Bushmen of the Southern Kalahari . . . (1937: with 4 of the 5 so-called expurgated plates)

Papers reprinted from Bantu Studies Vol X No 4 and Vol XI No 3, together with some additional material. Contributors: D F Bleek, M G Breyer-Brandwijk, R A Dart, C M Doke, M R Drennan, P R Kirby, I D MacCrone, J F Maingard and L F Maingard

This may be the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Bushmen, though some later writers, often no longer using the name "Bushmen", may have gone further.

All these experts joined Bain's camp in the Kalahari and came away with gold - in the form, for example, of Percival Kirby's music notation of many Bushman instruments and songs. The equally famous Raymond Dart contributed two chapters, including 72 pp on the physical characteristics of this particular group of Bushmen.

The book is also famous for its suppressed or omitted plates, from the large number intended to illustrate Dart's chapter (see below).

Mid-blue cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, plain endpapers, vii + 283 pp of illustrated text + 23 pp inserted pp of measurements + 8 full-page and other histograms + 2 fold-out tables + 109 inserted glossy plates (all at the end) + a 1 p acknowledgment - all unmarked, unfoxed and in very good or better condition.

Most copies of this book lack plates 73, 74, 75, 76 and 94, which were claimed to have been expurgated (presumably for their imagined offensiveness) at the time of publication, with the relevant pages left blank. One copy on offer on the internet is described as having some of these plates inserted loosely, but, as far as we have been able to ascertain, our copy is the only one at present on the market with plates 73-76 printed and bound in their correct position. However, plate 94 is still missing, with the page unprinted. One of the images reproduces Professor Dart's description of plates 73-76. Plate 94 is also described in the text.

The last two images show photographs dating taken in 1911.