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New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint of the 1903 Edition . Hardcover. VG+/No Jacket. xvi, 422 pp. With illustrations, map, index. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine.

New York: Negro Universities Press., 1969. xvi, 422pp, index, appendix, map, bw ills. Or brown cloth, no jacket as issued. One page slightly oversize and projecting from text block at top and bottom, otherwise near new. The Nyasaland Protectorate under the British Foreign Office. Includes several chapters on various aspects of the 'natives' lives, customs and character. Aslo chapter on big game, section on Arab slave traders, chpter on religion/missions and another on northeastern Rhodesia. Originally published in 1903.. Facsimile Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: George Bell and sons, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition with a new introduction by General Manning. Maroon boards with black drawing and lettering to front and spine. Spine is faded and bumped top and bottom. Inner hinges are beginning to crack front and back endpapers but otherwise binding is tight. Pages are age tanned. Photographs and illustrations by the author.A fascinating account of Central Africa at the turn of the 20thC. Very Good 1906

London: George Bell and Sons. 1st printing (1903). 422pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine and pictorial black panel on front cover. Ink ownership stamp on front pastedown of the Earl of Donoughmore dated 1904, indicating Irish peer and Conservative politician Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore KP PC (1875-1948), styled Viscount Suirdale until 1900. VG copy, binding square and tight, covers bright with some spots of rubbing, endpapers darkened, some light foxing and heavier to tissue-guard . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1903.

George Bell and Sons, London, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 422 pages (complete). A benign, contented book. The boards are worn and scuffed from storage. They are placid and sure. Within, the early and later pages have some foxing. The contents, especially taking their age into account, are clear, confident. The frontispage has a previous owner signature. The pages are tight, youthful and healthy. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

, xxxii, 422 pages, complete with frontispiece, 15 plates and folding map at the rear

Second edition with a new introduction and material changes. George Bell and Sons. London. 1906. 8vo. xxxii, 422pp. Photo frontis., 16 further plates, folding coloured map. Original pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering to spine, a little faded. Slight wear to top and tail of spine. Bookseller's plate "Chas E Lauriat Co, Boston" to lower edge of ffep. Endpapers lightly toned, otherwise a bright crisp copy. The new introduction comprehensively addresses the material changes in Nyasaland since the original publication of this book in 1903, and clarifies some areas which "were somewhat misunderstood".
"The book has much to say of wars, chiefs, customs. We commend the chapter on "Big Game" specially. "Nyasa affords probably the finest sport obtainable in Africa today" The Spectator 27 April 1907.