Near fine half leather bindings with marbled boards. Internally very good with some rashes of light foxing. Both volumes have b/w frontispiece portraits of Lord Delamere. Vol I has 11 b/w illustrations and 2 folding maps, Vol II has 11 b/w illustrations and 3 maps, two of which are folding. Scarce.
Exceptionally signed by Huxley on the title page of Vol II.
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.
Huxley was appointed Assistant Press Officer to the Empire Marketing Board in 1929. She resigned her post in 1932 and travelled widely. Huxley started writing soon after her marriage; her first book, White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the making of Kenya about the famous white settler, was published in 1935.
- Jacket Condition: N/A
- Binding Condition: Near fine
- Overall Condition: Near Fine
- Size: 8 Vo
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