These books formed part of a much larger collection donated by Zeala Howe to the former museum. The missing items are presumed to have been deaccessioned as duplicates. All these items were collected by the Howe family during and after their years in Kenya.
/1: "A Game Ranger's Note Book" by A. Blayney Percival, 1924, inscribed "W. G. Howe"
/2: "A Game Ranger on Safari" by A. Blayney Percival, 1928, inscribed "W. G. Howe"
/3: "The Company of Adventurers" by John Boyes, 1928, inscribed "Nairobi Jan 15 1931, Kenya Colony, with the author's compliments to my old friend Mr Howe, John Boyes"
/4: "Kenya: from Chartered Company to Crown Colony" by C.W. Hobley, 1929, inscribed "To Wesley with love from Reacie, March 2nd 1937"
/5: "Chronicles of Kenya" by A. Davis and H.J. Robertson, 1929, inscribed "W. G. Howe"
/6: "White Man's Country" by Elspeth Huxley, 1935, inscribed "Christmas 1936, from Reacie"
/7: "A Cuckoo in Kenya: the Reminscences of a Pioneer Police Officer in British East Africa" by W. Robert Foran, 1936, inscribed "W. G. Howe 1936"
/8: "Out in the Blue" by Vivienne de Watteville, 1937, inscribed "W. G. Howe"
/9: "Nyimbo za Jeshi la Wokofu" (Salvation Army Swahili Hymnbook), 1937, inscribed "To Mrs Howe with love from Annie [Fe...] Nairobi, K.C. Christmas 1940
/10: "Bantu Beliefs and Magic" by C.W. Hobley, 1938
/11: "East Africa" by Elspeth Huxley, 1941, inscribed "Z.J. Howe, 1943." Includes magazine article on Elspeth Huxley folded inside front cover.
/12: "Here is Africa" by Ellen and Attilio Gatti, 1943, badly water damaged.
/13: "One African Colony" by Christopher J. Wilson, 1945, pamphlet from the Signpost Series.
/14: "Hunter" by J.A. Hunter, [1950s], pages within home-made cardboard cover, tied with wool
/15: "Their Excellencies" by Canon W.J. Wright, [1951], book jacket ripped in places
/16: "Mau Mau and the Kikuyu" by L.S.B. Leakey, 1953, badly water damaged and book jacket ripped in places
/17: Spiral-bound offprint from "African Saga" by Mirella Ricciardi, [1981]
