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  Cape Drives Hope, C   Item Description: London Magazines Edition, London, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 50 pp.Spine of the dust-jacket, faded. A copy of the Author's first book that won the Thomas Pringle Prize and the Cholmondeley Award. Very good with minimal shelf wear. The following information is taken from the Contemporary Writers website. Christopher Hope's poems were first published in Whitewashes (1971), but his first significant publication was Cape Drives (1974), which won the Thomas Pringle Prize and a Cholmondeley Award. His published poetry also includes In the Country of the Black Pig (1981) and Englishmen (1985). His first novel, A Separate Development (1981), was banned in South Africa. A rich, comic satire of the apartheid system, it won the David Higham Prize for Fiction. His other novels include Kruger's Alp (1984), which won the Whitbread Novel Award; The Hottentot Room (1986), set in a London drinking club, a home from home for South African exiles; and My Chocolate Redeemer (1989), the story of an unlikely friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an exiled dictator. More recent novels include Serenity House (1992), a black comedy set in an old people's home in London, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Darkest England (1996). Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Black Boards + Gilt Spine. Jacket: Very Good +. Bookseller Inventory # 00740 Tall  Stories  Price: R 250.00 Ordinary  postage  within  South  Africa: R 40.00

Cape Landscapes: Sir John Herschel's Sketches 1834-1838 Hard Cover First Edition 2006 In 1834, Sir John Herschel, perhaps the most celebrated astronomer of his time, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope to spend four years observing the southern sky. Among his many other talents he was an accomplished artist, skilled in the use of an optical device known as a camera lucida. During these four years Herschel produced more than a hundred exquisite landscape sketches, some depicting the Feldhausen estate in the suburb of Wynberg, where he and his family lived, others meticulously recording scenes that enlivened his trips to Cape Point, to Table Mountain, to Hout Bay and to places in the farther reaches. Among the latter were Caledon, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch and Paarl. These Herschel landscape drawings are an almost unmatched contribution to the artistic and historical record of the Cape in the early nineteenth century. They are reproduced in this title, together with a narrative text and background material that firmly set the illustrations in their social and geographical context. The result is an evocative picture of the Cape Peninsula and its environs at a time when they were still largely wild, but beginning to develop agriculturally and culturally in directions that culminated in the late Victorian period Cape Landscapes UCT Press A compilation of Sir John Herschel’s camera lucida landscape sketches (1834–1838). These drawings, together with a narrative text and background are an almost unmatched contribution to the artistic and historical record of the Cape in the early nineteenth century.

Cape Town: City of Good Hope First Edition   Heavy book over a Kilo Pack and post R55. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.  I send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number. Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. For Book Condition see images below. Please quote Username or order number when making a payment      

Cape Town Triennial 1991 - Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation A first edition softcover published by Rembrandt in 1991 Picture cover boards are clean & bright, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, an as new copy Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #

Volume 2 1971. Hard  cover with dust cover, 527 pages. Very good condition. Over 1kg. Compiled and translated by R.Raven-Hart During the first fifty years of Dutch colonisation at the Cape of Good Hope many travellers arrived in Table Bay, on their way to the East:some came voluntarily, others by force of circumstance.   They came ashore, looked around, observed strange,indigenous people, interesting plants and animals, they visited the little settlement, met the local personalities, wondered at the way-of-life. They also consulted and negotiated with the Dutch officials, and sought help in their difficulties.   And, most frequently, they recorded their impressions so as to inform and astonish their firneds in Europe with the wonders they had seen. These impressions were sometimes published; but more often they appeared in ships' log books and other mss, unpublished, and available to the researchers of today in archives and special liabraries only.   Such recorded impressions are the subject matter of this book: Major Raven-Hart has selected, transcribed and meticulously translated a total of 104 accounts by visitors to the Cape between 1652 and 1702. They are taken from the original Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Danish and German; with one exception, the list is exhaustive for this period.   The language styles are varied; quaint and vivid, penetrating, and sometimes quite coarse.   To accompany the transcribed texts, and to help the reader enjoy and understand, Major Raven-Hart has provided background and context notes to describe contemporary happenings in Europe, official records by the Cape commanders and governors and biographical notes on the writers.   In the index the reader will find references to animals, plants, persons, names, etc; a glossary of foreign words, definitions of various sea-faring and navigational terms and expressions; identifications of flora and fauna, bibliographies; and explanatory notes. This index is not just a valuable and practical working tool-it is virtually a concentrated commpanion-book or vade mecum for late 17th C history of the Cape.   A feature of this book are the illustrations: the author has been able to find 65 engravings, maps, title pages, portraits-most of which have been reproduced as full-or double-pages.      

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1977. large hard cover with dust cover,  184  pages. Very good condition. The dust cover has a tear. Rust spots in front and back. Over 1kg. Told in narrative anecdote and illustration, History of Cape Town and the Cape of South Africa from the first explorers, first settlers landing at Algoa Bay in 1820, merchants, buildings to the Anglo-Boer War etc.  

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 Paperback in mint condition. As new! First Edition and First print 2007. 223 pages From Mandela to Theroux on the Mother City. It is a compilation of stories about Cape Town by some of South Africa's most prominent people, writers, poets and the like. Some of the contributors... just to whet your appetite: J M Coetzee, Nelson Mandela, Paul Theroux, Rian Malan, Jonny Steinberg, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Edwin Cameron, Breyten Breytenbach, Shaun Johnson... and more!!

  Author(s): Hilda Gerber  Title:      Cape Cookery Old and New  ISBN: none  Publisher/place: Howard B. Timmins, Cape Town  This Edition:  third edition  Year of Publication: 1955 First Published: 1950  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: none, missing  Number of pages:  247  Weight: 454g  Condition:   Lovely old vintage book, though will need to be handled with care.  This is an ex-library book, and has stamps/markings etc.  Book has been rebound by the library  - faux half-leather and cloth.  Pages have browned with age, and some have tears.  As far as I can tell, no pages are missing, binding is still intact, though seems a bit fragile and will need to be handled carefully.  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.  

 In this short history, Peter will take you through the evolution of Cape Town harbour from Jan van Riebeeck's wooden jetty to the first safe haven for ships, the Alfred Basin Soft cover book with 45 pages 

Hardback. English. Balkema. 1971. In fair condition. The First Fifty Years of Dutch Colonization. Information on the Cape during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, where the author visited at length on several occasions. SA History";"South African History

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First Edition. Recently rebound in fullbound burgundy mat bonded leather. Attractively foiled in gold on front cover and spine. New white endpapers. Original card boards bound in and binding strengthened on original front free endpaper inside edge with a strip of leather.Contents complete and unfoxed, clean with edgewear on a few leaves. Also has sections on the Free State, Transvaal, and Natal. Numerous sections of interest, including a street by street directory of the names of the occupant of each house in central Cape Town. 522 pages and index. In addition, copious contemporary advertisments at the front and back, including one for the Alfred Docks of Table Bay inside the front board. Published by Cape Town, Dennis Edwards and Co., 1887.