London: Noel Doublas, 1926. Black cloth spine gilt lettered and light brown boards. 259 pp. Endpaper tanning from binding; partial cracks to inner hinges neatly repaired; 1/4 inch tear to top edge of front free endpaper; foxing to bottom page edges; else a VG, unopened jacketless copy. A collection of tales and sketches of South Africa. Three of his titles are in Bleiler, but not this one. Scarce.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1963. Octavo, 304 pp, blue boards. Sticker stain to upper inner front pastedown, light yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has light rubbing; light dust soiling to rear panel; ring stain to front panel noticable only with a close look; VG+ otherwise, still attractive. A collection of short stories. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1963. Octavo, 304 pp. Blue boards. Light foxing to top page edges; Canadian distributor's name and Canadian price indicated in ink to upper inner corner of rear pastedown (the copy was owned by a book reviewer), else fine, no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket shows yellowing to white spine lettering; light soiling to white rear panel; creases to foot of spine; 1 cm nick to upper inner corner of front panel; else VG, attractive. A collection of short stories. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

London / Amherst: Sinclair Browne / University of Massachusetts, 1983. Octavo, brown boards. pp 336. Fine copy, no owner marks. Pink dust jacket has spine sunning, else fine.

London: Heinemann, 1933. Fourth printing. Red cloth. pp (18), 326 + plates. Index. Spine a little sunned with nicks, short tear, at ends, ink owner inscriptions at front, a few small light spots to front cover, good clean and tight jacketless copy otherwise. His military experiences before and during the Great War and including the Boer War. Seely commanded the Canadian Cavalry Brigade from its formation in Jan. 1915 until May 1918.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, light blue cloth. Spine lightly sunned, minor foxing to page edges, else a VG+ jacketless copy, no owner names. A scarce issue, made from sheets of the London first edition, with a cancel title leaf. A novel by the noted South African writer.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. The paper issue. pp xiv, 226. Index, bibliography, notes. Ink owner name at front, else fine. "The South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region populated by five million people, four million of whom were black. This is the first history of the war to focus upon the wartime experiences of black people, and to examine the war in the context of a complex and rapidly changing colonial society increasingly shaped, but not yet transformed, by mining capital. " - cover

England: Wren's Park, 2001. Reprint of the 1999 Sutton edition. 274 pp + plates. Bibliography, index, maps in text.. Roberts; Kitchener; Buller; Botha; de Wet; de la Rey and Smuts. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: Goathair Press, 1974. pp [36], unpaged, stapled in black and white card covers. Copy for review with sheet laid in. Very small abrasion to upper outer corner of front cover, else fine. First book, a collection of poetry by this South Afican exile, who George Elliott Clarke reckons was the first Africa-born literary author to publish in Canada. Scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.

Toronto: Goathair Press, 1974. pp [36], unpaged, stapled in black and white card covers. Fine copy. First book, a collection of poetry by this South Afican exile, who George Elliott Clarke reckons was the first Africa-born literary author to publish in Canada. Scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.

London: Faber, 1931. First printing of the second edition, revised (first ed. in 1929). Red cloth. pp (4), 331 + folding map at rear; index. Light damp spotting to covers, 1932 ink gift inscription at front, page edges yellowed, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. A Boer War classic, reprinted many times.

London: Cape, 1962. Fourth printing (first was May, 1961). Light brown boards. Fine in fine jacket. Uncommon collection by the noted South African author.

London: Cape, 1983. Octavo, 178 pp. Dark blue boards. Ink gift inscription on front fly leaf; small tan spot to lower fore edges, fine, in fine, price-clipped jacket. The final novel in the Canopus in Argos sequence. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: Readers International, 1986. Blue boards. Text paper yellowed, as always, else fine. Dust jacket has faded spine, creased tear to upper inner corner of front panel, VG otherwise. Won the 1984 NOMA Award. South African author.

London & New York: Readers International, 1988. Black boards. Review copy with slip laid in. Text paper tanned, as always, else fine. Dust jacket has slight spine sunning, else fine. Short stories of Johanessburg's Indian community by this South Arican writer.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. Green cloth, green endpapers. pp (xxxviii), 398 + 20 plates on text paper; 13 figures and 2 maps in text. Bump to upper outer corners of covers, sunning to the green top page edges, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has small tears and very small tears, two inch split to rear flap fold, rubbing to foot of spine and flap folds; good or a bit better. The first volume in the Humanities. Research Center History of Science Series. Besides his astronomical observations at the Cape of Good Hope, the diaries contain personal matter, gossip, natural history, travel, politics, and more. Sir John was one of the founders of the astronomy of the Southern Hemisphere. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be requried.

London: William Clowes & Son, Printers, 1913. Original blue paper covers. pp (67) + one leaf (Recent Acquisitions, 1932) tipped in after p. 8 + numerous b&w plates. Spine hand-lettered "Max Michaelis Gallery", covers sunned at spine and marging; chips and tears at spine tips neatly repaired; front cover has tidy ink owner name at top, small chip and damp spot to lower outer corner; short tear to top margin of first leaf; a few ink annotations to the tipped-in leaf; corner crease and mild soiling to rear cover; in all, a good, clean copy, tight in the binding. The gallery was at The Old Town House, Cape Town.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1960. Octavo, 239 pp. Black boards. Light yellowing to page edges and front free endpaper, else fine, no owner names. Pale blue jacket has slight sunning to spine, with red portions turned to yellow; similar sunning to top of front panel; white rear panel lightly dust soiled, tanned; half inch edge tear to front panel; VG+ otherwise, with no chips or clips. Autobiographical writings covering her emigration from South Africa and her first few years in England. Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.