Search Results: The Basuto by Hugh Ashton

London, Oxford U. Press 1955, 1955-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages.

International African Institute, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1967. Second Edition. 359 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Binding is loose. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and moderate rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.

(London, Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1955). 8vo; original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. xi + (i) + 355, incl. index; monochrome photographic plates; folding map. Dustwrapper slightly mottled, with trace of wear at head of spine panel; earlier owner's book label to front free endpaper, and an ownership hand-stamp to title page; occasional moderate foxing. Good condition. "This book, based largely on the author's personal experiences when living in the village of a Basuto Chief, provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture since the works of the French missionaries published early in the century. After a sketch of the historical and social background the author gives a detailed account of the daily lives and activities of the people, describing the upbringing and education of the children, initiation, marriage and funerary… Read More

Oxford University Press , 1967. 2nd edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Bookplate of a previous owner. 2nd edition, 1967. Publication of 359 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Sigma Press, 1952. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wraps are rubbed and marked.Internally clean.Excellent binding.29 pages.No date c.1978.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Oxford, 1952. 1st. Hardcover. A VG+ tight copy in a VG+ bright price clipped dj with lite wear to spine crown and litely toned spine.

London etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1953. 1st ed. . Grey-green Cloth. VG/Good+. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece photo+xi+353, 14 plates ex-pagination (mostly with 2 images); 1983-dated sig. top front endpaper, extensive tanned flecking to endpapers and pastedowns, spots also to top edge of text-block, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean unworn cover; unclipped jacket minimally worn bar a few short edge-nicks, but surface scrape to back alongside spine has caused slight text loss to two of the book notices, much brown flecking and slightly darkened spine. Very good reference/working copy.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Green cloth, xxxii, 359pp. Frontispiece, incl. 16 plates (recto & verso).Small rubber star stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in a near fine but slightly soiled jacket along the front edge. An analysis of the 'medicine murders' in 1945-1946, magic and sorcery, religious beliefs and education, as well as agriculture, trade, and law of the Basutoland people.

Paperback / softback. New. Originally published in 1952 and as a second edition in 1967 this volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture, and reviews the developments and changes leading up to 1966 when Basutoland achieved independence as Lesotho. It describes in detail daily lives, the education and upbringing of children, initiation, marriage, economic activities and political developments within and outside the country. It includes a discussion of tribal and modern law and the workings of the courts and a study of the part played by magic and sorcery and an analysis of the motives leading to the out break of 'medicine' murders in the 1940s.

Routledge, 2018. Paperback. New. 414 pages. 9.21x5.91x0.94 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Routledge, 2018. Hardcover. New. 359 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches.