1938 first edition in secondhand condition. 155 pages. Some wear to the ends of the spine covers. Name in ink in front. With 40 full page sepia-tinted and captioned tissue-guarded photographs.

A comprehensive work on the language, folklore, social organization and customs of the Bantu.

 With frontispiece and 40 other inserted illustrations from photographs by the noted anthropological photographer A. M. Duggan-Cronin.

Junod was a noted missionary and anthropologist and his book was sponsored by the then South African Chamber of Mines, whose workers were recruited from different regions of the subcontinent, speaking Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Shangaan, Ndebele, Shona and other Nguni and Sotho Bantu languages.