Archive for December, 2009

Die Boer Se Roer Die Groot Geweerboek Van Suid-Afrika

Number 1148 of 2000 copies. Edge wear to the dw and a small piece missing from the rear panel.

Albrecht Durer

Very well illustrated. Text in German.

Cold Stone Jug

Shelf wear to top and bottom of dw spine with slight browning to pages.

M.E.R. 100


Season of Migration to the South, Africa’s Crises Reconsidered


Stage Makeup


Stage Makeup


The Best of South African Short Stories

Slight fading to boards.

Paper Pools


Theatrical Makeup

with two original photographs  on fep.

The Art of Doing: Stage Make-up, Stage Make-up Techniques

Pencil Marginalia on some text and tape marks on feps.

The Complete Gardening Book

With some pen and pencil marginalia.

Supernature, A Natural History of the Supernatural


Scheepsjournael Ende Daghregister

Tape markings on fep’s

The Hotazel Years

Includes an introduction by Denis Beckett. This book will incur extra postage. Photography of Obie Oberholzer.

South West

Numerous colour photographs of Namibia.

The Terror Fighters, A Profile of Guerrilla Warfare in Southern Africa

Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine of dw.

Glorious Gospel Triumphs as seen in My Life and Work in Fiji and Australasia

Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine with slight fading to boards.

The Laws and Customs of the Bapedi and Cognate Tribes of the Transvaal

Red cloth cover, with wear to edges and various stainings. Previous owners inscription to free end paper. Very good firm copy.

Mauritius and Its Dependencies the Seychelles: Treasures of the Indian Ocean

With slip cover. Survey of the history, culture, politics of the islands. Dust jacket, slip cover and paperboards, show wear to edges. Very good firm copy, with black and white photographs.

Union of South Africa 1947

Dust jacket has discolouration, and small losses. Signed by the press retinue. An itinerary for the Royal visit to South Africa Febuary- April 1947.

Mapungubwe Ancient Bantu Civilization on the Limpopo

Reports on Excavations at Maqpungubwe (Northern Traansvaal) from February 1933 to June 1935. Dust jacket is well worn with staining.

The exploitation of East Africa 1856-1890: The Slave Trade and the Scramble

Dust jacket is well worn with loss to the spine, and discolouration. Foxing to end papers. Good firm copy of this interesting account of slavery in Africa

Where Men Still Dream

Dust jacket has chipping to edges. Good firm copy with some discolouration.

Penroses Pictorial Annual

The process yearbook 1911-1912. A guide for those in the graphics , printing, publishing industry. Green cloth cover, corners bumped. Stamped in gilt lettering on front cover this book has been printed and bound yearly for the past sixteen years by Percy Lund