Biographies

Shakespeare : The World as a Stage


Book dealer’s price-sticker on the back of dust-jacket.

Sunflower to the Sun

Biography of Herman Charles Bosman. Ink inscription to the front fep. Text is clean and clear. Boards show slight wear. DW shows general wear, scuffing and small closed tears along the edges.

Taken at the Flood: The Story of Harry Struben

Small neat stamp on front endpapers. DW has sunned spine, chips at bottom and tear at top of spine, also general scuffing.

Terugblik van ‘n ‘Brugbower’

Signed by the author.

The Age of William III & Mary II, Power, Politics, and Patronage 1688-1702

A 416 page reference encyclopedia and exhibition catalogue. For an exhibition held at the Grolier Club and The Folger Shakespeare Library.

The Autobiography of Zola Budd

Signed by Zola Budd.

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.

The Dark Stream: The Story of Eugene N Marais

Stamp on front fep. Contains several black and white illustrations. Clean, clear text. Boards show slight wear, some soiling and slightly bumped corners.

The Diary of Iris Vaughan

Ink presentation inscription on front fep. Minor edge wear to boards and slight foxing on fore edges.

The First South African : The Life and Times of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick



Price stamping to the front fep. Previous owners name in pencil to the front fep. Boards show some wear, especially to the edges.

The First South African: The Life and Times of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Ink presentation inscription on front fep. DW slightly scuffed with small chips at top and bottom of spine.

The Flag-Wagger (With an Introduction By Elspeth Huxley)


Previous owner’s name in ink on half-title page. Map of Northern Rhodesia in front-end papers. Map of the Republic of Zambia in back-end papers. Cover shows small tears and chips to the edges and some fading.

The House of Cherer


Signed and inscribed by the aurhor. Sevaral black & white photographs and family diagrams inside. Cover torn at the tail and top of spine and front. Slight wear to edges of cover.

The House of Shaka : The Zulu Monarchy Illustrated

Black and white photographs throughout. Signed and dated by Charles Ballard on title page. Text is clean and clear. Boards show slight wear. DW with general wear, various small tears and scuffing.

The Life of John Xavier Merriman

Foxing to the fep and title page

The Lonely Sky


The Man Who Presumed: a Biography of Henry M Stanley

Bookplate pasted on front endpaper. Slight foxing on top fore edges of pages. DW has minor creasing at top and fading to spine.

The Marquis De Sade

Text is clean and clear with numerous black and white plates. Boards show little wear and some fading. DW is in very good condition with minimal wear and some chipping along the edges.

The Memoirs of Leonid Pasternak


Contains black & white and colour plates of selections from Pasternak’s works. Also contains some of his personal memoirs, translated from Russian to English by Jennifer Bradshaw. Previous bookdealer’s pricing and an inscription in fep.

The Milner Papers, South Africa 1897 - 1899, and 1899 - 1905. II Vols.

Very neat ex-library copies, with only a bookplate and library pocket to the feps. Cancelled stamp to pg.9 and shelf mark to the spine.