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

(Cape Town: Juta & Co., 1921). 185 x 123 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 106. Some rust marks to upper cover; chip to fore-edge of upper wrapper, with archival tape repair to reverse side; slightly frayed at head of spine; some foxing and regular, light browning. Good. (Strange Collection, 1168; Doke, p. 252; SABIB 4, p. 703) Uncommon title: OCLC finds just the North-West University Library copy. "As regards books in Zulu, there are many to be had, and some of them are excellent. The knowledge they impart is without doubt of great service in many cases. But I think they will of only limited service to beginners and to junior pupils. One fault is that they presume some previous knowledge or insight on the part of their readers, such as very often does not exist. Again, they have always seemed to me to fail in not being sufficiently full in the explanation of difficult points, and also to fail in not being graduated carefully and easily, so as to render it possible that progress may be at… Read more

(Halifax, Sentinel Projects, 1996). 203 x 145 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. (vi) + 118. Near fine condition. "Frederick Brian Wade set off from South Africa to join the British Forces to serve King and Empire during the First World War. He trained with the King Edward's Horse at Bishops Stortford and the Curragh in Ireland. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment which formed part of the 47th Division. Generally serving in the transport section, he served at the Somme and Ypres. Medically discharged due to illness, he returned to South Africa, and then went on to colonial service in formerly German-held Tanganyika. The military sections of this material were written subject to the censorship restrictions of the time." .

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1965). 4to; original green rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 242, incl. index; photographs in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper slightly worn and soiled to edges, with lamination partially lifting; code to dustwrapper's spine panel and to front free endpaper; ink stamp to copyright page and final text page; light foxing to endpapers. Very good, in a fair to good dustwrapper. "All his life Dr. Wager has maintained his interest in his unusual hobby of delving into the life histories of the South African Frogs. ... The book is lavishly illustrated, and even if one is not particularly interested in frogs, the reader cannot fail to be attracted by the hundred monochrome and eighty coloured pictures. Animals are notoriously hard to photograph for they will seldom co-operate, stay still, face the right direction, eat or call, and immediately attempt to retreat to a safe refuge. Dr. Wager's skill and patience are shown in… Read more

(Pretoria: Government Printer for Union of South Africa. Department of Mines and Industries, 1927). 240 x 150 mm; card wrappers; pp. 104. Wrappers a bit sunned. Geological survey of the Potgietersrust and Waterberg districts. .

(Pretoria: The Government Printing and Stationery Office, 1922). 8vo; original grey card wraps; pp. 136; plates, map. Wraps a bit sunned and fragile. Good condition. .

(Cape Town: Chameleon Press, 1986) 0620098309. 214 x 147 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 24; line drawings. Fine condition. Afrikaans text. The story of the ostrich feather industry and the place played by Oudtshoorn in its growth. "Soos Johannesburg en goud, of Kimberley en diamante, is die dorp Oudtshoorn sinoniem met volstruise. Soos met minerale, is daar goeie jare en insinkings - niks anders nie as met die goudstormlope van die 19de eeu. Waar het die broeivoëls vandaan gekom, en hoekom het spesifiek Oudtshoorn die wêreldsentrum van die volstruisboerderybedryf geword?" .

(Cape Town: Longman South Africa, 1970) 0582609216. Oblong 4to; original white boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xii + 124; full-colour plates after contemporary paintings; etchings in text; map. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper, to boards and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "Thomas Pringle, South Africa's first poet and the most gifted writer among the 1820 Settlers, was born on a farm in Roxburghshire on the Scottish border on January 5th, 1789, and arrived in South Africa on the brig Brilliant on the last day of April, 1820. His account of his life in South Africa, A Narrative of a Residence in South Africa, is one of the classics of frontier literature of the Nineteenth Century ... The aim of the present edition is to make Pringle's Narrative more accessible to the general reader by eliminating all extensive borrowings from other authors and other secondary material, and by concentrating throughout on what Pringle calls his… Read more

(Breslau, Ferdinand Hirt, 1921). Original decorative cloth-backed paper over boards, mottled, as usual, corners slightly bruised, pp. 206, frontispiece, plates, sketch-map. Browning, a little foxing, binding slightly strained, owner's hand-stamp in the top margin of the title-page. Fair condition. 'Ich habe dies Buch während des erfolgreichen Kriegjahres 1917 in der Einsamkeit einer südwestafrikanischen Farm geschrieben. Was ich im Schatten grüner Wälder, auf sonnendurchglühter Savanne, auf frier Steppe, in einsam stiller Wüste von deutschen Tropen gesehem, gedacht und erlebt habe, wollte ich in einer Reihe von einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen Bildern darstellen und meinerseits dadurch den kolonialen Gedanken in der Heimat fördern helfen.' German colonies in Africa. Namibia, etc. .

(Vancouver, J.J. Douglas for the Vancouver Public Library, 3rd reprinting of the 1909 edition, 1973). Dustwrapper, lightly soiled, original green cloth, endpaper map, pp. xix + 546, illustrations. Owner's name on the verso of the half-title-page, edges a little marked and foxed. .

(London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1958). 8vo; original green boards, a little tanned at head and tail of spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper, somewhat edgeworn, and foxed on reverse; earlier owner's name erased on front endpaper; pp. 188; black-and-white photographic plates; scattered, generally light, foxing. Good condition. "A popular figure everywhere because of his lively personality and cricketing skill, Walcott is well known also as a part of the West Indian triumvirate of W's; and his two long-standing friends Worrell and Weekes figure prominently among the many cricketers about whom Walcott writes. This is a vigorous and entertaining book, revealing the author's characteristic sense of fun and love of cricket." .

(Cape Town, Maskew Miller, 1970.). 182 x 117mm, laminated pictorial wraps very slightly rubbed, endpaper plan of the caves, pp. (vi) + 83, including index, with a colour frontispiece and 14 black-and-white photographs. A good, clean copy with no marks of previous ownership. An excellent introduction to one of Africa's greatest natural wonders. .

(London: Printed for the author by Adlard and Son and West Newman Ltd., 1923). 250 x 160 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 82; several text figures and two plates, one of which folding. Institutional hand-stamp and author's faint Compliments stamp to upper cover; wrappers rather foxed and worn, with archival tape reinforcing to spine; edges, plates and final text page foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. Uncommon title: OCLC does not find any South African repositories holding this work. A preliminary report on specimens of this mollusc family collected from the region south of the Zambesi and Kunene rivers, written by the leading American authority on the subject. .

(Johannesburg: Southern, 1991) 1868123650. Signed by the author-illustrator on the title page. 4to; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pictorial endpapers; pp. (xiv) + 129; wildlife sketches; colour photographs. Edges lightly sunned; some fox spots to top edge. Very good condition. "Through his evocative words, drawings and photographs Clive Walker conveys the importance of conserving wilderness areas such as Savuti. He depicts the contrasts which make Savuti unique: the beauty and the harshness, luxuriant riverine vegetation and parched Kalahari grasses, conservationists and poachers: life and death." .

(Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers, 1989) 0947458050. 4to; original blue boards, with silver gilt lettering to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 156; colour map; lavishly illustrated with stunning overhead photographs. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, and very slightly edgeworn; some spotting, particularly to reverse of dustwrapper and to top edge of some leaves. Good condition. German version of 'Okavango from the Air'. .

(Johannesburg: Sable Publishers, ca 1982) 0620062215. Large 4to; original grey cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 208; profusely illustrated, with photographs in colour and monochrome. Trace of sunning to dustwrapper's upper panel adjacent to spine; a little foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. "Most recent extinctions can be attributed, either directly or indirectly, to man; more specifically to man's demographic and technological expansion. ... If mankind continues to allow whole species to perish, when does their peril also become ours? In South Africa we have witnessed the extinction of the Quagga, the Bluebuck, the Cape Lion and any number of plant species. Right now there are certain species whose survival is threatened; the Black Rhino, the Cheetah, the elephants of Kaokoveld and Knysna, the Cape Vulture and the floral kingdom of the south western Cape." .

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928). 8vo; original dark buckram, lettered in gilt on spine; gift inscription to front free endpaper; pp. xii + 623, incl. index; several maps. Spine darkened, with light wear to extremities; cloth partially mottled; a little foxing to endpapers and edges. Good condition. The front endpaper inscription reads: "To Miss Winifred de Villiers / in recollection of many pleasant / motor drives from C. W. Darwin / Cape Town / 1928". .

(Johannesburg: The South African Trade Union Council, 1961). 8vo; original papered boards; no dustwrapper; pp. xxiii + (i) + 387, incl. index; plates. Good to very good condition. Spine somewhat sunned; some light browning to endpapers and outer leaves; a little soiling to edges. The first major history of trade unionism in South Africa. "The most elementary of trade union principles demands that workers, irrespective of race or colour, shall have the recognised right to organise and to bargain collectively for the improvement of conditions of employment and other standards of life. The time is long overdue for the trade union forces to overcome any reaction in their ranks, to boldly follow the path of democracy and progress and to fight for the establishment in our country of internationally accepted trade union rights for all workers. Should they fail to do this they will be helping in their own destruction and in the collapse of the living standards and working conditions so painfully… Read more

(Cape Town: J. F. Midgley, 1977) 0620024704. Publisher's presentation inscription to title page. 8vo; original brown boards; pictorial dustwrapper with later lamination; illustrated pastedowns; pp. (xii) + 171, incl. index; photographs and monochrome illustrations. Earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; loosely inserted press review of the book. Very good condition. "I have ... written the stories of my ancestors and my own reminiscences and have allowed myself to expand on those aspects which I believe to be of general interest and perhaps even amusement. In particular I have done my best to draw a pen picture of my beloved father, Eric Anderson Walker, as I knew him and his famous works. I have glossed over my own sadnesses and heartaches and extracted some of the more light-hearted anecdotes from the kaleidoscope of my life, referring 'pari passu' to episodes in recent and contemporary History as they have impinged on me." .

(London, Oxford University Press, re-issued, 1934). 12mo, original card wraps, rubbed and with short tears on the hinges, pp. viii + 336 + (i) + xxx: publisher's advertisements, a few diagrams in the text. Bookplate of Jack Vincent on the inside upper wrap. Edges slightly foxed. .

(Cape Town: J. F. Midgley, 1977) 0620024704. 8vo; original brown boards; pictorial dustwrapper; illustrated pastedowns; pp. (xii) + 171, incl. index; photographs and monochrome illustrations. Name signed on title page; trace of fishmothing to dustwrapper; a little spotting to edges. Very good condition. "I have ... written the stories of my ancestors and my own reminiscences and have allowed myself to expand on those aspects which I believe to be of general interest and perhaps even amusement. In particular I have done my best to draw a pen picture of my beloved father, Eric Anderson Walker, as I knew him and his famous works. I have glossed over my own sadnesses and heartaches and extracted some of the more light-hearted anecdotes from the kaleidoscope of my life, referring 'pari passu' to episodes in recent and contemporary History as they have impinged on me." .