Pp. xxi, 362, 23 fine color plates, mostly by O.S. Tassart and D. Fitchew, 18 full page text-figures, 2 diagrams, 2 folding maps. Publisher’s quarter tan cloth with paper title label on spine and on front board, over blue-gray boards, lg 8vo. This is the rare first edition in book form. The first appearance of the work was in the Uganda Journal (1936-1937). The following year it was published in book form. Sales slowed with the outbreak of World War II in 1939. The remaining copies were shipped to London and placed in a warehouse where they were subsequently destroyed in an enemy bombing raid. These factors have contributed to the great scarcity of the work. This copy is signed by Charles Pitman on the front attached endpaper. On the front free endpaper there is the following inscription: “Presented by the Uganda Educational Association to J. Sykes, Esq., Kampala, 18th January, 1946.” John Sykes was then editor of the Uganda Journal, the official journal of the Uganda Society. John Sykes is likely a descendant of the zoologist Sykes who described several species of African mammals in the 1830s.