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An attractive box set of five bestselling books, published in paperback for the first time. Pack includes: - First 100 Words - First 100 Animals - First 100 Trucks and Things That Go - First 100 Numbers - First 100 Colours, ABC, Numbers. AUTHOR INFORMATION Roger Priddy's passion for educating children through fun, informative and engaging books has led him to create some of publishing's most enduring and successful non-fiction early learning books. Roger lives in London with his three children, who have been the inspiration behind many of his best publishing ideas. This product ships within 3-5 working days.

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About the product Brenthurst Second Series, number 2. Standard edition limited to 850 copies. Large 4to; original crimson cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; tinted top edge; silk markers; pp. 275 + (i), incl. index; several reproductions of contemporary illustrations, in monochrome and full colour. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A few fox spots to fore-edge, else fine."The name of John Blades Currey (1829-1904) is seldom mentioned in histories of southern Africa. Indeed, the young Englishman who arrived at the Cape in 1850 made little direct impact on its story. He was nonetheless to become a profound influence on some of the Cape's most famous men and an astute chronicler of the political and social events of his time. His memoirs, published here for the first time, cover half a century of Cape history, from 1850 to 1900. Soldiering, farming, copper-mining - Currey tried all these; then, on the advice of governor Sir George Grey he joined the Cape civil service. While in its employ in the late 1860s he was entrusted with the task of introducing to a sceptical Europe southern Africa's first diamond, the'Eureka'. Later, as secretary to the government of Griqualand West, he chose the new name of' Kimberley 'for the burgeoning diamond-fields town of New Rush. But in 1875 Currey was blamed for the diggers'rebellion there, and this led to his dismissal from office and blighted his subsequent public career. While he was in Kimbeley Currey befriended two young fortune-hunters, both of whom were to become renowned premiers of the Cape: Cecil John Rhodes and John X. Merriman. To both of them Currey was to remain a lifelong friend and counsellor.. He is revealed in the account not as a politician but as a man who helped to shape politicians, not as a man who made history but rather as one who was passionately part of it. The manuscript forms part of The Brenthurst Collection, as do the majority of the contemporary illustrations which complement the text." Books: John Blades Currey 1850 to 1900: Fifty Years in the Cape Colony

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

About the product 400 x 290 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. xiv + 157, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs; map. Trace of foxing to edges. Near-fine condition."The War Reporter is an imaginary newspaper. There was no single Republican or Boer newspaper that was published on either a daily, weekly or monthly basis for the whole duration of the Anglo-Boer War. The'editor','reporters'and'correspondents'of The War Reporter never actually existed. The aim was to publish an account of the course of the war in its totality - meaning not merely the military confrontations. The format represents the way in which the war could have been reported in a pro-Boer weekly newspaper (monthly from September 1900), published in the South African Republic as the war progressed. One of the most formidable challenges that face historians is to understand the zeitgeist or atmosphere of the period they write about. The same is true for readers of history books. A failure to understand the situation at the time makes it virtually impossible to understand the major events, the decisions taken by the major participants, the reactions of the ordinary people and the contradictions of the past in the context in which they occurred. This was my biggest challenge as I attempted to portray the world and the views of the Boers as the Anglo-Boer War progressed. The book is first and foremost an attempt to answer the question: how did the Boers experience the Anglo-Boer War?"- Author's Introduction. Books: The War Reporter. The Anglo-Boer War through the eyes of the Burghers

About the product 8vo; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 270, incl. index; maps; plates. Very good condition."Georges, Comte de Villebois-Mareuil, had in fact been the youngest Colonel in the French Army and had commanded its Foreign Legion in Algeria. Roy Macnab's book is the first in English to trace the complicated circumstances and motives that brought this dashing and romantic hero of French imperialism to fight and die in vain but valiantly, in action against the British in the Orange Free State." Books: The French Colonel. Villebois-Mareuil and the Boers 1899-1900

About the product Text facsimile of the Maskew Miller edition of 1952. 8vo; pictorial boards; endpaper map; pp. xiv + 310, incl. index; plates; folding genealogical table; line drawings in text. Tipped in on the half-title is a ticket for the"Malagas Pontoon"issued by the Swellendam Divisional Council (the hand-operated pont at Malgas on the Breede River is the last of its kind in South Africa). Near fine condition."In the heyday of the old Cape Dutch civilization they spoke of the coastland east of the Hottentot Holland mountains as the Overberg. This'new Canaan', as Lady Anne Barnard called it, is described by Dr Burrows as'one of the richest repositories of our national heritage'. The success of the first printing of this book many years ago proves his claim. The history of the Swellendam Drostdy, the short-lived Swellendam republic, the birth and development of sheep farming, glimpses of the lovely old homesteads, and the families who owned them, Van Bredas, Van Reenens, Reitzes, Moodies; the story of the fabulous Barry empire, the lost seaports; all these are revealed in a book that is not only for the collector and historian but for all who enjoy a good story and glimpses of an intriguing, romantic past." Books: Overberg Outspan. A Chronicle of People and Places in the South Western Districts of the Cape

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."

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."

About the product First softcover. very good++ with no inscriptions. wraps are lightly rubbed. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

About the product 1st English-language edition. 8vo; original orange cloth, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 124 + (ii). Dustwrapper a little edgeworn, sunned on spine panel, with trace of foxing; earlier owner's name signed in pencil on front free endpaper; sporadic foxing. Good to very good condition."This work, mainly about the habits of and adventures with baboons, is a translation of articles written in Afrikaans by the late Eugène Nielen Marais (the author of The Soul of the White Ant). The articles appeared originally in Die Vaderland. Subsequently collected and arranged by Dr. M. S. B. Kritzinger, they were published in book form under the title Burgers van die Berge, by J. L. van Schaik Ltd., of Pretoria. These chapters in popular vein are but sparks from the anvil on which the author had been fashioning for years a more detailed and scientific work, The Soul of the Ape, the final manuscript of which has unfortunately been lost. A small portion of the first draft of The Soul of the Ape has, however, been included."

About the product First edition. both book and jacket are near very fine. the jacket is not torn, and the book has no inscriptions. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

About the product First edition. 8vo; original grey pictorial cloth, lettered in blue on spine and upper cover; pp. 143; line drawings by D. Ogilvie. Spine somewhat cocked; cloth a touch rubbed; a little foxing. Good condition. Afrikaans text. (Nienaber I, p. 267) Uncommon. Besides some examples held by South African repositories, OCLC finds only the British Library copy. The charming story of a circus escapee, Ogus the baboon, who is able to speak to the children Lettie and Hennie, who become his friends.