All Books

‘n Eeu Van Vervoer 1860 - 1960. Die Prestasies Van Die Ministerie Van Vervoer Van Die Unie Van Suid-Africa

‘n Gids tot Kaaps-Hollandse Huise

Struik 1987. No dust jacket. Cover slightly worn. Text pages in good condition.

‘n Kabel Van Diens

Die verhaal van die Oostelike Transvaalse Kooperasie Beperk, 1923-1973.

… And Nothing But the Truth

Introduction by Francois Pienaar. Biography of Hansie Cronje.

… And So They Talked

Past owner’s name on front endpaper. A neat copy of these fascinating interviews with people like Field-Marshall Montgomery, Pierre Balmain, Igor Stravinsky, Mimi Coertse, Gary Player, Phillip Tobias, John Creasey, Yousuf Karsh, etc.

1652 and So Forth

Numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Text is clean and clear. Slight water damage to front board and front of DW and the fore edges of the first few pages. Boards show some wear along the edges. DW shows significant wear, scuffing, chipping and a closed tear to the back with some losses to the top of spine area..

18-44

Dust jacket in good condition. Text in Afrikaans.

300 Years of Cape Wine

Previous owner’s name in ink to front fep. Text is clean and clear. Boards are in good condition but corners and bottom of spine is bumped. DW has, scuffing, slight soiling, wear along the edges and a small closed tear to the back.

300 Years of Cape Wine

Facsimile edition of original text with addition of photographs and a biography of C Louis Leipoldt by WEG Louw. Text clean clear. Inscription in ink on the front fep. Endpapers show tape marks. Boards show little wear other than bumped corners. DW shows little wear.

50 Years Michaelis School of Fine Art

Catalogue of exhibition held in 1970s to commemorate 50th anniversary of Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Back cover scuffed.

650 Cookery Recipes from Hilda’s ‘WHERE IS IT?’ and ‘Hilda’s ‘DIARY OF A CAPE HOUSEKEEPER’

Introduction dated 1951. Stain to the endpapers, title page and ‘Introduction’ page. Pages are age toned and shows slight random soiling. Previous owner’s name in pencil to half title page. Previous bookseller’s label to the front endpapers. Binding is shaken. Boards show slight soiling and significant wear and tearing and fraying to the spine edges.

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.

A Bard in the Backveld, Verse and Worse

Fep. glued down with slight fading to jacket cover.

A Bash in the Tunnel: James Joyce By the Irish

Edited by John Ryan.

A Beginner’s Guide to South African Shells

Binding shaken, but intact.

A Bekkersdal Marathon

A clean inviting copy.

A Bibliography of Alfred Edward Housman

Ex-Library.

A Bibliography of the Rhinoceros: An Analysis of the Literature on the Recent Rhinoceroses in Culture, History and Biology

DW has two small closed tears at top and bottom edges; slight marking.

A Botanist in Southern Africa

Binding shaky; boards heavily scuffed, edges of spine frayed and torn, corners frayed and bumped. Additional notes by other authors have been taped into book. Split between frontispiece and title page has been repaired with adhesive tape. A few light pencil markings in text.

A Burnt-Out Case

Dust jacket has some wear and chipping to edges. Previous owner’s inscription to free end paper. Set in a leper colony in the Congo.

A Business of National Importance : The Royal Mail Shipping Group, 1902-1937


A Cape Childhood

Book has slight wear to edges and corners of boards. DW has small chips and creases to top and bottom edges, and scuffing to folds. Top edge of dw spine repaired on inside with pasted on paper.

A Cape Country Chronicle

Clean text and crisp binding. DW has light creasing on front panel.

A Cape Traveller’s Diary, 1856

Introduction and Annotations by Phyllis Lewsen. Assisted by The Staff of the University of the Witwatersrand Library, Johannesburg. With numerous black and white illustrations, done by the author himself. This is a crisp, clear copy with very little wear.

A Cask of Jerepigo


Library stamp in fep. Dust jacket significantly worn with tears to top and tail of DJ’s spine.