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About the product Small 8vo; original paper over boards, with pictorial onlay and title label on spine, a little sunned, and slightly worn at extremities; past owner's hand stamp on front free endpaper; pp. viii + 108; some browning to endpapers; black-and-white plates. Good condition."The Cambridge undergraduate of to-day would hardly recognise his prototype of a hundred years ago, if the latter could be brought to life. The past century has wrought a vast change in his appearance, vernacular, sobriety, diversions, and general behaviour. We can congratulate ourselves, however, that a better type has been evolved, although we can still recognise to-day modified (and improved) specimens of the men who were in residence in the early twenties." Books: The Cambridge Undergraduate 100 Years Ago. Compiled, with Extracts and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources by Oskar Teichman D.S.O., M.C., M.A.
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About the product Signed by the author on inside of upper cover. Introduction by Roger Boyle. 210 x 148 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 80; line drawings by the author. Near fine condition."'This finely observed and moving collection'wrote Lord Lichfield of Paul Wigmore's previous book of verse, It's funny about the trees. And Penelope Betjeman said:'He is by far the best poet of the John Betjeman school'. Mr Wigmore has excelled himself in this major new collection, which he has also illustrated. It covers the first 21 years of his life, from short-trouser days in Harrow and Wealdstone, through long-trouser early working experiences in factory and shop, and on to his national service in the RAF. His ability to crystallise the pangs of suburban childhood, adolescence and early manhood has not been bettered. There is a sensitivity and honesty about this writing which will strike a chord in many readers."
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 54, incl. index; colour and monochrome photographs; line drawings; maps. Boards partially sunned; some fox spots. Very good condition. Basic introduction to the history and way of life of the region's oldest indigenous inhabitants.
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; original orange cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 89; line drawings. Cloth partially sunned and mottled; ownership inscription to front free endpaper; scattered, moderate foxing. Fair to good condition."This is not an autobiography in the usual sense but an attempt to show the influences in the life of a young South African of the first generation, in the period between the end of the Boer War and the outbreak of the first World War. Until 1914 I knew only the Cape Peninsula. These reminiscences, therefore, are of that narrow strip of land between Cape Town and Cape Point, separated from the mainland by the Cape Flats."
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product Publisher's presentation inscription to title page. 8vo; original brown boards; pictorial dustwrapper with later lamination; illustrated pastedowns; pp. (xii) + 171, incl. index; photographs and monochrome illustrations. Earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; loosely inserted press review of the book. Very good condition."I have. written the stories of my ancestors and my own reminiscences and have allowed myself to expand on those aspects which I believe to be of general interest and perhaps even amusement. In particular I have done my best to draw a pen picture of my beloved father, Eric Anderson Walker, as I knew him and his famous works. I have glossed over my own sadnesses and heartaches and extracted some of the more light-hearted anecdotes from the kaleidoscope of my life, referring'pari passu'to episodes in recent and contemporary History as they have impinged on me."
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About the product By the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, K.C.B., acting at the time of the Battle on the Quartermaster-General's staff of the Third Division of the Army. With a brief memoir of his life and services, and plan for the defence of Canada. 8vo; original red blind stamped cloth, fishmothed and soiled; backstrip brittle and missing piece at head; pp. iv + 199; text figure; folding map with two short tears; evidence of past exposure to damp on bottom margin of boards and on endpapers; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, and ownership inscription and hand-stamp on reverse of front free endpaper;"Contents"leaf working loose; scattered foxing. Fair condition only.
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product Number 89 of an edition limited to two hundred copies, signed by the author. 4to; quarter-leather deluxe binding, marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; tinted top edge; pp. (xiv) + 196, incl. index; colour plates after contemporary artwork; monochrome illustrations in text, from original photographs and artwork, with some sketches by the author. Very slightly shelf-rubbed. Very good to near-fine condition."Early explorers and settlers, courageous and eccentric personalities, trade, farming and enterprise, shipwrecks and frontier wars - this is the subject matter of the panorama of Port Elizabeth. The enthusiasm and conscientious scholarship of Eleanor Lorimer, regional historian of the social and cultural life of P.E., is manifest thorughout this absorbing book. Colonel Robert Gordon, Sir Rufane Donkin, Frederick Korsten, Captain Francis Evatt, Sophia Pigot, the Lovemore family - these are some of the names that feature in the early history of the region.. This rich and varied story is enlivened by a unique collection of illustrations: an extensive search was made for old photographs, with exciting results; there are reproductions of pictures by Daniell, Bowler, Baines, Huggins, and of engravings from contemporary issues of'Illustrated London News'and'Graphic'. The author herself has made wash drawings based on old photographs and Tony Grogan has contributed line illustrations of houses and monuments made especially for this edition."
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product Numbers 39 and 43 in the Van Riebeeck Society's First Series, the first volume covering 1850-1885, and the second dealing with 1885-1929. Two 8vo volumes, each of original pale cloth, lettered in navy to spine, with the Society's device blocked to upper cover; pp. xxviii + 221, incl. index, xi + (i) + 270, incl. index; plates; three maps overall, incl. folding. Merest trace of stippling to cloth; occasional fox spot. Very good condition."Sir Walter Stanford served for many years in the Native Affairs Department of the Cape Colony, retiring in 1907, when he began to write his memoirs. This first volume describes his youth, education at Lovedale College and his work in the Native Affairs Department during the 1870s, concluding with the Cape Native Laws and Customs Commission in 1881-3. Stanford's second volume of reminiscences records his life in Pondoland as chief magistrate, up to its annexation, the impact of the South African War, the creation of Ndabeni, Cape Town 's first location and the Native Affairs Commission of 1904."- The Van Riebeeck Society
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product The boards are a bit marked and worn. Internally clean and tightly bound. A few spots and mild damp damage. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product a little shelf rubbed. internally clean and tightly bound. as new. [P.N.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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MARLBOROUGH HIS LIFE AND TIMES by WINSTON S CHURCHILL Book One and Book Two; Book One; consisting of Volumes I and II of the original work and Book 2 consisting of Volumes; III and IV of the original work; Both Hardcover; Publisher; GEORGE G HARRAP & Co LTD. ; THIS EDITION IN TWO BOOKS; First Published 1947 REPRINTED 1949; 1955; This 2 book set; 1955 ; Volume 1 No. of Pages; 1049; Volume II ; 1078 Pages Condition; Please see the photographs below; Both books very good strong binding ;Slight crack between cover and book both books - please see the last photograph ; front and back - but no weakening of the binding. No tears . One name inside the cover, POSTAGE / Shipping (within S A) PREFERABLY via Postnet to Postnet for a total weight not exceeding 5kg then add R100.00. (Note with the P/Net option addit books may be included up to 5kg) or via PAXI which is via the PEP Store branch network - delivery around 9 days Please add R55.00 under Option 1 and also add " via Pep " in the Notes. For postage via SA PO (please add under option 1) please add R65.00 due to size / weight. Collection can be arranged for Pietermaritzburg / Hilton or Howick (no shipping cost) Buyers from outside of SA can request a Postal quotation.
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An engaging storybook and toy in one activity kit! My Busy Books offer full-page illustrations, a story, 12 figurines, and a playmat that bring the characters to life and ignite your childs imagination. This product ships within 3-5 working days.
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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Phillips Payson O'Brien Publisher Dutton Books Release date 20190507 Pages 544 ISBN 0-399-58480-3 ISBN 13 978-0-399-58480-0
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Struik Christian Books, 2010. VG PB, as new. An examination of how the tragic martyrdom of 16 white members of the Community of Reconciliation impacted on Zimbabwean society. 331 pp.
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product Number 185 of an edition of 360 copies printed. Two volumes, original cloth, gilt-decorative upper boards, unevenly faded and slightly marked, pp. xvi + 446 + (1: colophon); pp. xi + 511 + (1: colophon); photogravure portraits as frontispieces, numerous illustrations in the text, photogravure plates, facsimile letters. Hinges slightly tender, all edges uncut, slight foxing on endpapers, edges and plates. The life and letters of John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy; By his son; John Guille Millais; with 310 illustrations in the text, 24 photogravure plates and facsimile letters. (Books)
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; half calf; spine ornately gilt; marbled boards, edges and endpapers; pp. xxxii + 495, incl. index. A little rubbing to extremities; bookplate of the Hon. Sir James Liege Hulett on front pastedown. Very good condition. James Liege Hulett (born in Sheffield, England, 1838; died in Durban on 5 June 1928), pioneer of the Natal tea and sugar industries, was prominent in the political life of the colony both before and after responsible government, to which he had been opposed."On the death of Sir Henry Binns he was elected speaker of the Natal legislative assembly and in that capacity he attended, in 1902, the coronation ceremonies in England and was knighted."- DSAB I p. 395.
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About the product Being letters and diaries preserved by Mrs J. F. Slater (Sarah Ann Bland) at Carnarvon Dale on the Bushman's River and edited by her granddaughter Rosalind Slater. 220 x 150 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. (ii) + 109; photographs. Vertical crease to upper wrap; some moderate foxing; pencilled genealogical tables inside wraps; a little underlining. Very good overall."Sarah Ann Slater kept letters, and several hundred from relations and friends fill the old campaign chest at Carnarvon Dale. We are printing in several booklets some of these letters, which include those written to each other by Sarah and her husband John Slater, and those of the Bonnin sisters and the Blands. The children of John and Sarah wrote home from schools, the Diamond Fields in the 1870's, Johannesburg in the 1880's and 1890's, from Rhodesia 1890, on service during the Boer War and from England. There are also numbers of letters from their grandchildren and from their relatives, the Parkers, Blands, Wilmots, Hobsons, Berringtons and Slaters."- editor's introduction. The letters provide a clear window in the life of an extended 1820 Settler family.
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product 8vo; original brown boards; pictorial dustwrapper; illustrated pastedowns; pp. (xii) + 171, incl. index; photographs and monochrome illustrations. Name signed on title page; trace of fishmothing to dustwrapper; a little spotting to edges. Very good condition."I have. written the stories of my ancestors and my own reminiscences and have allowed myself to expand on those aspects which I believe to be of general interest and perhaps even amusement. In particular I have done my best to draw a pen picture of my beloved father, Eric Anderson Walker, as I knew him and his famous works. I have glossed over my own sadnesses and heartaches and extracted some of the more light-hearted anecdotes from the kaleidoscope of my life, referring'pari passu'to episodes in recent and contemporary History as they have impinged on me."
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product First edition. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 166. Dustwrapper partially sunned and rubbed; some wear to edges of boards and tail of spine; occasional fox spot. Good condition."Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling."
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About the product These are the first two volumes in the'African Hunting Reprint Series.'Text facsimile reprint of the two-volume John Murray 2nd edition of 1850, with a new introduction by Professor James A. Casada. Two 8vo volumes; original brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt elephant device to upper board in each case; pictorial dustwrappers; pp. xvii + xv + (i) + 388, (iv) + 381; plates, + route map in first volume. Dustwrappers slightly rubbed and edgeworn; a little foxing to endpapers, edges and reverse of dustwrappers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition.'A particularly fine example of Victorian sporting literature, the book was markedly successful and ran to many editions. Gordon-Cumming writes of his hunting expedition which started from Grahamstown in October 1843 and which took him through countryside teeming with game -"not with herds, but with'one vast herd'of springboks; as far as the eye could strain."- to the Orange River and Griqualand West where he met Oswell, and, at Kuruman, Robert Moffat and, soon after, David Livingstone. He appears to have hunted every species of South African fauna and to have indulged himself in the sport to an extent almost unique even amongst the mighty hunters of Africa. The narrative is valuable for its description of the country and its inhabitants, and for its zoological and botanical notes.'
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South Africa (All cities)
About the product The boards are slightly rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound. One smudge. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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