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Imprint: New York, Phelps-Stokes, 1948 Signed by Channing Tobias, Director of the Phelps-Stokes fund, and Frederick Rowe, Executive secretary. 219p. Boards and spine are damaged.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000679.
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Edition: First Edition
78p. Original black cloth binding with gilt lettering. Drawings by Philip Bawcombe. Illustrated endpapers. Commemorative volume celebrating 150 years of the town.53 paintings. Clean copy.. Illustr.: Philip Bawcombe. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001044.
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Imprint: London, Oxford University Press, 1971 229p. Dust jacket is edgeworn with some tears. Previous owner's name on ffep. Covers marriage laws in Africa, customary marriage, mohammedan and statutory marriage.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Good Stock number: 001185.
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Imprint: Howick, Khenty Press, 1977 184p. Ills. Previous owner's name on rear endpaper and one of the first few pages. Dust jacket has a few closed tears and is slightly worn around the edges. Crease along front lower edge. Sticker on ffep.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001206.
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Imprint: Cape Town, Struik Publishers, 1989 Text by Warwick Turboton. 228p. Colour photographs. Appendix with behavioural and biological data. Insription on front paste-down. Some foxing to end pages. Blue cloth boards, with small mark on front, where dust jacket had stuck to board.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001084.
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Imprint: Johannesburg, Quagga Press, 1975 Introduction by Tim Couzens, woodcuts and cover by Cecil Skotnes. Originally published in 1930 by Lovedale Press, this the first in a series of republications. Mhudi was the first novel in English by a black African, and covers the tribal upheaval of the 1830's. Slight shelf wear to upper spine. Clean copy.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000917.
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Imprint: Cape Town, Simondium, 1964 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed and signed by Ian Player, dated 1973Classic on the first journey down the Umsindusi river in Natal, the forming of the Natal Canoe Club and the beginning of the famous Maritzburg to Durban canoe marathon. 147p. Contains b/w photographs and fold-out map. Dust jacket is slightly worn around the edges with some foxing on back cover.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000584.
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Imprint: London: Constable, 1954 Fair/No Jacket. First Edition. A journey to the rock churches of Ethiopia, including 15 drawings, 6 colour plates and 7 photgraphs by the author. Frontis, ills, 195p. Slight foxing throughout and dust jacket is missing. Stock number: 000101.
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Imprint: Johannesburg, Delta Books, 1980 128p. Black and white photographs throughout. This book examines the history and origins of the Arab horse, its inspirational qualities and its influence on other breeds. Dust jacket has some chips on spine, and slight wear to extremities.. Illustr.: Karl De Haan. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000945.
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Imprint: London: George Allen, 1906 Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Fascinating account of India's maharajahs and palaces. Contains 165 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. 453p. Green cloth cover with camel illustration, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Rubbed around the edges. Collector's item. Stock number: 000463.
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Imprint: London, Faber & Faber, 1988 Edited and with an introduction by Felix Pryor. Unique anthology of famous letters. 319p.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 000728.
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Imprint: Alberton, Galago Publishing, 1986 384p. 89 photographs, 4 maps. Inscription to previous owner on ffep. Paper has been worn in one place on ffep. Dust jacket was taped to book. Cloth is slightly worn along lower edge.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001170.
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Imprint: Ahmedabad, Navajivan Publishing House, 1986 A biography of Mahatma Gandhi by one of his disciples. Traces Gandhi's life from childhood till his visit from South Africa to India in 1896. 854p. Contains 31 pages of illustrations.. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000387.
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Imprint: Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1968 182p. 22 maps, 16 of which are in colour, 49 monochrome plates, photographs and 4 colour plates. Contains chapters on Lobengula, the Matabele war, the Matopo campaign, and Mzilikazi. Dust jacket is slightly worn along head and foot of spine. Clean copy.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000942.
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Imprint: Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, 1980 Chronicle of family life on a farm in Natal. Contains delicate and detailed watercolour paintings of the flora and fauna of the area. 205p. Dust jacket is worn around the edges. Repaired tear to front cover. Previous owner's name and inscription on ffep.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000750.
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Imprint: Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1966 Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Reference book on cacti in Southern Africa. Contains 98 colour illustrations and 228 black and white illustrations. Stock number: 000059.
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Imprint: London, Thames and Hudson, 1956 With a foreword by Wilfrid Noyce. 158p. 69 ills, 8 in colour. Dust jacket is edgeworn and torn in places, with paper loss at head of spine. Some foxing thoughout. First hand account of many of the author's own ascents, including the Annapurna expedition of 1948.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Good Stock number: 001186.
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson & Co., 1892 xi, 612p, frontispiece portraits. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Uncut pages. Ex-libris bookplate of J. Jeppe (mining magnate) on ffep of both vols. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Some foxing throughout. A biography of Sir George Grey, who held the position of Governor of the Cape Colony, New Zealand, and South Australia.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001153.
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1974 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Revised edition of this beautiful photographic exploration of Kenya. Designed with Barney Wan. Mirella Ricciardi was born and grew up in Kenya, and as a result has a unique passion for the country. The majority of the book is given to black and white photographs, with 40 pages of text. 87p. Slight spotting to end pages.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000364.
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Imprint: Johannesburg, Macmillan, 1982 249p. Head and foot of spine are slightly bumped. Otherwise, a tight, clean copy. Over 600 species are covered in detail, and most are accompanied by illustrations in full colour. 46 colour plates.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 001031.
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Imprint: London, Michael Joseph, 2000 With Bob Harris. 290p. Colour and b/w photographs. Signed by Viv Richards on title page. Minor spotting on edges. Autobiography of one of the world's most exciting batsmen.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 001118.
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Imprint: Basel, Holbein-Verlag, 1956 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Foreword and edited by John Richardson. Text in German. Contains 32 watercolours and oil paintings. Some foxing to initial and final endpapers. Dust jacket is worn around edges, with piece missing from spine, and tear on bottom right corner.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Good Stock number: 000646.
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Imprint: Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1951 Volume 4 of Natal Regional Survey. Covers the early history of trade unions in Natal, up to 1948. 111p. Dust jacket is rubbed around the edges. Scarce.. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000658.
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Imprint: Hong Kong, Prism, 1989 1889-1989. 106p. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Dust jacket is very slightly worn on top edge. Slight foxing to initial pages. Formed 100 years ago, the golf club has grown into one of the largest and most famous golf clubs in the world.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 001006.
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Imprint: Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1973 Together with her journal of a tour into the interior from Cape Town to beyond Swellendam. With 100 illustrations and a panorama of Cape Town. 303p. Ex-libris bookplate on ffep. Very minor wear to upper edges, otherwise a clean copy.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001190.
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1979 337p. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and Lowry's paintings. Foreword by Sir John Rothenstein. Comprehensive biography of Lowry, exploring the painter and the man. Corners are slightly bumped on dust jacket, and rubbed along top edge of spine and back cover.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000867.
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Imprint: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983 543p. Covers all aspects of the pure sciences and every major scientific civilisation from ancient China to the present. 300 photographs. Chapters include Arabian, Hindu and Indian science. Fine condition.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 000897.
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Imprint: London, Business F1 Books, 2004 602p. Illustrated with photographs. This book covers the life of Ayrton Senna, the greatest racing driver the world has ever seen. The author examines each detail of the driver's life, from the early days to his tragic death in 1994. Half-title page has been clipped.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 000927.
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Imprint: New York, Viking, 1987 171p. First American edition. Very clean copy, not price-clipped. Black cloth boards. Rushdie's haunting portrait of the people, politics, land and poetry of Nicaragua.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001111.
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Imprint: New York, John B. Alden, 1885 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes in one of Ruskin's work on the architecture of Venice. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated throughout. 396p. Ex-library stickers on front endpapers. Spine is worn and slightly torn at top and bottom edge.. Ex-Library. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000396.
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Imprint: London, The Bodley Head, 1953 138p. Bertrand Russell's first work of fiction, written at the age of eighty. Dust jacket has very small tear on spine. Otherwise, very clean copy. Dust jacket has not been price-clipped.. Illustr.: Scott, Asgeir. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000921.
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Imprint: London/Johannesburg, The Faith Press/Drum Publications, 1958 Anthology of writing from the African continent, including Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, as well as unknown storyrtellers from Ethiopia, Zanzibar and Madagascar. 208p. Dust jacket is torn and worn around the edges.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000719.
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Imprint: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947 Cloth. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Based on a study of black South Africans at a Johannesburg mental hospital. 324p. Good, clean copy. We also have a first UK edition of Black Hamlet by the same author. Stock number: 000431.
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Imprint: Johannesburg, The Dial Press, 1961 218p. A study of the political situation in South Africa, together with interviews of leading personalities. They include Nadine Gordimer, Alan Paton, the Hon. H. Fagan, and Dr Jan Steyler, leader of the Progressive Party. A section is also devoted to those involved in the struggle, including Sidney Bunting, and Clements Kadali, founder of the African Trade Union Movement, the I.C.U. Slightly foxed. Previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper. Dust jacket has small piece missing on lower back cover, and is rubbed around the top edges.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Good Stock number: 000793.
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Imprint: Natal, Marianhill Mission Press 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. Limited to 1000 copies, this is no. 289. Written by the sister of the well-know Zulu historian, R.C.Samuelson. 197p. Illustrated throughout. Dust jacket is rubbed around the edges. Collector's item.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Fair Stock number: 000619.
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Imprint: Calcutta, Illustrated News 162p. Decorative paper boards, slightly browned. Otherwise a clean copy. Covers the history of Indian cricket.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001004.
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Imprint: Cape Town, Howard B. Timmins, 1965 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 69p. Limited/numbered edition, no.37 of 100. Signed by Phyllis Savory. Foreword by Killie Campbell. 28 plates. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket is worn around the edges, with small tear on upper rear cover, general rubbing to edges. Crack along the length of the spine. Collector's item.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001009.
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Imprint: CapeTown: Maskew Miller Limited, 1959 Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. An account of the Bantu's origins, habitat, ethnic history, social organisation, religion and magic, literature and language. Stock number: 000004.
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Imprint: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967 312p. 12 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on title page. ffep is slightly damaged. General wear to edges, with small tear on spine. Otherwise a clean copy. Contains chapters on European influence on Bantu language and music, social and economic conditions, native administration, and religion.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001003.
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Imprint: New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Anton Rupert. Encompassing 100 years, from Rodin to the Op and Kinetic art of the Sixties. Each section of the book is written by an authority in that partic ular field, and the text is accompanied by beautiful colour plates. 224p. 156 ills. in colour. Stock number: 000172.
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Imprint: London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953 Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a story of the forgotten heroes of Antarctic exploration, men from Australia and New Zealand. Retold by the author, who served on Heard Island. 226p. Contains 17 ills. plus 3 maps. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed around corners, otherwise in fine condition. Stock number: 000554.
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Imprint: New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edited, annotated and introduced by Bonnie Kime Scott. 497p. This collection was drawn from the ten thousand or so letters that Rebecca West wrote during her life. They include correspondence with her lover, H.G.Wells, as well as George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Noel Coward and J.B.Priestley, among others. Clean copy.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 000790.
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Imprint: Pietermaritzburg, Shuter and Shooter, 1971 136p. Frontispiece map, ills with b/w photographs. Signed by the author to previous owner on ffep. Original pictorial boards, paperback stiff boards. A personal and social history of the Karkloof area of Natal including Merchiston School and Hilton College.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Pictorial Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001098.
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971 Segal examines the relevance of class struggle to social conflict, and offers a model for the creative society. 195p. Price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket is rubbed around the edges.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000724.
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Imprint: London, George Allen & Unwin, 1971 232p. 58 ills. Slight water damage to some pages to rear of book. Written mainly from eye-witness accounts, this book describes the conflicts between native tribes of South Africa, and between Zulus and Boers.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001134.
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Imprint: London, Pall Mall Press, 1964 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First english edition of essays written by the poet-president of Senegal. He examines the problems which Senegal, and newly independent Africa face in adjusting to participation in the modern world. Translated and with an introduction by Mercer Cook. 173p.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 000618.
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. n.d. Spine hinges are weak. 142p. Contains 40 colour plates with tissue paper. Slight foxing throughout and to fore-edge. Ex-libris sticker on front paste-down endpaper. Gilt decoration on front board and spine. Some marks on front board. Previous owner's name on ffep.. Illustr.: Thomson, Hugh. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Decorative Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000817.
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Imprint: London, Jonathan Cape, 1969 Introduction by Yehudi Menuhin. Previous owner's stamp on ffep and front and rear paste-down. A few small insect holes, slightly worse in the last few pages. Dust jacket has some wear to edges.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001038.
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Imprint: Cape Town, Purnell, 1976 Story of the successful defence of Ladysmith by a small garrison of the Gordon Highlanders. 164p. Dust jacket has small tear on front and back cover.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000710.
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Imprint: Cape Town, Purnell, 1975 164p. Profusely illustrated throughout with sketches and photographs. David Shepherd is regarded by many as being the world's leading wildlife artist. This book details the artist's life and work in detail. Tight, clean copy.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000837.
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