S T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (London: P S King & Son, Ltd, May 1916). First edition. 1000 copies printed, 500 bound up for sale.

S T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (London: P S King & Son, Ltd, October 1916). Second edition.

Consisted of the remaining 500 copies from the first printing. Includes a new chapter entitled ‘Report of the Lands Commission: An Analysis’, bound in at the beginning of the book. Also adds two pages with ‘Some Opinions of the Press on the First Edition’, along with advertisements for Plaatje's Sechuana Proverbs and A Sechuana Reader, the latter co-authored with Daniel Jones.

S T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (London: P S King & Son, Ltd, February 1917). Third edition. Separate impressions for P S King & Son, London; Tsala ea Batho, Kimberley; and The Crisis, New York. ‘Report of the Lands Commission’ chapter moved to the end of the book. Folded map added as insert.

S T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (Kimberley: Tsala ea Batho, and New York: The Crisis, 1920).

Fourth edition.

No impression by P S King & Son located.

S T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (London: P S King & Son, Ltd, 1921). Fifth edition. No impression for Tsala ea Batho and The Crisis located.

S T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969). Facsimile of Third edition.

Sol T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982).

Paperback edition. Foreword by Bessie Head, Introduction by Brian Willan. Sol T Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (Harlow: Longman, 1987). African Classics Series.

Abbreviated paperback edition, omitting chapters 22–24. Introduction by Brian Willan.