Johannesburg: Hortons Ltd. for the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, 1938. First edition, vi, 155 pp. with 40 full page sepia-tinted and captioned tissue-guarded photographs.
A comprehensive work on the language, folklore, social organization and customs of the Bantu.
Black cloth-boards with gilt design and lettering to the front and gilt lettering to the spine, plain endpapers, 155 pp of text with frontispiece and 40 other inserted illustrations from photographs by the noted anthropological photographer A. M. Duggan-Cronin. A near fine copy in the dust jacket. A name in ink on title page.
Junod was a noted missionary and anthropologist and his book was sponsored by the then South African Chamber of Mines, whose workers were recruited from different regions of the subcontinent, speaking Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Shangaan, Ndebele, Shona and other Nguni and Sotho Bantu languages.
- Jacket Condition: Near fine
- Binding Condition: Near Fine
- Overall Condition: Near Fine
- Size: 16 x 25 cm
