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Native Housing in South Africa
by Calderwood, D M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
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About This Item
University of the Witwatersrand. Inscribed by the author. Published from the author's thesis which was approved for the degree of Doctor of Architecture. Presenting a comphrehensive account of the difficulties, shortcomings and costs of African Housing showing that the technical, social and economic aspects of housing must be looked at together. Includes Tables, Figures and Diagrams. Plans and b&w photographs. Previous owner's details on fixed end paper with an inscription by the author on the fep. Some toning, foxing and tide mark to prelims. The tide mark has seeped through all pages. Lightly shaken. 202 Pages. Contents clean. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to good-. Dust jacket: Poor. Open tears, creasing, tidemarks to spine area. Foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover. Edge-wear with some fraying. Tide mark with discolouration to the footer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306531
- Title
- Native Housing in South Africa
- Author
- Calderwood, D M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Bookseller catalogs
- Local History; Art & Architecture (South African);
Terms of Sale
Quagga Books
If an item is misdescribed we will offer a full refund. Tracking is only offered on the expedited postage option. Please note we offer the standard postage option without any tracking as an option for lower priced items as courier from South Africa is costly. Thus standard postage items in transit are at the purchaser's risk. Postage based on standard average sizes, if an item is particularly small, we will reduce the postage. If an item is larger than standard size, postage may increase.
About the Seller
Quagga Books
Biblio member since 2018
Cape Town
About Quagga Books
We have been in business for over 25 years. Situated in Kalk Bay, Cape Town at the Southern tip of Africa, we deal in all types of collectable books. Over the years we have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide, The Guardian and numerous others.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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