Cambridge at the University Press, 1940. x, 508 pages. Folding map of Gambia at the rear. Original red cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Re-backed with the original spine laid down; new endpapers; some pink staining to the edges of the first three leaves blank leaves; small faint mark on title; else a good copy. Inscribed on one of the endpapers; ‘To the Right Honourable Malcolm Macdonald from the Author.’ Malcolm MacDonald was the son of former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald. He was the Governor of Kenya in 1963.