Selous (Frederick Courteney)

Both before and during the recent native insurrection up to the date of the disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force. 

First Edition: 290 pages + 10 pages publisher's catalogue, frontispiece, folding map, 9 plates, 6 illustrations in the text, uncut edges - original buckram cloth with title and decoration on the spine is which is faded to brown as usual, distinctive Rowland Ward black zebra skin patterned endpapers, a very good copy. 

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 302: After the close of the Matabele War, Mr. Selous returned to England, but in 1895 was offered an appointment in Matabeleland, and proceeding to Rhodesia, took up the management of the Essexvale Estate in the neighbourhood of Bulawayo. He was busied in the organisation of the property till March 1896, when the rebellion broke out, and he assumed the command of the H troop of the Bulawayo Field Force, which he retained till the conclusion of hostilities.