Ormond, RogerMareMagnum
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Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, browning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 229pp. A guide to South Africa's everyday racial policies.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to some corners. Slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped with very minor marks and small tears to upper and lower edges (longest two cm) and slightly sunned spine. Unpaginated. pp. An artist and a poet combined have reworked the drama of Shaka, mythical forger of the Zulu people in the rare and stunning medium of woodcuts with forty three full page mainly coloured plates with facing poetry plus notes.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small rub to lower edge of front end papers and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with repairs around spine foot, foxing, well-rubbed/nicked edges and small pieces missing from some corners. Unpaginated pp.
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with 12 fine engraved plates in monochrome by Keulemans, one or two short marginal tears in blank margins of a few leaves; attractively bound in navy blue cloth, navy blue calf back lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, beige endpapers (original yellow free endpapers preserved), a very good, bright, clean copy. Wanting (blank) pages 856-866 as usual. The first edition of Layard's standard monograph was first published in Cape Town in 1867. This second and best edition was prepared by Sharpe and dedicated by him to Layard. The superb plates by Keulemans (sometimes coloured by hand; uncoloured in the present copy) appear here for the first time. A lovely copy of a scarce and standard reference. Mendelssohn I, p.872; Tate p.203.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present) and 24 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), some mild spotting, neat signature on front free endpaper; original dark green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Published simultaneously with the A&C Black edition, but considerably scarcer. The work was produced by Juta to whom Black paid a commission on sales. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Inman 135.
Percaline de l'?diteur. 220 pages.
Together 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 7 maps in the text (a number folding and coloured in outline) and 27 maps (a number folding) in separate volume; navy cloth, upper boards framed and blocked in gilt enclosing regimental badge in gilt and colours, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine extended set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Hall. The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914 (1 vol., 1929); Ross-of-Bladensburg. The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918 (3 vols., 1928). The standard history of the regiment from the conclusion of the Egyptian Campaign to the end of the Great War. First and Second Battalions served in the Boer War. In the Great War the regiment fielded three battalions , all of which went to France and remained there throughout the conflict. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS AN EXTENDED SET IN THIS CONDITION. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe, p.6; White p.43.
Samson Low, 1885. In-8 relié pleine percaline grise éditeur de XX + 372 + 29 pages. From the "great trek" to the convention of London. With appendix comprising ministerial declarations of policy and official documents. Cartes dépliantes.Mouillure en partie inférieure ayant décoloré la percaline, légères rousseurs, néanmoins le corps de l'ouvrage est en bon état .
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower rear corner and arching to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright very faintly marked boards, tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. 265pp. The resettlement during the South African apartheid time of 1,000,000 black people into Bantu 'homelands' which resulted in immense human suffering, poverty and starvation is here described by a Franciscan priest.
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning mainly to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with fading to spine, minor creasing to upper edge and traces of storage. 321pp. This study covers four African cases of share contracts, in Ghana, Sudan, Lesotho and Senegambia.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, 4 illustrations and maps in the text, and folding map, preliminaries lightly foxed; original khaki cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lattered in gilt and black, gilt top, red endpapers, uncut, joints mildly rubbed, some mild age-soiling else a very good, bright, clean copy. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry served as 20th Company Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa from April 1900 to June 1901. They were commanded variously by Hunter, Hutton, Clements and Cunningham. In December 1900 the 20th was attacked at Nooitgedacht where the British sustained heavy casualties and the Fifes were reduced to half strength. The remnants joined Cunningham's force to the end of January 1901 and were then attached to Col. Benson's column in south western Transvaal. In April 1901 the Fifes regrouped at full strength at Bloemfontein, joining Col. Pilcher's column in Orange River Colony and returning home in May 1901.The work includes a nominal roll and campaign history. VERY SCARCE. Hackett, p.190 (see also p.ix for coloured plate of cover and lengthy assessment); White, .p.176.
4to., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 3 maps (2 folding); green cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. The hardback edition is very scarce.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering and embossing to front and spine. 340pp. Detailed study of the story of the South African gold fields. Illustrated.
Softback with dust jacket. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper rear edge. 215pp. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, the story follows a young doctor who arrives at his rural hospital posting and his involvement with the hospital staff and a group of soldiers. Described as an unsettling story which you can't put down.
459p. Numerous illustrations, photographs and maps many in color. Large folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Very nice copy. A valuable encyclopedia of wine-making regions and ove r 6500 wines. WHISKEY 1
xxii + 354pp.richly illustrated + 12 plates in colour, hardcover (editor's cloth), illustrated dustwrapper, 29cm., very good condition, C80151
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, 28 monochrome plates on 22 and folding coloured map; original regimental cloth in blue and red, title and regiment badge blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, gilt top, black endpapers, covers mildly age-soiled else very good, bright, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED OCTOBER 1914 ON HALF-TITLE. The author and the recipient served together in the Birmingham National Reserve and Recruiting Office. Includes three coloured plates of uniforms and two of medals. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.54; White, p.218.
26 cm, rilegatura editoriale, titolo in oro al dorso, sovracoperta illustrata; pp. xi, 275, numerose carte geografiche ripiegate fuori testo, bruniture
Features: The Algerian Rebellion; The Abortive Invasion of Cuba; The Empress of Canada; The Education of Commonwealth Youth - Hilton College, South Africa; Lovely colour advertisement for the Humber Super Snipe; Colour Advertisement for State Express 555 Cigarettes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Numbered pages run from 481 to 520. Lots of photographs and nice advertisements, covering wraps in colour. Staple bound. Slight wear to edges.
Middelburg - Rotterdam, Firma G.W. Den Boer, 1938, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. XV, [1], 246. Con una cartina ripiegata in fine.
Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean tight pages with dusty very slightly marked slightly bumped boards, a little foxing and with rubbing to ends of sunned spine. Three fold-out maps in very good condition. 163pp. A study of the Kalahari Scheme designed to bring irrigation and drinking water back to the region where lakes and rivers are slowly drying up. Undated but 1919 is mentioned in the text as the latest drought data.
The original 1983 First Edition. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages, signs of storage and no bumping to corners. 278pp. The history of the Pedi, less well known but of similar imprtance to the Zulus according Transvaal Africans, who were also bludgeoned into submission by the British in the 1870s.
8vo., with frontispiece, top faintly spotted; maroon cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1903. Hackett, p.142 (recording the first edition).
Pp. 39, 8 photos, refs. Orig. wrs.
