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D'Ewes, Dudley : Mydorp : Portrait of a Platteland Boyhood

A.A. Balkema, 1954

jacket is worn, torn and taped. edge wear on boards. foxing and marks. some pages are also tape bound. annotations and notes in text. ownership stamp and some inscriptions. signed by author. fair binding and condition. [SK]. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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D'Ewes, Dudley : Mydorp: Portrait of a Platteland Boyhood

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1954)

Signed by the author on the title page. 8vo; original pale grey cloth, lettered in blue on spine and upper cover, with horse and carriage blocked in red to upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. 96; line drawings in text. Boards very slightly rubbed, with trace of spotting; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; a little foxing to endpapers, and occasionally elsewhere. Very good condition. Two newspaper clippings about the author are loosely inserted. 'Mr D'Ewes was born at Warrenton, on the Cape-Transvaal border, in 1905. He was the son of a diamond digger, and was orphaned at an early age, his parents having died within 24 hours of each other. As a boy he went to live with relatives who farmed at Faure, and he attended the Somerset West High School. He knew poverty and hardship in his youth, but his intellectual qualities were recognized at an early age, and he was sent first to the University of Cape Town where he gained an MA in classics in 1927, and then on to Oxford where, at Keble College, he acquired a BA Honours degree in theology. ... For many years, from 1936, he was correspondent at the Cape for The Times, London, and he wrote several books one of which "Mydorp: Portrait of a Platteland Boyhood" was on childhood memories of the diamond-digging area in which he spent his earliest years.' - From a loosely inserted obituary portrait of 26 June 1980, the day following the death of Dudley D'Ewes.

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