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A BREEZE FROM THE BACKVELD
Edition: First Edition
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.
Book ID: 20252More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
A MAN AND TWO WOMEN.
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 20665More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
A MAN AND TWO WOMEN
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 18716More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
A Vision of Order : A Study of Black South African Literature in English (1914-1980)
Edition: First Edition
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. 086300007X
Book ID: 38823More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
ADVENTURE...
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.
Book ID: 44490More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
AN ARTIST IN THE FAMILY
Edition: First Canadian issue
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.
Book ID: 35809More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Black People and the South African War 1899-1902 (African Studies)
Edition: First Edition
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 0521272246
Book ID: 44094More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
Boer War Generals
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. 0905778677
Book ID: 44521More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
BUSHMAN'S BREW
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 42040More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BUSHMAN'S BREW
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 42041More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
DEBBIE GO HOME. Stories.
London: Cape, 1962. Fourth printing (first was May, 1961). Light brown boards. Fine in fine jacket. Uncommon collection by the noted South African author.
Book ID: 8716More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENTAL AGENTS IN THE VOLYEN EMPIRE
Edition: First printing
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. 0224021303
Book ID: 39265More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
FOOLS and other stories
Edition: First US printing
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.
Book ID: 41444More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
HAJJI MUSA and the Hindu Fire-walker
Edition: First UK edition
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.
Book ID: 41453More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
HERSCHAL AT THE CAPE: diaries and reminscences of Sir John Herschel, 1834-1838
Edition: First printing
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. ; Octavo
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 39098More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
HILDA'S DIARY OF A CAPE HOUSEKEEPER. Second thousand
Book ID: 38550More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF FLEMISH AND DUTCH PAINTINGS. With Introduction and Biographical Notes by T. Martin Wood (cover title: The Max Michaelis Gift to the Union of South Africa)
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.; Quarto
Condition: Good
Book ID: 32521More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
IN PURSUIT OF THE ENGLISH. A Documentary.
Edition: First printing
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.
Book ID: 7480More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History, and the Native Tribes
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 50676More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
KING OF THE BASTARDS
Edition: First printing
London: Heinemann, 1950. x, 339, [3] pp. Burgundy cloth stamped in red. Glue remains on rear pastedown, very minor red rubber stamping on rear free endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has small chips at spine tips and flap corners, else very good, flap price intact. An historical novel of Coenraad Buys, set in late 18th century, early 19th century, South Africa.
Book ID: 20540More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96