SIGNED BOOK. – Diana STRICKLAND. Through the Belgian Congo. London: Hurst and Blackett, [1924.] First edition, signed by the author to the frontispiece, 8vo (224 x 146mm.) Photographic portrait frontispiece, photographic plates. (Toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth (finger-marks to spine and lower cover). Note: Strickland writes of the ‘uplifting experience of finding oneself in command of an expedition’. She is fully involved in the hunting and skinning of animals and makes soap from hippopotamus fat. She is also fully aware of the brutality of the colonial Belgians in the Congo. Provenance: ‘W.H.W.’ (ink note to title page: ‘given to W.H.W. by the author’).