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Jonathan Ball. Johannesburg 1991. 1st edition. No inscriptions, shelfwear o/w VG in dustwrapper (rubbed, no chips, tears, or loss).. Blue cloth boards 185pp. illustrated colour & b/w photos. 8vo. Biography written by the State Presidents older brother, a seasoned political commentator, academic and former newspaper editor. Frederik Willem se Klerk became South Africa's State President in September 1989. Four months later he boldly moved to set South Africa free of his past. Author stands back and examines his brother's rise to power and his performance since that. A book from the heart of Afrikaner politics.

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 2002 1st edition.. No inscriptions, 4 square corners. A very Fine copy.. Printed boards. 76 colour illustrations. 240mm x 175mm. 0.6kg. Macho models in leather kit, photographed in nautical settings.

Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1974.. Inscription 'printers copy' to ffep. some insect damage along lower edges hence a clean G+ copy in dustwrapper (worn along top edges, insect attack along bottom edge, no major tears or loss). a clean reading copy.. Gilt titles on terracotta cloth boards. 230pp. illustrated b/w photos. 8vo Based upon the diaries of Dan & Maynie Judson, this biography of life in early Rhodesia covers the Mazoe patrol and other events during the Mashona rebellion of 1896.

Ravan 1981.. Owners signature ffep. G-VG condition.. 219pp paperback. Lesotho, once 'the granary of the Free State and part of the Cape Colony', eventually became an impoverished labour reserve. Mass labour migration destroyed family life in Lesotho as well as in Botswana, Swaziland, and the bantustans within South Africa. Why did the migrant labour system not end with political independence in these countries? Author examines this fundamental question in his historical study of Lesotho.

National Herbarium. Sydney nd. c.1960s.. No inscriptions, a Fine copy.. Green leatherboards. 90pp illustrated b/w square 4to.

Chiswick Press. London 1926.. Boards insect-scarred. some few annotations. illustrations and charts in good order. a sound copy if unattractive.. Gilt on red cloth boards. 100pp illustrated 4to with two folding genealogy charts in rear pocket. George Luck Galpin (1857-1941) was the fifth of six sons of Henry Carter Galpin (b. 1820) who came to South Africa in 1848, moving to Grahamstown the next year to set up business as a watchmaker and jeweller. His house, in Bathurst Street, with its camera obscura, is presently a museum. George Luck Galpin was schooled at St Andrews in Grahamstown. He then went to England where he qualified first as a dentist and then as a surgeon. Returning to South Africa he practised as a surgeon (F.R.C.S.) in Port Elizabeth from 1885 to 1912. This work records in detail the early family history in England up to Henry Carter Galpin, and is replete with illustrations, detailed notes, arms. etc.

Chiswick Press. London 1926.. Boards insect-scarred. some few annotations. illustrations and charts in good order. spine in poor condition with breaks in rear joint and loss to top. rear board hinge. Poor condition and unattractive, a reference copy only.. Gilt on red cloth boards. 100pp illustrated 4to with two folding genealogy charts in rear pocket. George Luck Galpin (1857-1941) was the fifth of six sons of Henry Carter Galpin (b. 1820) who came to South Africa in 1848, moving to Grahamstown the next year to set up business as a watchmaker and jeweller. His house, in Bathurst Street, with its camera obscura, is presently a museum. George Luck Galpin was schooled at St Andrews in Grahamstown. He then went to England where he qualified first as a dentist and then as a surgeon. Returning to South Africa he practised as a surgeon (F.R.C.S.) in Port Elizabeth from 1885 to 1912. This work records in detail the early family history in England up to Henry Carter Galpin, and is replete with… Read More

Janet Mellville 1977.. Repairs to binding, 40mm piece missing next to spine, else a Good copy as such. no inscriptions.. Brown textured 'leather'. 168pp illustrated. The original Thomas Melvill arrived in Simon's Bay in May 1901. Much information from various written sources and documents is contained herein as well as a family registers comprising the original prepared in 1921 by J.M. Marquard and a more detailed one prepared by Janet Mellville in 1977.

Heinemann. London 1936 1st edition.. VG condition. no dustwrapper. Gilt device on navy cloth boards Signed by Author on ffep.

Orbis. NY 1981. 3rd printing.. No inscriptions VG, bright and clean.. Printed wraps. xii + 185pp. Same title as 'Black Theology, Black Power' published by Mowbray, Oxford, 1978. isbn 9780264665085.

Victor Gollancz. London 1971. 1st edition.. Bookplate to front pastedown, book seller's stamp to ffep. Eps and edges foxed else contents excellent. Overall a VG+ copy in VG+ Gollancz yellow dustwrapper (no chips, tears, or loss).. Red cloth boards. 191pp 8vo. 0.4kg. The plot has a strong South African connection centred in Durban.

W.P. Nimmo Hay, & Mitchell. Edinburgh nd. (early 20thC).. No inscriptions. near new, very attractive.. Gilt title on soft maroon leather. hardback. all edges gilt. marbled eps. frontis. 276pp sm.8vo

Juta & Fisons. Durban nd. c.1950s.. VG condition, clean and sound. no dustwrapper.. Green cloth boards 561pp illus b/w plates, dwgs. etc. 8vo indexed. This text discusses the grass veld and its soil, and how to manage this when livestock graze and deplete the soil.

Constable. London 1994 1st edition.. Small brown mark on bottom edge o/w VG+ in VG+ dustwrapper.. Black cloth boards. 213pp. Warm gift inscription by author on title page.

1988.. No inscription. wraps a little worn, VG condition.. 36pp stapled booklet. Written in honour of the proposed visit of his Holiness, Pope John Paul II, to Lesotho, September 1988, in order to beatify Father Gerard, who was declared Venerable by Pope Pius XII in 1952 at Rome.

Victor Gollancz. London 1985. 1st edition.. Bookplate front pastedown, eps and edges spotted else contents excellent, minor spine lean hence a G+ copy in G-VG Gollancz yellow dustwrapper (no chips, tears, or loss).. Red cloth boards. 183pp 8vo 0.4kg

Muszaki Konyvkiado 1955.. Good condition.. Black cloth boards. 635pp illustrated b/w & colour. Hungarian text on photography.

Supernova. Venezia 1994. Limited edition of 1000 unnumbered copies only. no isbn apparent.. Wraps a bit creased, gift inscription, ff tanned, a Good clean copy.. 220pp softcover. 8vo. Warm gift inscription from author to "Sandra". This work investigates South African historical novels as foundational narratives that mediate between history and story in order to conjure up the myth of the modern nation. By exploring the rhetoric of plot patterns and the semantics of recurrent motifs, the book discusses the ways in which texts produce a literary discourse about the past which aims at forming or consolidating a national consciousness. Author was a researcher in the Department of English and German Languages and Literatures at the University of Padova.

Struik. 1998 3rd edition.. Spine carefully reinforced with sellotape. Strong, clean, excellent contents.. 399pp illustrated softcover. 0.8kg. Covers tortoises, snakes, lizards, geckos, chameleon, and crocodiles. Over 600 excellent illustrations. Much updated with 83 new species over earlier editions and showing vastly more than the miserly 56pp in the current Sasol guide.

Natural Resources Institute 1990.. VG+ condition.. Printed yellow wraps. 275pp illustrated line drawings and colour plates. A4 format. 0.8kg. Gift inscription from Author. Designed mainly to help foresters identify trees in the Ghanaian rain forest. Includes a 'Main Key' for all species and a subsidiary '200 Main Species Key' with detailed explanation of their use.