close-up studies, sketches and portraits of people belonging to… Read more about this item

(London, Cassell, 1955). 8vo; green boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 249 including index; black-and-white plates; name of previous owner on front free endpaper; scattered foxing. Good condition. "Alastair Scobie spends his time in the wilder parts of East Africa looking for trouble - principally wild-animal trouble. With a film camera and a gun he wanders over the long… Read more about this item

(Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1955). With thirty-four photographs by the author. 8vo; decorative boards a little rubbed and bumped; no dustwrapper; endpaper maps; past owner's name on fly-leaf; pp. 243, incl. glossary; black-and-white photographic plates. Good condition. A factual account of life in Tanganyika Territory, by the author of the Jungle Doctor Series. .

(New York, David Mckay Company, 1969). Written and illustrated by James Ralph Johnson. Pictorial dustwrapper, torn, original cloth, pp. 218, line illustrations. Endpapers and edges slightly foxed. 'The Ngorongoro Conservation Area ... is truly an animal paradise, and like no other spot on earth today. It has the largest concentration of big game in Africa, all living natural lives out… Read more about this item