’tis But Yesterday
Tape marks to the title page where binding has split. One plate is loose. A semi-historic story of life at the Cape of Good Hope from 1836 to 1848.
Fiction & Poetry
A Bard in the Backveld, Verse and Worse
Fep. glued down with slight fading to jacket cover.
A Bekkersdal Marathon
A clean inviting copy.
A Bosman Treasury
Shelf wear to top and bottom of 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 Century of South African Short Stories
Corners bumped.
A Hero of Lucknow
Some foxing on pages. Includes six illustrations. Corners bumped. Ink inscription dated 1904 to fep.
A Kipling Anthology, Verse
Scratch to the leather on the front board, otherwise very good.
A Passage to India
In a somewhat worn and darkened dust wrapper with some loss to the spine. 325pp, +iii advertisments at the back. Bottom edge of the pages is untrimmed. Original red boards with black titles. Binding is tight and all pages clean and free from foxing.
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights
No. 319 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Comprises 10 vols. of The Nights and 7 Supplemental volumes. Gilded top fore edges. Front and lower fore edges untrimmed.
A Sea of Thighs
A continuation of the famous Olympia Press erotic publications.
A Twist of Sand
Novel set on the Skeleton Coast (South West Africa/Namibia) during the Second World War. Past owner’s name stamped on title page. Past owner’s name and date in ink on front fep. Top fore edges of pages browned. Spine sunned.
African Camp-Fire Nights
Slight fading to spine. 192 pages with 11 illustrations.
All Things Considered: Poems
Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf. DW price clipped. DW faded at spine and folds, chipped along top edge.