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Very Good. PB, 130pp, fold-out chart. VG+. Detailed study of Sukuma political institutions. This copy from the collection of noted Africana collector Humphrey Winterton, with his oval initialled book-plate. Scarce. CB2.
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CORY, Hans. THE INDIGENOUS POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE SUKUMA AND PROPOSALS FOR POLITICAL REFORM. Nairobi [now Kenya]: Published For The East African Institute Of Social Research by The Eagle Press, 1954. 8vo., printed blue wraps, 130 pages. First Edition with a fold-out chart in the rear. East African Studies No. 2. Cory was a government anthropologist in Tanganyika who collected a valuable assortment of local histories and manuscripts for the collection of the former East African Swahili Committee. Signed presentation from Cory on the title page: "For Jimmy and Trudee, to remind them on the Lake [illegible word], Mwanza July 1955. Hans C." Good condition (minor edgewear with a very tiny hole near the spine on the front cover; contents nice). Books signed by Cory are scarce! $175.00.
