Search Results: Titles starting with E from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1974) 360001963. Volume IV in the series 'South African Forces World War II'. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + (ii) + 448, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper a bit creased and edgeworn, with archival tape repairs to reverse of tear at head of spine panel; bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board; some light foxing to edges and rear endpaper, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "James Ambrose Brown's Eagles Strike is practically a blow-by-blow account of the air and land battles fought in North Africa between 1941 and 1943. It shows the South African Air Force in action with the famous Desert Air Force of which it was a vital part. Here for the first time the reader will find a narrative of every great land battle of that period - the saga of retreat and advance over a thousand miles of desert - with, for the first time, the part of the air forces related to the total strategy. Here is the… Read More

(New York, Vantage Press, 1984). Pictorial dustwrapper, pp. (vii) + 112. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. ' ... a hidden valley at the tip of Africa holds a pool of prehistoric life left by receding time. Here the last of the Khoikhoi,a cave-dwelling people widely known as Hottentots, live in unity with their surroundings, Harip, a young boy growing into manhood, shares the friendship of a resident family of African fish eagles.' Children's fiction. .

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). 240 x 170 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. xxi + (i) + 615; maps; tables; line drawings; plates. Fair condition; cover rather rubbed, sunned and soiled; page corners a little curled and edges spotted; occasional pencilled annotation; previous owner's name signed on half-title. "The East Rudolf and Omo regions of Kenya are two of the most important areas for studying the earliest stages of man's physical and cultural evolution. This volume brings together the work of an international group of some fifty scientists who have been engaged in research in the basin." .

(Cape Town: Cape Times, [1952]). Offprint from Archives Year Book for S.A. History, 1952, Part II. 272 x 178 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (ii) + [281-293]; portrait plate. Some foxing; some fishmothing to bottom fore-corner of first text leaf. Fair to good condition. John Croumbie Brown (1808-95) was a Presbyterian minister, and "pioneer of forestry, soil conservation and hydrology in South Africa ... When Pappe, first Colonial Botanist, died in 1862, the post was offered to Brown, and he took up his duties, which included the Chair of Botany at the S.A. College, Cape Town, in 1863. In 1866 the post of Colonial Botanist was abolished and he returned to Scotland to continue his ministry for ten years." - Gunn & Codd: Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa, p. 105 .

(Addo: the author, 2002). 210 x 147 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial card wrappers; pp. 24; monochrome illustrations. Very good condition. "The First World War ended in 1918, returning many able young men to civilian life in England without much hope of jobs. Peacetime commerce and industry had virtually come to a standstill as a result of the War Effort, and jobs were scarce. My father Kit and his elder brother Arthur, fresh out of uniform, found themselves without prospects, as their father had died young and the family business had come to an end. They chanced upon a curious advertisement extolling the virtues of a new Settlement Scheme in faraway South Africa, promoted by an enterprise calling itself the Cape Sundays River Settlement Company. People were looking to the colonies for entrepreneurial opportunities, and the two brothers aged nineteen and twenty-one, announced their intention of taking part in this pioneering venture. ... and so it was that in 1919 the two brothers and their… Read More

(Cape Town: Juta & Co., 1936). 8vo; original blue cloth, with black lettering to spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + v + (i) + 223; plates. Bookplate of bibliophile and diplomat Frikkie Botha to front pastedown. Dustwrapper somewhat edgeworn, and browned on spine panel; top edges of boards bleached; some foxing to endpapers, and occasionally elsewhere. Very good condition. The travellers dealt with in this work are Gonneville, Parmentier, Pyrard, Mocquet, Beaulieu, Flacourt, Tavernier, Tachard, Choisy, Forbin, Chaumont, and Leguat. .

(Kimberley: Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape, 1986) 0620102063. Kimberley series no. 6. 210 x 293 mm; side-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + 152 + (iv), incl. index; contemporary photographs, captioned. Wrappers slightly rubbed, slight crease to upper cover; earlier owner's bookplate to inside of upper cover. Very good condition. A fascinating compilation of photographs showing the personages, buildings and events connected with Kimberley's creation and early history, from the start of diamond mining by independent diggers to the advent of aviation, sports clubs and public institutions. .

(Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2007) 978869191474. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 507, incl. index. Fine condition. "In Early slavery at the Cape of Good Hope Karel Schoeman describes the transplanting of slavery from the Dutch colonies in the East and the first sixty years of its development under local conditions, basing his account mainly on contemporary sources and providing as much information on individual slaves and their lives as these allow. Attention is likewise given to the gradual manumission of slaves and the slow development of a 'free black' community at the Cape towards the close of the seventeenth century." .

(Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 1987) 0869775596. 280 x 215 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 224 (including index); numerous black-and-white photographs. Sunned on spine and adjacent portion of wrappers; bottom fore-corner of lower cover slightly creased; faint trace of foxing to edges and inside of wrappers. Very good condition. "This is intended to be a human story about motorists and the cars they bought, drove, raced, crashed, cursed, scrapped, hated - and loved. Early Motoring in South Africa is a nostalgic and informative look at the first 40 years of the motor-car in Southern Africa - the good years before the servant became the master, but also the years of frustration and disappointment, bad roads, rough terrain and economic depression. Spanning the period 1897 to 1939 there are over 425 photographs, most of which are unique, and an authoritative yet entertaining text." .

---. Architect: Lowell Mason. Illustration shows two façades on a street corner. 'Drawing for Messrs R.[?] H. White & G. Lea [?]. This building could have an association with the Hampson family, who were wool merchants in Durban and from whom this sketch was purchased by us. Creased and a little torn. 180 x 375 mm. .

(London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1979) 0460043188. 8vo; original turquoise boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + (iv) + 256, incl. index; plates; maps; diagrams. Short (5mm) tear to top edge of dustwrapper; some minor spotting. Very good condition. "Upheavals from within, bombardment from without - can the Earth survive? A single great natural disaster or a related sequence of disasters could destroy civilization as we know it and even threaten the existence of Man himself. ... In this timely and important book two outstanding geologists, drawing upon their extensive research experience of the Earth and its history, assess the many dangers that menace our everyday lives, highlighting their survey with numerous case histories of previous natural disasters. Posing the alternatives for Man - catastrophe or survival - they investigate the political and social implications of large-scale extraterrestrial bombardment, consider the likely… Read More

(London, Williams & Norgate, 1930). Original wraps, soiled, some fraying at extremities of the spine, owner's inscription on the upper wrap, price-clipped on upper flap, pp. 96. Some foxing and pencilling in the margins. Bookseller's address label tipped to contents page. Fair condition. 'Well qualified by many years' experience in British tropical Africa, both as a Government official and as a trained ethnologist, Mr. Driberg criticises the present system of Imperial colonisation and advances some revolutionary and constructive proposals for the better government of Africa in general and East Africa in particular.' .

(St Ives, Cambridgeshire: Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd, 1998) 0852882513. 4to; pictorial boards; pp. viii + 229, incl. index; numerous full-colour maps, photographs, harbour plans, diagrams. Boards very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. "Delwyn McPhun has cruised the coast of East Africa between Kenya and Durban for nearly a decade and has surveyed the area covered by this new pilot book in detail, visiting each port, harbour and anchorage that he describes. As a long-term resident of the East African countries, he has gained an unrivalled working knowledge of their people, customs and the problems that the cruising yachtsman is likely to encounter. His sailing directions and narrative have been produced as a complete handbook for both yachtsmen and diving enthusiasts. East Africa Pilot is produced to the high standard that is associated with Imray cruising guides and will be recognised as the definitive work on the area. Its coverage includes Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozambique and… Read More

(no place: the author, 2006) 0620371870. Signed by author on title page. 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. (vii) + 93; monochrome illustrations; genealogical table. Crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover. Very good condition. This book deals particularly with the author's experiences as a crewman on HMSAS Natal, which was actively involved in the Battle of the Atlantic, and during the closing stages of the Second World War, in the occupation of territories of the Far East that had been invaded by the Japanese. .

(Grahamstown: Mvusi Books, 2010) 9780986979101. Signed by the author on the half-title. 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 141. Earlier owner's name signed on half-title. Very good condition. "John Stanford's anecjokes are yarns against adversity, related with elegance and wry humour. Spanning half a century, they range from sheep psychology to frozen tractor valves to ancestral aunts. Many of the same characters re-appear, and the patchwork of stories accumulates into a vivid portrait of a farming community and an extended family. John Stanford qualified as a civil engineer, and has been a farmer all his life - mostly in East Griqualand ... He is over 80 now, still farming, and philosophical about most things except the weather." .

(London: The Batchworth Press, 1949). 8vo; original red ochre cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 218, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper slightly foxed; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; annotations to rear free endpaper and final blank; some marginalia and highlighting; some foxing. Good condition. "This study of the East India Company's Maritime Service is both timely and important. In our Commonwealth of Nations, which owes its creation and existence to the exercise of sea power, the study of naval and maritime history is strangely neglected. No full scale treatment, for example, of the rise and establishment of British naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean has yet been published. This volume, which fills one of the gaps in that story, is therefore the more to be welcomed." .

(East London: Centenary Executive Committee, 1948). 280 x 223 mm; side-stitched pictorial wrappers (housed in removable protector); pp. 200; profusely illustrated; adverts. Earlier owner's initials to upper cover and title penned on spine, which has tape reinforcing at head; discreet archival tape reinforcing to upper hinge. Good to very good condition. Table of Contents: Goodwill Messages; Historical Sketch of East London; Travels of Franz von Winckelmann in Kaffraria, 1789, published for the first time in this brochure; The Churches of East London; Story of the German Legion; Ode to East London; Municipal Enterprise; East London's Chief Citizens; Visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen and Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and The Princess Margaret, March 1947; East London as a Holiday Resort; The Grand Prix; History of Buffalo Harbour; East London's Industrial Development; History of the Kaffrariain Rifles; Centenary Celebrations: Official Programme of events. .

(London, John Murray, 1945). Original cloth, marked, pp. xxii + 218, frontispiece, plates, sketch-map. Text a little browned, some foxing on the preliminary pages and edges. Rather better than fair. .

(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 1996) 0620187476. No. 53 of a limited hardcover edition, signed by both authors on the front free endpaper. 8vo; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 144; liberally illustrated, including full-colour natural history plates; map. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. The only such guide to the history and wildlife of the Algoa Bay islands. "Threads of solitude and privation, punctuated by moments of high drama, bind together the lives of all those people who have had to come to terms with these islands - from the first people known to have set foot on them, terrified survivors of early shipwrecks, right up to the modern residents who are there because they choose to be. Not even modern technological conveniences like super-fast boats, helicopter shuttles, two-way radios, television, or now even cellular telephones, can entirely cancel out the loneliness of the islands." .

(London: "East Africa", 1934). Tall 8vo; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. xvii + (i) + 376, incl. index; photographs; maps; adverts. Cloth somewhat worn and stippled; boards distorted from rough storage; edges, endpapers and outermost leaves foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Fair to good condition. In-depth examination of the resources and prospects for development of the Rhodesias, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, British Somaliland, and The Sudan, with chapters by experts on each subject. .