The Lango a Nilotic Tribe of Uganda by Driberg J H (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book bound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles, light wear along eges and spine ends, one or two little blemishes, but remaining neat bright and square. Upper closed page edge dyed blue, other edges rough cut and browned. Hinge and text block firm, though webbing revealled along the upper edge. Small contemporaneous inked inscription to the front end paper. Pages smooth, clean, random brown spots here and there. Frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated thoughout with photographic plates and a fold out map at the rear in excellent condition. A very nice well preserved book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, London, 1923. 1st Edition. 8vo, pp468 complete with 23 photographic illustrations including frontispiece and fold out map to rear. Hardcover no dustjacket. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top of spine that has a little fraying with a little bumping to tips. Inside a few ex-library stamps from London zoological society but only on rear of frontispiece, ffe paper and title page. All other rough cut pages with dyed top fore edge in very good condition as is map to rear. An excellent copy of a scarce edition.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. First Edition. 468 p. 26 cm. Frontispiece of the author, 22 other b&w plates, fold-out map at rear. Blue cloth hardcover with gold lettering. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo). Some wrinkling to cloth and softening of spine ends. Bookplate on front pastedown. This 1923 study of the Lango people of north-central Uganda narrates the origins and history of the group, which had a form of government based on minor clan chiefs before the arrival of British rule. Jack Herbert Driberg (18881946) was a British official in the service of the Uganda Protectorate in 191221 and lived and worked among the Lango, for whom he developed both sympathy and admiration. He describes the ethnology of the Lango nation, their environment, the geographical features of their territory, a detailed record of village life, materials goods, social organization, religion, magic, and witchcraft. The study also contains Driberg's analysis of the Lango people's Luo language and his LangoEnglish dictionary at rear. The book concludes with a series of Lango fables.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very smart, first edition copy of this scarce anthropological work on the Lango people of Uganda, fully illustrated and in the incredibly scarce original dust wrapper. A fascinating and very comprehensive ethnographic and anthropological work on the Lango people, a Nilotic ethic group in Uganda.Written in the early twentieth century by Jack Herbert Driberg, a British anthropologist and part of the Uganda protectorate.Including a foreword by Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon, former Governor of the Uganda Protectorate.Including a frontispiece, eleven additional plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated and complete.In the original, unclipped dust wrapper, incredibly scarce in this state. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with just some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is slightly sunned, and darkened to the spine. Some light chipping and edgewear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, particularly to the head of the rear joint. Some minor offsetting to the interior of the wrap. Internally, book is generally firmly bound. A few instances of light spotting throughout, particularly to the first and last few pages and pages opposite the plates, not affecting readability. Very Good Indeed. book.

First edition. Portrait, folding map & numerous illustrations. 8vo. Good original cloth. 468pp. London, This work includes a vocabulary, grammar, folk tales, and much else.

First edition. Portrait frontispiece, folding map & 12 plates. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, some occasional spotting. 468pp. London, Working for the Colonial Civil Service, the author lived among the Lango for six and a half years. This work includes a vocabulary, grammar, folk tales, and much else.

London: (1923). Roy. 8vo. Or. cl. (spine slightly discoloured). (468 pp.). With portr., num. plates, text-illusts., and large fold. map. NOTE: Containing the Ethnology (pp. 23 - 268); Grammar (pp.269-353); Vocabularies (pp.355-440) and Fables (pp.441-457). 1st ed. Uncut.