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THE TRIAL OF JOMO KENYATTA.
Edition: First edition.
London: Secker & Warburg, (1955.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive account of the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, a trial which took 5 months in the winter of 1952-53, on charges of being the leader of Kenya's Mau-Mau. Index of incidents. 255 pp.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (the usual rather severe browning to the pages, front endpaper clipped at top) in a dust jacket for the US market with the price in dollars of $4.50.
Book ID: 48648More details Price: $30.00 -
THE COUNTRY OF THE GREY GODS: A Novel of Africa.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Putnam, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in a now vanished colonial world - set in Mozambique in East Africa, with a Viennese actress has come to recover her health, an English sisal planter, an Anglo-Portuguese elephant hunter and more, who become involved in the investigation of a Mau-Mau murder. First published as 'Der Koloss', Austria, 1959. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. 423 pp. Dust jacket design by Oscar.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some toning to the pages, foxing to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 64333More details Price: $30.00