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

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2012) 9781868424955. English translation by Michiel Heyns. 8vo; original purple boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 710, incl. index; plates; ribbon markers. Fine condition. "This biography of JM Coetzee is the first to be written with the co-operation of Coetzee himself. With access to the writer, JC Kannemeyer was able to establish hitherto unsuspected connections between the writer's life and work. ... Kannemeyer candidly but sensitively describes Coetzee's relations with this parents, his wife and children, his colleagues and publishers. His account reveals the joy and also the sorrow that marked some of these relationships and how he was able to incorporate these experiences into situations, figures or motifs in his novels. ... After Kannemeyer it will not be possible to read Coetzee without an awareness of the deeply personal history and the social and political circumstances from which Coetzee's work has… Read More

(London, Collins, 1979). 8vo; original red boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper slightly creased; pp. 254, incl. index; black-and-white photographic plates. Very good condition. "J.P.R. Williams has been blessed with enough talents for half a dozen careers. Now a successful doctor who intends to specialize in sports injuries, his first success was as a singer, much in demand for his rendering of 'O for the wings of a dove' which he gave with an innocence many would not associate with the aggressive performances he was later to give on the rugby field. At seventeen he won the Wimbledon Junior Tennis title, by which time he was also playing in the Glamorgan Youth Orchestra as violinist. At nineteen, after learning his skills as a rugby player in the harsh school of Welsh rugby, he won his first full Welsh cap against Scotland in 1969. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, so that now only Barry John and Gareth Edwards are better known to rugby followers throughout the… Read More

(Pretoria: Herstigde Nasionale Party, 1985). 208 x 148 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 24; photographs. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. Sympathetic portrayal of Jaap Marais, leader of the right-wing Herstigde Nasionale Party, extreme offshoot of apartheid South Africa's ruling National Party. "In 'n tyd van verwarring en heftige politieke debat is dit moeilik om 'n leidende persoon objektief to beoordeel, veral weens waninligting wat deur opponente en media versprei word. Mnr. Jaap Marais is een van die leidende Afrikaans nasionale figure wat reeds 'n belangrike rol gespeel het en klaarblyklik nog sal speel. Dit is daarom nodig dat persone wat verantwoordelik aan die politiek deelneem, minstens basiese feite oor sy lewe sal hê. Dít is die doel van hierdie beknopte publikasie." - W. T. Marais, Chairman of the HNP .

(Chicago: M. A. Donahue, no date). Crown 8vo; original pale blue pictorial cloth; pp. 263 + publisher's catalogue; full-page illustrations. Light wear to extremities; corners a little turned; backstrip a bit tanned, and frayed at head; light browning throughout; occasional fox spot. Good condition. .

(London, The Sportsmans Book Club, 1961). 8vo; original burgundy boards; pictorial dustwrapper a little soiled; pp. xii + 220, incl. index; black-and-white photographic plates. Very good condition. "It was the character and not the statistics that made Jack Hobbs a representative name far beyond the gates of the Oval, that gave this cricketer a wider dominion in national life than any but the fabulous Grace had commanded before him and none, not Hammond nor Hutton nor Denis Compton even, have enjoyed since. To examine that fame and to look again at the successes and adversities of his wonderful career as a cricketer is to be conscious more and more of the impalpability of his kind of art." .

(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1965). Author's signed presentation inscription to title page. 8vo; original red boards, lettered in black on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 196; plates. Some wear to corners of boards and extremities of backstrip; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; occasional fox spot. Good condition. (Czech, p. 270) "In the first half of this book, Stodel notes hunting in Namibia and includes chapters on sport after steenbok, duiker and leopards, with additional note of bagging crocodiles and big game fishing off the African coast. Most of the remaining content involves his experiences during the Great War." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999. "Today I am a Big Game Conservationist. Four years ago I decided that I would join with those around the world whose concern was for the preservation of wild life, so fast disappearing from the plains and backwoods in the spread of civilisation, and the… Read More

(London: S. W. Partridge, [ca 1900]). Crown 8vo; red pictorial cloth; pp. 144 + 24; plates and illustrations in text. Light wear; backstrip a little sunned; school prize label dated 1902 to front free endpaper; regular, light browning; trace of foxing; lower hinge just starting. Good condition, in a very attractive binding. Moralistic Edwardian boys' fiction of a type very popular at the time. Edith C. Kenyon published more than fifty volumes of fiction. .

(no place: no date). 235 x 165 mm; card wrappers; pp. 13-31. Last few pages browned. Afrikaans text. Article written for the Hertzog-Annale, by one of Hertzog's private secretaries. .

(Cambridge, Printed for Messrs Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., at the University Press, 1935). Red cloth unevenly faded and a little soiled, pp. xvi + 207, text-illustrations, plates. Some foxing. .

(Cape Town, published by the author, 1951). An illustrated story in verse. Pictorial dustwrapper frayed, original gilt cloth, pp. 47, photographic portraits, erratum slip. Endpapers a little foxed, upper hinge beginning to split internally. Presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper, dated 18/6/51. .

(Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986). Laminated pictorial dustwrapper, scuffed, pp. xii + 284, a few plates. Long gift inscription on the front free endpaper, edges slightly soiled. 'An academic - even a visionary - by nature, he felt impelled to demonstrate that he was a man of action. Cosmopolitan in his political awareness, he constantly sought refuge in South Africa. A scientific humanist by choice, he was a Christian by conviction. This book examines how Smuts struggled with these dilemmas. It looks at his involvement in moves to unite the Boers and British of South Africa, to strenghten the links which bound together the member-states of the old British Commonwealth, to build a worldwide version of that Commonwealth by means of a League of Nations organization. This was the realm of ideas in which Smuts was most successful, as consultant to Louis Botha at home, to Lloyd George and Winston Churchill amongst British prime ministers and to Woodrow… Read More

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1986) 0868501271. 8vo; original dark brown boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 284, incl. index; photographs. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, and sunned on spine panel; some foxing to edges and endpapers. Good condition. "An academic - even a visionary - by nature, he felt impelled to demonstrate that he was a man of action. Cosmopolitan in his political awareness, he constantly sought refuge in South Africa. A scientific humanist by choice, he was a Christian by conviction. This book examines how Smuts struggled with these dilemmas. It looks at his involvement in moves to unite the Boers and British of South Africa, to strenghten the links which bound together the member-states of the old British Commonwealth, to build a worldwide version of that Commonwealth by means of a League of Nations organization. This was the realm of ideas in which Smuts was most successful, as consultant to Louis Botha at home, to Lloyd George and… Read More

(Cape Town: Heinemann & Cassell, 1952). 8vo; original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 568, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn, sunned and foxed; edges of boards somewhat rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on front endpaper; occasional light foxing. Good condition. "This biography of one of the greatest and most respected men of our time has a very special intimacy and authenticity. No other man could have brought to it such a full knowledge and understanding, for this is a record of Smuts's life by his own son." .

(Cape Town: the editors, 1996) 0620205709. One of an edition limited to 350 copies. 4to; original brown rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp.110, incl. index; monochrome plates, incl. folding. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Very good condition. "The work is a manuscript by Jan Commelin, written between 1687 and 1692 but never published. It is based on flora illustrated during the 1685-1686 expedition by Simon van der Stel to the Copper Mountains." .

(London, Geoffrey Bles, 1962). Illustrated by George Adamson. Small octavo, pictorial dustwrapper, pp. 106. Edges lightly foxed. Parody, satire on Apartheid legislation. 'Jan Domm was as upright and noble a specimen of White Man as you could hope to meet. He believed, with a belief even stronger perhaps than that held by the ordinary good citizen, that the Government, all-wise and all-benevolent, could make no mistakes. So when he was re-classified as Coloured, Jan Domm enthusiastically accepted the change in his status and bore its consequences with humility, pride and praise for the wonders of racial discrimination. True, he lost his wife, his children, money, job and sundry physical faculties. But to what a Cause!' .

(London: Hurst & Blackett, 1948). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in black on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. 271, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper edgeworn, and sunned on spine panel, with earlier owner's tape repair at tail; trace of wear to extremities of backstrip; earlier owner's name signed on flyleaf; some foxing to endpapers. Good condition. "This is the story of the remarkable and courageous career of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, the great South African Liberal, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mines and Education in the Union Government. He is (says the author) the heir to General Smuts for the Premiership, and points out that there is no other politician on the South African horizon of the calibre of Hofmeyr to lead the country when the Smuts epoch ends." .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2004) 062404243X. 8vo; original pale boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 532, incl. index; plates. Slight curl to top edges of dustwapper; occasional penned highlighting; some annotations to last index page and rear free endpaper recto. Good to very good condition. Afrikaans text. "'n Skrywer wat fisiek en geestelik avontuurlik gelewe het; 'n kleurryke, selfs onverskrokke voorloper. So word Jan Rabie onthou. By hom, saam met Marjorie Wallace aan huis, het die bekendste Sestigers 'n natuurlike tuiste gehad. In J.C. Kannemeyer se onderhoudende en simpatieke biografie kom Rabie verassend maar geloofwaardig na vore as 'n wesenlik skugter, skroomvallige mens. In sy lang aanloop tot skrywerskap, vanaf landelike jeugjare tot 'n vormende verblyf in Parys, is hy toenemend gedryf deur 'n passie vir Afrikaans en ook vir geregtigheid." .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2017) 9781868427420. 232 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xvi + 288, incl. index; illustrations in text. Gift inscription to half-title. Near-fine. Afrikaans text. "Jan Christiaan Smuts was 'n soldaat, staatsman, intellektueel en een van Suid-Afrika se grootste leiers. Tog word daar vandag min oor hom gepraat of geskryf, al beleef ons tans skynbaar 'n leierskapsvakuum. In Afrikaner sonder Grense voer Richard Steyn aan dat ons hierdie indrukwekkende kryger-staatsman se lewe en denke moet herbesoek, omdat daar soveel te leer is uit sy merkwaardige prestasies. Dié hoogs leesbare boek ondersoek onder meer Smuts se rol as politieke leier en as adviseur van wêreldleiers, sy geestelike en intellektuele lewe en sy verhoudings met vroue. Sy unieke bydraes op 'n verskeidenheid ander terreine, insluitend botanie, bewaring en filosofie, word ook bespreek. Afrikaner sonder Grense skram egter nie weg van die teenstrydige in Smuts nie. Hoewel hy… Read More

(London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1917). 8vo; original red cloth, stained; spine sunned and frayed at head and tail; bookplate on front pastedown; name of previous owner on title page; frontispiece portrait and 11 black-and-white plates; front hinge starting; a little browing. Fair condition. Early biography of General Smuts. .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1974) 0624005984. 8vo; original grey boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 218; photographs in text. Dustwrapper's spine panel slightly sunned; trace of foxing to top edge and endpapers. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Piet Meiring het met tientalle vooraanstaande Afrikaners wat Smuts geken het gesels om antwoorde vir al die tergende vrae te probeer vind: Het Smuts sy volk werklik afgesterf? Het hy alles prysgegee wat voorheen vir hom dierbaar was? Het hy 'n Engelsman geword? Anders gestel: Was hy in die eerste plek 'n patriot, 'n egoïs of 'n ryksgesinde? Die antwoorde wat die skrywer van mense en uit Smuts se eie boeke en briewe gekry het, is nog nie voorheen so gepubliseer nie en dwing die leser om opnuut na hierdie gevierde staatsman en intellektuele reus te kyk." .