Colenso John William Edgecombe Ruth (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, slightly marked, edge worn and scuffed in places. The book is complete with all maps and plates as called for. The spine is a little discoloured. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Killie Campbell Africana Library Reprint Series, Number 4. 8vo; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. xlvi + (iv) + 252; frontis. portrait; illustrations; folding map. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel; merest trace of foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. "The usefulness of this material extends beyond the interests of the student in missionary endeavour. For here there is vital information on the early history of the Zulu kingdom under Mpande. For the historian of ideas, fascinating light is cast on the interaction of intellectual currents emanating from England, and ideas and attitudes shaped in a colonial and a traditional context. In a sense Colenso operated simultaneously in three kinds of environment: as thinker in the intellectual world of England, as bishop in the colony of Natal, and as missionary confronting the traditional world of the Zulu.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint series no 4. Publication of 252 pages. The dust jacket is slightly edge worn, shelf rubbed and scuffed in places. There are marks on the dust jacket and around the block of the book. Underneath the boards remain in good condition. Still presents handsomely in cellophane. The pages are bright and attractive, and the text remains clear. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards are shelf rubbed.Rubber stamp.A bit scribbled on front end page.Tightly bound.Very good copy with a fold-out map at back.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.