Inscribed copy. Rare inscribed copy of Stanley's final book. It consists of articles originally published in the journal, South Africa. Stanley had travelled to South Africa for the opening of the Bulawayo Railway in 1897.

The inscription reads:'The surrender of the Boer king / now completed I recommend the reading / of Chap V of this little book, I would give / a great deal to know the myriad thoughts / of the "choleric & obstinate old man" who / is the chief subject of that chapter / Henry M Stanley / London, June 1902.

The 'choleric & obstinate man' was Paul Kruger whom Stanley met in 1897 and to whom he took a strong dislike. The inscription, to the professional book collector James Young, was made just after the conclusion of the Second Boer War on 31st May, 1902.

First edition. 12mo, xx, 140, portrait frontispiece with Stanley's inscription to recto, 11 photographic plates, folding colour map, original yellow cloth lettered in black, a fine, bright copy.