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Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous plates and illustrations; boards, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstrip.
247p. Very XLib. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Very worn copy. First American edition. AFRICA/1
Reliure toile de l'?diteur. 228 pages.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 11 plates (5 large and folding) in monochrome, and 13 illustrations in the text, black endpapers, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; original cloth, sides with double frame border enclosing corps badge elaborately blocked all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, a very good, bright, firm copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). This copy was formerly in the library of Conwyn Mansel-Jones who won the Victoria Cross in South Africa on 27 February 1900. He went on to serve in WWI and was also awarded the DSO and the Legion d'Honneur. Mansel-Jones became CMG and was a member of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1920 until his death in 1942. A letter confirming his purchase of this copy is loosely inserted. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT UNIT HISTORY. White, p.255.
Features: Sacrificing Freud - The psychiatric priesthood - itself torn between Catholics and Protestants - hastens the nightmare of a society run by doctors; Is Ronald Reagan a Peach-Pit Conservative or Closet Moderate? - The struggle in New Hampshire tests his belief that he's the natural heir to the G.O.P. nomination - with photos of Reagan in his youth; Kids With Kids - more and more white, middle-class, teen-age girls are having babies out of wedlock - and keeping them; The Moneyweight Champion - The investments of Morgan Guaranty Trust, largest institution of them all, account for huge chunks of stock trading volume - is their market influence benign?; Jean-Pierre Rampal - The Most Magic Flute; A Professional Guide to Watching Tennis - by Arthur Ashe (then the world's top-ranked tennis player); Multi-page informational ad entitled "Why So Many Invest in South Africa"; Two-page color-photo tourism ad for South Africa; Fashion photos of aprons; Maximal Minima - photos of the design of the tiny NYC co-op of Peter Benchley and his wife; Photos of Marilyn Neerman's high-rise, midtown studio design; Lobster recipes; Hats - article by Raymond A. Sokolov. 88 pages. . Generously illustrated with black and white photos. Wonderful photo fashion ads, some in color. Faint school stamp on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents or covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Very slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with sunning to spine and slight rubbing to edges. 584pp. Detailed study of South Africa's history since the discovery of diamonds in Griqualand West covering the three great social complexes of modern South Africa, the involvement of major political forces and the changing relationship between the country and the rest of the world.
8vo., with a tinted frontispiece, facsimile title, 11 plates (7 tinted), a folding map, two pedigrees (one folding and one double-page) and 2 tables (one folding and one full-page), small neat signature on front free endpaper; decorative cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES. High quality facsimile of the scarce original edition of 1866.
LONDON, Philip ALLAN & CO., LTD. -353 pages - 1928 - Broché, Nombreuses photographies N & B. Etat neuf.
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and additional full-page map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. African Hunting Reprint Series, vol. 3. High-quality facsimile reissue of the edition of 1916.
Previous owner's name/label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Small creases to cover corners, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 276pp. Concentrating mainly of the years between 1870 and 1913, this study analyses how African agriculturalists responded to economic pressures and opportunities and goes on to show that response was inhibited and crushed by the intervention of politically more powerful groups, in particular white farmers and urban employers.
Inscription from the author on front end paper. No other marks to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 425pp. This study traces debate about environmental degradation in successive eras of South African history and offers a reinterpretation of South Africa's economic development, and of aspects of the Cape colonial and South African states.
Leiden, A. W. Sijthoff, 1970, in-8, brossura editoriale verde con titolo in oro al dorso, pp. 210. Perfette condizioni: in stato di nuovo.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded and chafed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Hackett, p.144.
First edition, 4to, xvi, 84pp., 16 photographic plates, orig. blue cloth.
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Much-needed reissue of the original classic of 1936. Hosken, p.118 (recording the first edition).
Sm. folio, First Edition, with coloured frontspiece and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Reliure ?diteur. 220 pages et 30 pages de photos. Jaquette.
Tiny name/date inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Clean very tight pages with slightly unevenly sunned boards, foxing to covers, end pages and page edges and no bumping to corners. 200pp. 'Values and ideals of a multi-racial society'. The book explains the concept of apartheid and how it being established. Photographs.
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, trace of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 190pp. Nontetha had a series of visions in 1918 in South Africa's eastern Cape when the influenza epidemic was sweeping the world. Her preaching that this was a punishment of God and that she must lead her people to reform their ways caused the government to commit her to a mental asylum. Sixty years later the author and historian learnt of her fate and arranged for her body to be transferred from a pauper's grave to her home village.
In-8° pp. 264 con 8 tav. f. t. e 8 piante n.t. lef. edit. con sovrac.
xii + 197pp., 25cm., publisher's hardcover in blue cloth (bit discoloured), in the series "Oekumenische Studien" volume 8, text in English, C107867
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; purple boards, backstrip lettered in white, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper very lightly chafed at edges. SCARCE.
283 p. 8vo. 23 cm. Original blue cloth biding, lettered in gold, with a decorative Greek key border in black. Slightly worn at head and tail. The author was a newspaperman and the editor of the Salt L ake City Tribune. His style is a curious blend of the journalistic with the romantic. The scenes move easily between the Comstock Lode, England, and the mines of South Africa. The Comstock Lode was the group of celebrated silver and gold mines near Virginia City, Nevada. Between 1859-1870 it yielded well over 300 million tons of valuable ore. The profits made from the Lode accounted for much of the economic growth of the West in the late 19th century. Wright, American Fiction III (1876-1900), 2206. "The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man" -- Samuel Johnson (1749). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W148
110p. + Plus color illustrations by Francois Krige. Photographs by Terence McNally. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket with small ink mark on front cover. Bookplate. WHISKEY 1
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Devil-Stones - A strange story of West African "fetish" and its uncanny powers among the superstition-ridden natives; Too Many Bears - Experiences of a camp cook in Yosemite National Park, where bears are as plentiful as berries, and astonishingly bold - with great photos; Through the Guadalupe Wilderness - Photo-illustrated account by Carl B. Livingston of his exploratory trip into the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, perhaps the most inaccessible and least-known region in the United States; The Last Voyage of the "Joan" - W.E. Sinclair and a partner attempt to cross the Atlantic from England to Newfoundland - until disaster strikes in mid-ocean; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part I - After two years of preparation living in a Himalayan cave, Alexandra David-Neel sets out to become the first white woman to enter Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet - with photos; The Mare's Nest - an amusing photo-illustrated story from an Australian back-blocks medical practice; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part II - Two city-bred sisters continue their homesteading adventures in South Dakota; Eskimo Magic - E.W. Hawkes, who has spent considerable time among the Eskimos of the Bering Strait, recounts several uncanny instances of "native magic"; His Highness The White Elephant - Photo-illustrated article on this animal which is held in the utmost veneration in Siam; In Quest of Gold - Part III - Final part of the adventure faced by two young Americans seeking buried gold who were forced to turn back by the Savage Yaqui Indians; The Robbery At the Mine - Sundry exciting happenings at a gold mine in West Australia where the author worked; His Last Break - An unsuccessful prison escape attempt in South Africa; The Worm That Turned - A tale from Calcutta where a European official did not recognize one of his staff. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book