Search Results: blazing trails in bantuland by campbell dugald

Pickering & Inglis, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front blank. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable insect damage to boards.

Pickering & Inglis. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. Nd. 1933?. A very good copy in light blue cloth lettered in black on the spine. In a good dustwrapper which shows fairly minor tears and chipping to the edges. The dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Some top edge and a little fore-edge foxing but a clean copy internally. No ownership inscription. 228 pages + 3 pages publisher's adverts. Frontispiece and 25 illustrations. Map on front end-papers. The author was an African explorer and missionary. This is an uncommon and interesting record of his journeys in the wilds of Central Africa with an account of the peoples he encountered and their customs and beliefs.

London: Pickering & Inglis. Cloth. Near Fine. Smaller, very thick sturdy book, gray cloth, shiny black lettering on spine, tiny brown spotting to exterior page edges, 228 stiff heavy pages with extensive catalog. Photographs throughout. Light wear to tips. Near Fine.

London : Pickering & Inglis, [1933]. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not stated. A very scarce work on the Bantu people of Africa written by missionary and amateur ethnologist Dugald Campbell A very scarce work by missionary and amateur ethnologist Dugald Campbell. With 25 illustrations, collated and complete. Alongside chapters on Lufira Valley, Johnston falls, and Luapula, Campbell also observes the language, customs, and culture of those he interacts with. Campbell was a Scottish pastor who's missions in Africa have been described in his other works 'In the Heard of Bantuland' and 'Wanderings in Central Africa'. Undated. Dated using JISC from a copy held in the National Library of Scotland. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the boards and the spine. A little bumped to the head and the tail of the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Foxing to the fore edge. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright with a few scattered… Read More

London: Pickering & Inglis, 1933. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. 228, [4, ads] + frontispiece and 12 double-sided plates. Original dark green cloth, colour-printed dustjacket. Some spotting, particularly to textblock edge. Spine-ends a little bumped, dustjacket soiled, torn and chipped with small losses at ends of spine panel. Signed to half-title ‘Dugald Campbell, 1934, Arbroath’, ‘the author’ in ink above. A work by Scottish missionary, amateur ethnologist and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society Dugald Campbell. It contains chapters on ‘Bantuland and Bantu Languages’, ‘Cannibalism, slavery, and Congo horrors’ and ‘Witchcraft and cruelties’. Rare in dustjacket.