Swazi Fireside Tales
by Savory, Phyllis (author), and Jillian Hulme (illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1972). Small quarto; original pale brown boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapperj pp. 159; line drawings. Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine panel and very slightly rubbed to lower panel; a little foxing to endpapers and reverse of dustwrapper, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. 'These Swazi Tales handed down from generation to generation are an important part of their age-old history and Phyllis Savory has again saved for posterity these priceless relics of the African Continent.' .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12058
- Title
- Swazi Fireside Tales
- Author
- Savory, Phyllis (author), and Jillian Hulme (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1972)
- Keywords
- African oral literature. Folklore. Folk tales. Swaziland. Swazis. Folklore
- Bookseller catalogs
- Folklore;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...