Search Results: Titles starting with A from Quagga Books

ABSA. Inscribed by Pauline Gutter, the 2013 winner. Condition: Very good. Hardcover.

Jennifer Sorrell. A South African art journal, size A3, lavishly illustrated including both colour and black white images usually devoted to a single theme. This edition features an A-Z of Durban - people, places, art, history, and much more. 127 Pages. Binding firm. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Thick card-wraps with some edge-wear. Staplebound.

Jennifer Sorrell (Ed). A South African art journal, size A3, lavishly illustrated including both colour and black white images usually devoted to a single theme. This edition focuses upon promoting Cape Town. An A-Z volume of what there is to discover in the cosmopolitan city. From art, theatre, busking to vintage photographs, music and local communities. Lacks the subscription page which has been removed leaving only the stubb. Good. Softcover. Thick card-wraps. Edge-wear with some creasing.

Jennifer Sorrell (Edited), 1987. A South African art journal, size A3, lavishly illustrated including both colour and black white images usually devoted to a single theme. This edition features articles on Nelson Mukhuba, Gavin Younge and others. Some wear to the wraps. Condition: Good-. Binding: Softcover. Thin paper-wraps. Some light edge-wear.

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1905. Bound in decorative cloth with gilt titles to the spines and front boards. Spines faded with chips to heads and feet. Splitting to the gutters at the endpapers but binding of both volumes firm. All maps present. Two maps to rear pocket of volume 1 and three to the rear pocket of volume 2. Previous owner's signature to the paste down of both volumes. Plate facing page 8 of volume 2 is in facsimile. Some light foxing to the prelims.

Bockenhoffer, 1689. Latin text. 6 woodcuts, plus one smaller in text. 16 prelims and 16 pg index and errata.

Holkrans Uitgewers. Signed by the author and illustrator. Text: Afrikaans. 14 short poems each accompanied by an illustration. Mild cockling to the top edge of the pages. Toning with a small tide mark to the first and last free end pages. The author was a popular South African actor/icon/legend during the Sixties and Seventies. 35 pages. Contents clean and firmly bound. Condition: Good-. Binding: Softcover. Thick illustrated card-wraps with some light edge-wear. Mild handling marks.

Marjorie Bull. Abraham de Smidt was a topographical draughtsman and many of his South African landscapes reflect his journeys around the country as a surveyor. He was renowned for his landscape painting (he was a pupil of Thomas Bowler) and active in the fine arts exhibitions in the mid-1800s. Included is a catalogue of paintings of which 26 are reproduced in colour and 30 in black and white. There are a further 47 illustrations in black and white. 164 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Good. Good. Some light foxing to the verso Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Marjorie Bull. Abraham de Smidt was a topographical draughtsman and many of his South African landscapes reflect his journeys around the country as a surveyor. He was renowned for his landscape painting (he was a pupil of Thomas Bowler) and active in the fine arts exhibitions in the mid-1800s. Included is a catalogue of paintings of which 26 are reproduced in colour and 30 in black and white. There are a further 47 illustrations in black and white. Toning and foxing to the front prelims. Some cocking to the lower page edges. Some scattered foxing. 164 Pages. Binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Good-. Dust jacket: Good. Some light edge-wear. Foxing on the verso. Mild cocking on the front cover. Binding: Hardcover. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Indentation on the front board caused by damp. Tide-mark on the fixed end paper.

Marjorie Bull. Abraham de Smidt was a topographical draughtsman and many of his South African landscapes reflect his journeys around the country as a surveyor. He was renowned for his landscape painting (he was a pupil of Thomas Bowler) and active in the fine arts exhibitions in the mid-1800s. Included is a catalogue of paintings of which 26 are reproduced in colour and 30 in black and white. There are a further 47 illustrations in black and white. Some foxing to front and rear prelims. 164 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edtion. Condition: Good-. Dust jacket: Good-. Some light edge-wear. Foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Marjorie Bull. Abraham de Smidt was a topographical draughtsman and many of his South African landscapes reflect his journeys around the country as a surveyor. He was renowned for his landscape painting (he was a pupil of Thomas Bowler) and active in the fine arts exhibitions in the mid-1800s. Included is a catalogue of paintings of which 26 are reproduced in colour and 30 in black and white. There are a further 47 illustrations in black and white. 164 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Some light sunning to spine. Crinkling to the laminate. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Alan Jefferies. Signed by the author. The history of generations of the Jefferies family living near the Kei River despite adversity during the frontier wars.

Richard Bentley, 1839. Small library plate to the paste down of each volume and stamp to the title page and page 1 of each volume. Three plates and the map are all present. The map has been neatly detached and is without tears.The spines have been professionally rebacked on each volume and the set would be in very good condition save for a consistent level of foxing throughout both volumes.

Daldy, Isbister & Co.. Faded red outline image of Africa with a crown at the top and the signature of the author at the bottom on the front covers. Gilt lettering to spines. Vol 1: Splitting to front end papers. Two embossed stamps of W H Smith & Son Library on front end paper. Lacks folding map. Vol 2: Repaired splitting to spine and chipping to head and foot. Contents in both volumes remarkably clear with light foxing only to the prelims. Cloth boards are scuffed. 389 pages (Vol 1) and 366 pages (Vol 2). 4th Edition. Condition: Fair to good. Spines are in poor condition. Hardcover. Black cloth boards. Edge-wear to extremities.

Daldy, Isbister & Co.. Bookplate of George Ernest Morrison to paste-down of both volumes. Also signed by previous owner and historian, Eric Axelson. Chipping to the head and foot of the spines of both volumes and general edge-wear to the bindings. Folding map to the rear pocket of Volume 1. Numerous illustrations, folding maps and charts. Foxing to the prelims. Some minor tide marks to the top edge of a few pages in Volume 1. Contents clean. Vol I - xiv; 389pp; 4pp ads. Vol II - x; 366pp; 8pp ads.

Grocott & Sherry. Personal reminiscences from the 1870's when William Rose arrived in Port Alfred as a small boy. He later became the Town Clerk of the Port. Some foxing front prelims. Previous owners names on front cover. 31 Pages. Contents clean.

South African Associationfor the Advancement of Science, 1905. Articles on Ostrich farming, William Burchell, Languare and 'racial affinities of Hottentots" &c.

South African Associationfor the Advancement of Science, 1905. Chapters on the Magnetic Survey of SA, Gold mining and Indigenous forests &c.

Human & Rousseau, 1974. An illustrated monograph signed by the author, Olga Levinson.

Human and Rousseau Publishers (Pty) Ltd., 1974. Adolph's water-colours and oil's, presented here on his 85th anniversary as an artist. Pictorial linen boards showing general wear and tear. Tear in the cloth on spine. Glue stains on back cover. English, German and Afrikaans text.