The Mabilles of Basutoland (First Edition Hardcover, 1939)

The Reverend Edwin William Smith FRAI was a Primitive Methodist missionary/anthropologist and author who was born in South Africa, studied at Elmfield College from 1888, and then worked in Africa. The Mabilles were Christian missionaries whose ultimate aim was the a nation of Christian Basuto. He believed in training the Basuto to take up their 'right and proper place' in the national Church of Basutoland.

Hardcover. English. Hodder and Stoughton. 1939 First Edition. 282 pp. In somewhat worn cream cloth, some foxing at front and end and fore-edges, Basutoland library stamps at front and rear also. Tatty dw in protective plastic. Book No: 2506251