Search Results: Authors starting with A from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(London: G. Morrish, [1889]). 12mo; original pictorial blue cloth blocked in black and gilt; pp. 156, publisher's catalogue; plates; line drawings in text.. Light wear to cloth; Sunday School prize inscription dated March 1909 to front free endpaper; endpapers browned, and some foxing, especially to edges; one or two gatherings a little pulled. Good condition. An attractive and uncommon little book. OCLC gives 1889 as the year of publication. The chapter titles read as follows: On Tombs, On Feasts, On Law-breakers, On Wells, On Tents, On Caves, On Beds, On Lamps, On Marriages, On Rewards. .

(Cape Town: C. Struik, 1963). Small 4to; original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt device to upper cover; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (viii) + 119; plates after contemporary illustrations by Thomas Bowler. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and sunned; light browning. Very good condition. "What she tells is very interesting, especially about social customs. She writes about the 'upper-ten', the old Dutch and English families, their elegant houses, what they did and did not do, what they ate and drank, their picnic parties and their dance evenings; she also tells about the fishermen, the Malay tailors, and the whole somewhat untidy but colourful scenes of the 'men in the street'." .

(Cape Town, Purnell, 1972). Quarto, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly scuffed, pictorial endpapers, pp. xi + 177, illustrations, colour plates. Edges slightly marked. .

(Cape Town: David Philip, 1984). 185 x 120 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. 262. A little brown spotting. Very good condition. .

(London: Luzac & Company, 1983) 0718902599. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xi + (i) + 226, incl. index; maps; photographs; genealogical tables. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel and slightly rubbed; blank label over ink stamp on front pastedown; some spotting to endpapers and outermost leaves, occasionally also elsewhere. Very good condition. "It should be noted that this book covers nearly two and a half centuries of Kuwaiti history. The first two centuries, namely the eighteenth and the nineteenth, represent, to a certain degree, the lesser known and sparsely documented portion of that history, while the years from 1900 to the present are either fully documented or well served in twentieth century writings. ... Personal interviews - which constitute oral sources - held while the author was researching materials for this history in London, Bahrain, and Kuwait were used to corroborate written sources concerning the rise and rule… Read more

(Göttingen, Verlag der Witwe Vandenboeck, 3rd, improved, edition, 1767). Small octavo, contemporary calf, gilt compartments on the spine, rather scuffed and tired, pp. (xvi) + 344 + (6: Inhalt). No half-title-page, title-page detached, some foxing, heavier on some gatherings. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Author, the 'Father' of Statistics. .

(Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1977) 0869750631. Edited by Walter Saunders. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 165; photographs. Dustwrapper somewhat foxed and edgeworn; trace of spotting to top edge and endpapers. Very good condition. "This absorbing book is the autobiography of a member of an old Natal family. Born in 1876, Renault Acutt spent his early years in Verulam on the North Coast, went to school at the Berea Academy in Durban and, in 1891, at the age of fifteen, started work as an office boy for a firm in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, then barely in its second year. He spent the better part of the next thirty years on the Rand, witnessing its growth and contributing to it as a contractor to the mines and later as a cinema entrepreneur (he was the first general manager of Africa's Amalgamated Theatres). It is his adventures in the 1890's and in the early part of this century that give the book its absorbing interest. There… Read more

(Cape Town, 2nd impression, 1989). Large paperback, pictorial card wraps, pp. 80, photographic illustrations. 'The vibrant community of District Six, at the foot of Table Mountain, lives on in this personal memoir...' .

(Cape Town: Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope, Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation, 1976). 216 x 143 mm; limp boards; no pagination; colour illustrations of 173 species; endpaper map. Ever so slightly rubbed; trace of foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. Bilingual text (English and Afrikaans). "This booklet dealing with the flowers of the Northern Cape is a further contribution towards publicising the rich and diverse flora of the Cape Province, which is claimed to be of the order of some 8000 - 10000 species. .

(London, Griffith Farran Browne & Co., no date, SABIB suggests [190-?]). 8vo; original decorative red cloth stamped in gilt, black and brown, rather rubbed and faded; corners bumped; pp. 384, frontispiece. Prize-label and past owner's discreet hand-stamp on front pastedown; scattered mild foxing. Boys' fiction after the G.A. Henty and Bertram Mitford formula. .

(London: Collins & Harvill, 1969). Large 8vo; pictorial boards; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 217 + (6); plates, incl. some in full colour. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing and some tape marks to reverse; corners lightly bumped; trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition. 'Joy Adamson, known for her epic of ELSA, the Kenya lioness, has a new and fascinating animal story to tell. This time it is centred on Pippa, a cheetah given to her by a family who were leaving Kenya and wanted to find a good home for their pet. Mrs. Adamson determined to restore this great cat to its natural wild heritage, but the problem presented many difficulties, for hitherto no domesticated cheetah had ever consented to return to the bush.' .

(Edinburgh, Thomas Allan & Sons, 1917). Duodecimo, lightly marked, pp. 23 + (1) (SABIB, Vol. I, p. 20: 'Poems on South African subjects.') .

(Scarborough: Scarborough FC Supporters Club, 2004). 206 x 145 mm; pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 129); photographs of teams, games, players and programmes, some of which in colour. Very good condition. Uncommon. Scarborough Football Club, which enjoyed a period in the Football League between the late 1980s and late 1990s, was dissolved within a few years of the publication of this book, produced to coincide with the club's 125th Anniversary Season. A new club, Scarborough Athletic, which plays in the eighth tier of English football and retains the Seagull badge of Scarborough FC, continues the tradition. .

(London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1960). First edition. 8vo; original pictorial boards; pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. 160; colour frontis; plates. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, with some edge tears, and earlier owner's tape repairs; small patch of deletion fluid over name on front free endpaper. Good condition. "This book records the extraordinary relationship with a Kenya lioness established by the author over a period of four years, and still existing. There have been many, too many, 'pet lions' but none has ever before been returned to a wild life and still maintained its relationship with human beings. ... Perhaps never before over a similar period has the life history of an animal been documented in greater detail by hundreds of photographs, over one hundred of which form the illustrations of this book." .

(London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1961). 8vo; original pictorial boards; endpaper map; pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pp. 146; colour frontis; plates. Earlier owner's tape repairs to edgeworn dustwrapper, which has some loss to bottom edge of lower panel; some fox spots to edges. Very good condition. "BORN FREE will always remain one of the great animal stories, as an account of a friendship between man and beast it is unsurpassed; but it is also unfinished. The continuation of George and Joy Adamson's relationship with Elsa, from the time of her mating with a wild lion until her cubs were a year old, is now described in LIVING FREE." .

(Johannesburg: Jacana Education, 1998) 1874955549. Cover title reads: 'Pilanesberg. Discover the Magic. The Complete Eco-guide'. 296 x 212 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + 61, incl. index; full-colour illustrations throughout. Very good condition. "This book will give you a broader, and more detailed, insight into the fascinating world of wildlife here. There is far more to the Pilanesberg than just finding lions! Pilanesberg is one of the oldest and largest volcanic complexes on earth. You may find ... the largest, or the fastest, or one of the most endangered land mammals on earth; or the largest flightless bird, just one of over 300 species of birds in the Park; or some of the thousands of plant, insect or reptiles species. Of course, one can never hope to see it all, but Pilanesberg's magic will be found in its unique geology, its ancient and extraordinary history, in the diversity of life and in looking for the big game. One of the best wildlife experiences that you can… Read more

(Johannesburg: Engineering Association / Department of Science & Technology, 2005). Title taken from slipcase. The individual volumes of the three-volume set are entitled: 1) The Hidden Edge: Quest for Progress; 2) The Leading Edge: Dividends of Democracy; 3) The Competitive Edge: Making Innovation Happen. Three 4to volumes, housed in a matching slipcase. Two of the books are hardcovers, with laminated pictorial boards, and corresponding dustwrappers; the third is of limp, laminated pictorial boards. Pagination: 1) pp. 244, incl. index; 2) pp. 256, incl. index; 3) pp. 104, incl. index. All three volumes lavishly illustrated. Short tear to head of spine panel in second volume's dustwrapper, else fine. "The Edge books tell the inspiring story of South Africa's scientific, technological and engineering achievements from the beginning of the last century to date. An award-winning journalist, leading photographers and a renowned designer have teamed up with two of South… Read more

(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1972). Dustwrapper rubbed, pp. 425. Edges very slightly foxed. 'This book, written by a South African Jew and student of history, professes to be neither erudite nor exhaustive, but is intended to give the average reader an easy approach to a story that to many is almost completely unknown.' .

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1989) 086852039X. 8vo; original orange boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 220; photographic portraits. School reference library handstamp to pastedowns and title page; trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition. "The Companion is the latest and most complete reference work on South African literature and covers a period of almost two hundred years, from 1795 to 1986. The Companion includes articles on over 450 authors, journals, important works and composite articles on the following: African-language Literature; Africana; Afrikaans Literature; Anthologies; Awards and Prizes; Banned Books; Biography; Black Consciousness; Black Theatre; Boer War Writing; British Settlers of 1820; Censorship; Criticism; Dictionaries; Education; Expatriate Literature; Exploration; History; Humour and Satire; Libraries and Museums; New Black Poetry; Periodicals; Popular Literature; Press and Publishing; Prose Commentary; Short Stories; Translations and Zimbabwean… Read more

(London, Adlard & Son, Limited, 1938). Original red pebbled cloth, gilt, soiled, and with small stain on lower board, pp. 38 + (i) + 66. Some foxing throughout. .