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London: The Sheldon Press, 1922. [2] viii, 88pp, with frontispiece and three further illustrative plates inserted. Original publisher's illustrated boards with the corresponding design on the dustwrapper. Minor foxing to all edges, internally bright and clean; a fine copy in the rare dustwrapper. Pencil ownership to front flap, repeated with 'xmas 1925' to FFEP. A collection of short stories retold by Rosetta Baskerville, collected by her over some years while living in Uganda. The preface explains the collection is in part inspired by 'Engero za Baganda', 1901, written by Katikkiro Prime Minister) Apollo Kagwa (1864-1927), published 1901 in Lugandan, though out of print by the time Baskerville's adaptations were published. . First edition. 8vo.