146. GOULDSBURY, Cullen. FROM THE OUTPOSTS. 1914. Top edge gilt.
Original suede covers. Poems of South Africa. An uncommon first edition. £20.00


Known also as "the Kipling of Rhodesia", Gouldsbury's poetry is in turn lyrical, picturesque, breezy, humorous, tender and beautiful. Henry Cullen Gouldsbury entered the service of the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia in 1902, and was transferred to Northern Rhodesia, where he was promoted to Native Commissioner, in 1910. He died during the First World War while acting as liaison officer between the Belgian and British military forces in Uganda. He was 35 years old.