1925 The Flame Tree & Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda : Rosetta Baskerville

The Flame Tree And Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda

By Rosetta Baskerville

Published By Church Missionary Society London, Undated, [1925]. Hardback book in original dust jacket, publisher's original grey pictorial boards with title lettering in black to the spine and upper cover in the rare Dust-Jacket which mirrors the design of the outer boards.8vo, 113pp, with 8 b&w drawings by E. G. Morris.

CONDITION
A good copy. The dust jacket is good with just one small 4mm closed tear at the base of the spine. Slight fading to backstrip. Boards and spine very good. Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness and with no leaning to spine. There is a lengthy gift inscription to the front endpaper addressed from Christ Church in Bootle and is dated 1929. Some spotting and age toning to the endpapers and some sporadic foxing to certain pages within the text and to the page edges. Overall a good copy in a scarce jacket.

Quote from the beginning of the book as follows:
"Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in the village of Si in Kyagwe country. Her parents had no other children, and as she grew older they saw with joy that she was more beautiful every day. People who passed through the village saw her and spoke of her beauty until everyone in Kyagwe knew that the most lovely girl in the country lived in the village of Si — and everyone in the province called her “the Maiden.”

The Maiden was a gentle, sweet child, and she loved all the animals and birds and butterflies and flowers, and played with them and knew their language. Her parents were very proud of her, and they often talked of the time when she should be grown up and marry a great chief with many cows and gardens and people, and bring great wealth to her tribe."

(Location : Folklore Shelf)