Pencil book

Buy All You Need Is A Pencil The Stuck In A Car, Plane, Or Train Activity Book By Joe Rhatigan for R352.00

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 128 pages plus advertising (complete). A resolute copy of this book of energetic, hearty Victorian verse set in South Africa. Recased retaining original boards. New spine and end papers. The boards are tanned, worn, stained all about. They are hale and sturdy. The pages are amiably vintage. The pages are rough trimmed, they are also a little tanned, worn from handling and storage. The pages are amenable, convivial, certain, very occasionally annotated in pencil, clean, clear, healthy, accepting of their age. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

About the product Publication of 235 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and small chipped pieces on the edges of the spine. The boards are in good condition. There are minor pencil annotations within the book, the text remains bright and clear. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.