Morrison, W. M. Grammar of the Buluba-Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper Kasai and Congo Basin; Prepared for the American Presbyterian Congo Mission

Morrison, W. M. Grammar of the Buluba-Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper Kasai and Congo Basin; Prepared for the American Presbyterian Congo Mission by W. M. Morrison, Missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the Belgian Congo. Luebo, Congo Belge: J. Leighton Wilson Press, (1930). Revised Edition. [7742] Peach cloth, titles in black to spine & front, spine a bit faded. some fraying to the corners & ends, about 6 x 8 3/4 inches. x., 189 clean pp., tight. Good. Hardcover. The Preface to this Revised Edition is dated December 15, 1930, written from Mutoto, Congo Belge. The first edition was published in 1906."The Presbyterian Mission and its Press have made a profound impact on the language of Central Africa. The mission not only issued the first written works in the Tshiluba language [Buluba-Lulua], it issued these publications in a transliteration which is a technical masterpiece, faithfully executed by William M. Morrison. Morrison's lexicographical work received th