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.
All Books
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 Cask of Jerepigo
Library stamp in fep. Dust jacket significantly worn with tears to top and tail of DJ’s spine.
A Cask of Jerepigo: Sketches and Essays
Firm clean copy. Newspaper review of 1958 pasted onto back fep. DW has minimal wear to top and bottom edges.
A Cask of Jerepigo: Sketches and Essays
Firm clean copy.
A Census of Finnegan’s Wake
Slight wear to edges of dust jacket.
A Century of Sea Trading, 1824-1924 : The General Steam Navigation Company Limited
No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers showing wear with spine discoloured and worn on edges.
A Century of South African Short Stories
Corners bumped.
A Collector’s History of English Pottery
Price clipped. Dust jacket in very good condition.
A Comparative Study in Shona Phonetics
Neat clean copy. All maps and tables intact. Base of spine folded; top front edge of cover bumped. Back and front feps slightly discoloured; front endpapers cracked at hinge.
A Compleat History of the Late Rebellion.
A contemporary account of the Jacobite rebellion and probably the first book ever written on the subject. With a 6 page dedication to the Duke of Argyle and 173 pp text.Pages 161 - 166 omitted in the pagination but text and register are continuous. Armorial bookplate of the noted British politician and ex- Governor of New South Wales, Sir Robert William Duff on the paste down fep.
A Concise History of Interior Decoration
Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine and corners bumped.
A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political and Social Glasses Commemorating 18th and 19th Century Events in English History
Nameplate reading: Alfred Bordon Brown Art Library Wynberg South Africa on front paste down endpaper. Stamp bearing the same name on front free endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. B/w photoplates.
A Critical Study of the Various Dates Assigned to the Birth of Christopher Columbus the Real Date 1451, with a Bibliography of the Question
Green cloth boards with guilt to the spine and front board. Presentation plate of Henry Vignaud tipped into fep. Dec. 8 1903 Jas. Filzmausier-Kelly with the compliments of. JFK’s bookplate on paste down fep. Newspaper article from 1955 about Columbus tipped in. Previous owner’s ex-libris stamp on the half title and the last pg. Pages have been unevenly cut. Contact bookseller for photographs.
A Delight of Owls : African Owls Observed
Contains numerous black-and-white and colour plates throughout. Previous book dealer’s label to front endpapers. DW shows slight edge wear.
A Dictionary of British Marine Painters
Dust jacket has loss to spine and edges. Paperclip mark to end papers otherwise an excellent copy with black and white plates.
A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (South African Words and Their origins)
A near fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket.
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, Illustrated with Maps and Plans
Two volume set. Owner’s stamp on front fep and ownership label on front endpaper of both vols. Inscription in ink on front fep of vol. 1.Binding is tight and only very occasional marks on pages. Boards show general wear and water marking. Corners bumped. Spine labels of vol. 1 faded and one is partly torn off.