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

(Paris, Paris, 1938). Préface de T.G. Longstaff; traduction Française de P. Granjux; avec 2 croquis et 34 gravures. Marbled quarter calf, pp. 248 + (6: publisher's advertisements), plates, maps. Text lightly browned. Small tape-marks on the pastedown endpapers, bookplate of Jack Vincent on the verso of the front free endpaper. French translation from the English original, published 1937. .

(Paris: Editions de la Revue Blanche, 1902). Large 8vo; quarter red morocco, with matching bubbled cloth sides; spine tooled in compartments, with gilt lettering to second compartment; marbled endpapers; pp. (iv) + 716; plates, some of which with partial colour; illustrations and maps in text. Corners turned; cloth somewhat rubbed; moderate foxing throughout; short tear to top edge of a few leaves. Good condition. French text. (SABIB 4, p. 84) Record of the South African War, reflecting continental sympathy with the cause of the Boer guerillas. .

(Buenos Aires: Nuestro Pabellón, 1958). Small 4to; original dark brown-and-white natural cowhide; nylon endpapers; pp. 104 + (vi), incl. index; evocative monochrome photographs with commentary, captions and prologue by Jorge Luis Borges in Spanish, German, French and English. A little wear to cover; discreet archival tape reinforcing to upper hinge; occasional small fox spot. Good condition. "The picturesque is the exception in this country and we as Argentine do not feel it. Hence the difficulty of grasping in a limited series of images these farouche and almost abstract realities, hence the singularity of the achievement which Thorlichen has brought off with clarity, fervour and good luck." - Jorge Luis Borges .

(Tucson, Arizona, 1969). Quarto, pictorial dustwrapper, foxed, short tear, but no loss, original red cloth, pp. 160, colour illustrations. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper, preliminary pages and edges lightly foxed. 'Just as he was achieving a secure place in American Art, death stilled the brush of Hurlstone Fairchild at his studio in Tucson. ...' .

(Paris: KARTHALA / Johannesburg: IFAS, 2006) 2845867700. 240 x 160 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 410 + (iv); graphs; maps; illustrations. Very good condition. French text. Analysis of post-apartheid housing in Port Elizabeth. "Dix ans plus tard, la question du logement demeure d'actualité tandis que le recul rend possible les premiers bilans. C'est ce que se propose de faire cet ouvrage: à travers le cas de Mandela-City (ex. Port Elizabeth), il revient sur les choix qui ont été faits dans les années 1990 par des pouvoirs publics embarrasses pour trancher entre retrait et interventionnisme." .

(Johannesburg: South African Broadcasting Corporation, [1963]). 210 x 133 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. 29 + (iii). Wrappers a little rubbed; earlier owner's hand-stamp to first page; slight browning. Good to very good condition. Afrikaans text. 'Daar is in die afgelope tyd baie oor die jeug geskryf en gepraat. Die onderwerp van die jeug is dus al 'n "ou saak". Nou wil ons egter die ou saak uit 'n ander hoek benader. Gewoonlik word die vraag gestel: laat die jeug ons in die steek? Of die bewering word gemaak: die jeug het ons in die steek gelaat. Nou keer ons vir 'n oomblik die vraag om, naamlik: laat óns die jeúg in die steek?' .

(London: Jonathan Cape, 1926). 8vo; original yellow cloth, with paper title label to backstrip; dustwrapper; pp. 112. Dustwrapper tanned, edgeworn, and a bit soiled, with large section of spine panel missing (a surprising survival nonetheless); endpapers and edges somewhat foxed. Good condition. A volume of verse from one of the most individualistic writers of her generation. .

(Cape Town, no date, preface: 1964). Dustwrapper a little frayed, light foxing on the endpapers and edges, opaquing-fluid on the front free endpaper. 'To millions of Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought in World War II the Lady in White is a living legend.' .

(Pietermaritzburg: the editor, 1993) 0-9583051-3-7. 225 x 145 mm; card wraps; pp. 20. Edition limited to 200 copies. Very good condition. Letters of Alfred Markham written to his cousin, Guy. "The first letter, written over a period of one month, covers the siege [of Ladysmith]. The second letter, written after the siege had been lifted, was sent from Intombi Camp, situated beside the railway four miles south-east of Ladysmith. By agreement between General White and Boer Commandant-General Joubert, the first sick and wounded had been permitted to leave Ladysmith for Intombi Camp on Sunday, November 5. It was here that Alfred Markham was treated for enteric fever before being invalided back to England. After a period of some months' convalescence, he returned to South Africa, where he joined his company in the Eastern Transvaal. The third and fourth letters, addressed from Lydenburg and Middelburg, cover this period. It was in Middelburg that the first (unsuccessful) peace… Read More

(London: The Folio Society, 1982). Translated by Charles de Salis with an introduction by John Keay. Engravings taken from the first English edition. 8vo; original blue canvas, ornately blocked in gilt and grey; papered slipcase; tinted top edge; endpaper map; pp. 351; engravings in text. Fine condition, in a slightly rubbed and sunned slipcase. "And so to Fathers Huc and Gabet, the only Europeans apart from Manning who certainly saw Lhasa in the whole of the nineteenth century. In contrast to their immediate European antecedents in Tibet, Huc and Gabet were not interested in trade or politics. They came in search of converts and, to this extent, belong to a much earlier tradition of pioneers. ... Though charged with the same zeal for conversions, Huc and Gabet showed none of the bigotry of their clerical predecessors. They were willing to conform to Tibetan ways, to seek out common ground in matters of doctrine and ritual, and to acknowledge piety in whatever guise. ... But what sets… Read More

(Cape Town, The Specialty Press of S. Africa, 1931.). . . . with 57 coloured plates and chart. Original brown cloth, pp. (xi) + 239, colour plates. Attractive gilt-on-red morocco bookplate of C.S. Barlow on front pastedown endpaper, causing foxing on front free endpaper and title-page. Some browning, edges a little foxed. .

(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau / Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1997) 0798136588. 4to; original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 191, incl. index; liberally illustrated in full colour with examples of the artists' work. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper, endpapers and top edge. Very good condition. "The aim of Land and Lives is to explore urban art created by early black artists in South Africa. In spite of the history of this period, one of conflict and deprivation, they claimed a place with pencil, pen, brush or chisel. This remarkable study is an invaluable contribution to the art history of South Africa and pays homage to the artists' creative power." .

(Cape Town: Penguin, 2018) 9781776092857. 233 x 154 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 312; plates. Fine condition. "An enthralling account of the first black lawyers and their battles to find a just, liberal order for all people in South Africa. I cannot remember any book in recent times that broadened my understanding of white-black relations so comprehensively and incisively." - Hermann Giliomee .

(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1975) 0869781200. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 192; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn, spine panel sunned; trace of foxing; faint tape marks to free endpapers. Very good condition. The story of Namaqualand in South Africa's arid Northern Cape, bordering Namibia. .

(Pietermaritzburg: the author, 1977). 210 x 155 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. 71; frontispiece portrait and photographs. Revised edition. Very good condition. The author gives a brief overview of South African history, as well as a discussion of South African politics at the time, his view being anti-National Party. There are also chapters dealing with the final dispossession of Zulu territory and the Tsetse fly in Zululand. .

(London: Faber and Faber, 1961). First edition. 8vo; original yellow cloth, lettered in blue on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 184. Dustwrapper edgeworn, a little foxed, and partially tanned; edges, endpapers and outermost leaves somewhat foxed. Good condition. (Hackett, p. 256) "Smiles was a renowned game warden in old Bechuanaland who managed to effectively carry out his duties in spite of the loss of an arm. There are numerous hunts after Cape buffalo, lion, giraffe, and other game." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 .

(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 2nd impression, 1979). Pictorial dustwrapper, a little rubbed and with short tear, pictorial endpapers, pp. 192, plates. Edges of boards very slightly fishmothed, edges of leaves very slightly foxed, gift inscription on the half-title page. .

(Cape Town, 1907). Wraps, pp. (vii) + 68. Wraps sunned, edges of wraps frayed, text browned as usual. Unopened. The poet was born at St. Peter's, Jersey, Channel Islands in 1879 and came to South Africa in 1901. He was the most prominent founder member of The Veldsingers' Club, founded early in 1908. (Miller & Sergeant, A critical survey of South African poetry). .

(London, Arthur Barker, 1954). Translated from the French by M.A. Michael. Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, with slight loss, original cloth, pp. 175, plates. Endpapers, preliminary pages and margins foxed. Upper Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia. .

(Pretoria: Ministry of the Interior, 1940). 276 x 178 mm; original printed wrappers; pp. xi + (i) + 242. Contents penned to remnant of backstrip; wrappers somewhat worn and soiled; hand-stamp of earlier owner (H. J. M. Guest of Klerksdorp) to upper cover; some foxing to edges. Good. Afrikaans text. Study of the institution of magistrates and justices of the peace in the Cape of Good Hope between the years 1682 and 1827. .