Archive for October, 2008

Caesar: ‘n Drama

Slight foxing at beginning and end pages of book. Back board scuffed and front board has crease.

Guide to the Garden Route

DW scuffed.

Hostilities Only

A survivor’s account of the sinking of the Cornwall and the Dorsetshire. Text clean and binding firm. Gift tag with inscription pasted to front fep. Apparent front panel of dw pasted to front fep. Bookplate of William Jardine pasted to front endpaper. Spi

Die Ambassadeur; Roman

First edition. Past owners’ names in ink on front endpaper. Slight marking to fore edges of pages. DW scuffed with chips top and bottom and adhesive tape on inside.

The Transvaal from Within: a Private Record of Public Affairs

Pages browned, some loose. Spine and edges of front board heavily marked by insects. Corners bumped.

News from Tartary : a Journey from Peking to Kashmir

Moisture damage to first few and final few pages of book.Otherwise text is clean and binding firm. Boards lightly scuffed and edge worn, spine has tear near top and frayed top and bottom.

Apartheid: a History

Some staining to fore edges of pages and scuffing of covers.

Die Malerin Faustina Iselin: Text Dorothea Christ


Women Expressionists


Marianne North at Kew Gardens


The Cape in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Being the Biography of Rudolf Siegfried Allemann

Text clean, binding a little loose. Past owner’s stamp on front fep. Endpapers browned. Boards marked especially near edges. Spine and title label marked and torn with pieces missing.