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BESKOW, Else : Hansie En Die Bessiekinders

J L Van Schaik,, Pretoria No Date (ca.1925)

An immaculate copy in the original pictorial cloth spined boards, in a vg++ externally fine d.w., which has been strengthened internally with clear tape, and then sheathed in heavy plastic attached internally by the same tape. An extremely scarce early Afrikaans children's book, even more so in d.w. The book, in small oblong 8vo format, contains 16 leaves each with a full page illustration containg the text. Elsa Beskow (née Maartman) (11 February 1874, Stockholm – 30 June 1953) was a Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender. Illustr.: Elsa Beskow

First Edition in Afrikaans