Archive for December, 2009

Rhodesia of To-day : A Description of the Present Condition and the Prospects of Matableland and Mashonaland

Bookplate to P H Normand, Ex Jameson raid and later Anglo Boer war (officer of the Imperial Light Horse ) who was later wounded at the battle of Elandslaagte. Green cloth cover with some scuff marks. Minor Foxing throughout.

Nordiska Dragter / Costumes Nationaux Scandinaves

Text in French and Swedish. Scandanavian National costumes 14 chromo plates. decorative and illustrated cover is worn on edge with small peice (coin sized) missing in right hand edge.

Svensk Adelskalender for Ar 1899

Text in Swedish. Red cloth cover with gilt title. Spine is sunned. Marble endpapers. Good firm copy

Memories

Green card cover is worn with small losses to the spine and some scuff marks. Previous owners inscription and foxing to free endpapers. Memoirs of a family dog

From Zia with Love

Dust jacket is worn with scuff marks and sunning to the spine, and minor tearing and creasing to edges. Slight foxing to endpapers. Wole Soyinka was nobel Laureate for literature in 1986. A play based on an event in Nigeria in 1984

The Golden Fleece

Dust jacket in poor condition with some losses to the spine and edges and creasing. Bound inblue cloth with lettering on spine stamped in gilt, spine is sunned , where dust jacket has part missing. Slight foxing to endpapers and fore-edge. Map endpapers. A historical novel of the legendary voyage of Jason and the Argonauts for the recovery of the Golden Fleece.

History of Arbroath

“notices of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the neighbouring district “” Leather and gilt cover “

Hunter

Red cloth cover, worn on edges with some staining to back and spine. Spine is sunned. An interesting account of work done for the Kenya game department . Black and white photographs. Minor foxing through out. Previous owners inscription in pen on free end paper.

A Arte Em Mozambique: Art in Mozambique

Inscribed by the author to Admiral Bierrmann of the South African Navy July 1967.Text in Portuguese and English. Light sunning to the covers. Illustrated lavishly in color and black & white.

Tones and Textures

Photopoetry of Namibia, with prose by Dorian Haarhoff. Subscribers volume number 948 of 1100. In slip case. Slipcase is scuffed, with small Hirt and Carter logo.

Henry Moore Sculptor

An appreciation by Herbert Read, with 36 plates. Dust jacket is worn

Airs Waters Places: Cape Town

12 signed lithographs. The book is no 12 of a limited edition of 50 copies. Inscribed to Gerald and Nancy. Watercolours of Cape Town. Slight scuff marks spine. Large cream paper boards.

Wog Mappe Der Art: Eine Sinfonie in Light Und Shatten

Manass? Fotoliteratur Wog, Folder I, The Nude. A Symphony in Light and Shadow, 12 plates in copper intaglio print with ill. after photographs, orig. brochure, Oswald Arnold Pub. Berlin 1941. Text in German.Yellow card cover is well worn and loose .

Major Rock Paintings of Southern Africa

Facsimile reproductions by R Townley Johnson.Edited by Tim Maggs. Dust jacket has minor edge wear. Good firm copy.

Sketch of the Flora of South Africa

Limp covers in firm condition displaying wear and staining, with an inscription to J.H. De Villiers, first Chief Justice of South Africa, inscribed by the author on the top edge. Booklet has been folded down the middle. Off-print from the ‘Official Handbook of the Cape of Good Hope’

In Search of V.O.C. Glass

No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers in firm condition displaying discolouration, staining and minor wear, with a sunned and edge worn spine. No publication date indicated, although Foreword. dated 1951. Previous owner’s details inscribed on front endpaper.

Les Trois Etablissements Humains

“Limp covers in firm condition displaying some discolouration, staining and wear. Small tears to spine edges. Library sticker pasted on inside front cover. Price label on outside back cover. Une civilisation du travail. Urbanisme des ciam. Collection ASCORAL dirigee par Le Corbusier. Sections 5a et 5b. 7 volume.”" “”"

La Charte De L’urbanisme

“Limp covers in poor condition displaying stains, wear and loses to the front top edge and bottom of spine. Ownership stamp on last page of book. Etudes de synthese et de documentation. L’actualite technique”". “”"

L’urbanisme Ou La Vie Heureuse

Limp covers in poor condition, with loses to the spine and the entire back cover missing. Library ownership label pasted to title page.

Bibby Line: 175 Years of Achievement

No dust jacket. Red cloth covers, front cover illustrated with ship profiles, good clean condition but slightly crushed on lower spine edge.