Dark Folk And Other Poems by Slater, Francis Carey - 1935

(Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1935). Crown 8vo; original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xii + 85 + (ii). Spine sunned and a little mottled; corners a bit bumped; slightest rippling to cloth of upper cover's bottom edge; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of fishmothing to endpapers; moderate foxing throughout. Good. 'Though he disclaimed that his "Dark Folk" poems (1935) were "translations or imitations of native verse", Slater managed to capture something of the feel and idiom of traditional Xhosa song, as in the lovely "Lament for a Dead Cow" ... and also to convey a sense of a vanishing rural culture, once again in terms of the imagery and conceptual world of the Xhosa, as in "Milking Kraal" ... ' - M. van Wyk Smith: Grounds of Contest. A Survey of South African English LIterature. .

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1935. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. red cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 85 pp inscribed by the author to H. H. du Plessis on the front endpaper.

William Blackwood and Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. the jacket is scuffed and chipped about. edge wear on the book. foxing. ownership inscription and stickers. all pages are intact and legible. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Blackwood, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Jacket is worn and marked. Foxing. Well bound. [R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Edinburgh,, 1935. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Neat name on front endpaper, otherwise near fine in slightly used, very good minus dust jacket; chipped at head and browned at spine. Front panel of jacket in good order showing a young boy smiling with dunes in the background. . 8vo. pp xii, 85. Original publisher's textured red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1935. First edition. One page and text block edges with minor foxing, one page with stain from laid in newspaper notice, else about fine in very good dust jacket. First edition. xii, 86p, [i, ads]. Bound in publisher's gilt-titled red cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Honory Doctor of Literature University of South Africa).

Edinburgh : William Blackwood, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 85 pages ; 20cm. Subjects: Choruses, Secular (Unison) with piano.