My African Garden. by MacDonald, Sheila - 1928

This is an Advanced Review Copy (ARC) of "My African Garden" by Sheila MacDonald. 1928 1st edition, 1st printing (stated); The Century Co.; New York. Included with this copy is the publisher's original review sheet which states "Please Do Not Release Your Review Before This Date." The book contains four full-page photographic plates.From the publisher's review sheet: "Here is a charming book for an evening's light reading - the annals of a gay and plucky settler's family in Rhodesia. Life in South Africa, they find, is no bed of roses - especially if the planting of a flower garden be one of the prime ends of living - for what with sandstorms, hailstorms, locusts, droughts, and government 'bughunters' the garden becomes a very precarious thing indeed. They do create a very lovely garden, however, and in the intervals when they are not on the jump to defend it from the elements they are occupied in dealing with incompetent black servants, restraining a pair of irrepressible eight-year-old twins,… Read More

New York: Century Company, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. About fine in an attractive, near very good price-clipped dustwrapper which has been internally repaired at the rear spine and flap fold, and has some light chipping at the crown. Account of the author's garden in Rhodesia. Scarce in jacket.