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1974 first edition hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. R46 postage in SA.  378 pages.

1974 first edition hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. R50 postage in SA.  378 pages.

1972 hardcover with dust jacket and 370 pages in good condition. Name in ink in front. R50 postage in SA.

Paperback. Solidly bound and clean inside. Published 1985 with 256 pages, describing 142 aircraft with 247 illustrations. Name of previous owner on inside of front page. Postage in RSA = R55.00. We combine postage.  

1972 hardcover with dust jacket and 370 pages in good condition. Name in ink in front. R60 postage in SA.

Paperback. Solidly bound and clean inside. Published 1985 with 256 pages, describing 142 aircraft with 247 illustrations. Name of previous owner on inside of front page. Postage in RSA = R60.00. We combine postage.  

1972 hardcover with dust jacket and 370 pages in good condition. Name in ink in front. R65 postage in SA.

  S.A.A.F Commando Observer Half Wing - Printed on thin cloth. It is in an unused condition.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Pat Barker returns to the First World War in "Toby's Room", a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, "Toby's Room" is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. "Toby's Room" is Pat Barker's most powerful novel yet. Pat Barker was born in . Her books include the highly acclaimed "Regeneration" trilogy, comprising "Regeneration", which has been filmed, "The Eye in the Door", which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and "The Ghost Road", which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the "Observer's" list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels "Another World", "Border Crossing", "Double Vision", "Life Class", and "Toby's Room". She lives in Durham. Features Summary When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth... Author Pat Barker Publisher Penguin Books Release date Pages 263 ISBN ISBN

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  Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 224pp., list of illustrations. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece. Within the text there are another 7 black and white photographs. Maroon coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Corners of the book are bumped and rubbed and shelf wear evident to the top and bottom book edges. Illustrated dust wrapper, showing men in silhouettes with guards with a black, white and red background, with white and black writing on the front panel and white on the spine. The author spent two and a half years as a prisoner of war during Korea conflict. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military History -- Prisoner- of- War; Military History -- Korean War;

Condition: Good. Name of previous owner on flyleaf. Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent’s remote interior and is selling sundries – little more than this and that, really – to the natives. This spot, this ‘bend in the river’, is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author’s most potent works – a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. ‘Brilliant and terrifying’ -- Observer. ‘Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.’ -- Elizabeth Hardwick. ‘Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit’ -- John Updike. About the author () V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in . He went to England on a scholarship in . After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Condition: Good. Name of previous owner on flyleaf. The Ghost Road is the final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE. , the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation... The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize-winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War. 'An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' --Jonathan Coe. 'Powerful, deeply moving' -- Barry Unsworth, Sunday Times. 'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' -- Independent. 'A triumph' -- Sunday Times. Pat Barker was born in . Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which has been filmed, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class, and Toby's Room. She lives in Durham.

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs. "As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care as to which might be the most direct route". (Observer). Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's personal record of his north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. It is a documentary fiction, seeking to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges. It is a message in a bottle, chucked into the flood of the future. "An explosion of literary fireworks". (Peter Ackroyd, The Times). "Gloriously sprawling, wonderfully congested, one of the finest books about London in recent decades". (Daily Telegraph). "Sinclair adopts the roles of pedestrian, pilgrim and poet, magnificently illuminating the borough's historical and spiritual life". (The Times). "Remarkable, compelling, bristles with unexpected, frequently lurid life. On Sinclair's territory there's nobody to touch him...a gonzo Samuel Pepys". (Sunday Times). Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire, and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances. Features Summary Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary fiction seeks to capture the spirit of place... Author Iain Sinclair Publisher Penguin Books Release date Pages 592 ISBN ISBN

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Dispatched within 2 business days. Our books are protected with a removable plastic cover and sent with care. Condition: Good. From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow, and the intertwining of myth and reality, of storytelling and experience, lead her through her own particular darkness. A story of mutability, talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way into the most secret recesses of our own hearts and minds. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation, and this shows her at her lyrical best. PRAISE FOR LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING Hypnotic... Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language. -THE NEW YORKER A luminous retelling of the Tristan-Isolde legend and an account of the grown-up Silver's pursuit of love... Winterson weaves a beautiful and coherent tapestry... She achieves a quality that justly can be called visionary. -LOS ANGELES TIMES 'The importance of stories, the urge to create ourselves through stories, is one of Winterson's abiding themes, along with the supremacy, the redemptive power of love.' Daily Telegraph 'A marvelously skilful juggling act of ideas and emotion... Winterson's prodigious talent brings the book alive.' Evening Standard 'The power of Lighthousekeeping is in... the pared-down precision of its language, each word smoothed into a finely polished pebble.' Observer About the author  () Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel. Since then, she has published seven other novels, including Lighthousekeeping, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The Powerbook, a collection of short stories, The World and Other Places, a books of essays, Art Objects, and most recently a children's picture book, The King of Capri. She has adapted her work for TV, film, and stage. Her books are published in thirty-two countries. She lives in Oxfordshire and London. Bibliographic information Title Lighthousekeeping Author Jeanette Winterson Publisher Fourth Estate, ,   Hardback,   1st ed. ISBN , Length 232 pages Subjects Fiction  ›  Romance Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature . A respected midwife, Gugu combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. After a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling, she throws herself into enforcing China's draconian new family planning policy by any means necessary. Her blind devotion to the party line spares no one, not her own family, not even herself. Spanning the pre-revolutionary era and the country's modern-day consumer society, Mo Yan's taut and engrossing examination of Chinese society will be read for generations to come. "Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have". (Amy Tan). "One of China's leading writers...his work rings with refreshing authenticity". (Time). "His idiom has the spiralling invention and mytho-maniacal quality of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie". (Observer). Mo Yan was born in in Gaomi County in Shandong province, China. He is the author of various novellas and short stories and numerous novels including Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and The Garlic Ballads. In he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Howard Goldblatt is the award-winning translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese into English. He has been awarded the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translation Association and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Features Summary A respected midwife, Gugu combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. After a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling... Author Mo Yan (Author), Howard Goldblatt (Translator) Publisher Hamish Hamilton Release date Pages 400 ISBN ISBN

Condition: Good. Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. The fourth volume of her enthralling autobiography finds Maya Angelou immersed in the world of black writers and artists in Harlem, working in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King. Maya Angelou has... achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve.... What makes [her] writing unique is... a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity. -The Washington Post Book World To say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature. -The Voice Angelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography. -The New York Times About the author () Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April in Saint Louis, Missouri. She attended public school in Stamps, Arkansas and San Francisco, California. She is perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical work "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", and for the tireless effort she puts forth to make the world aware. In her youth, Angelou traveled the world, eventually marrying a South African freedom fighter and settling in Cairo, where she edited The Arab Observer, the only English language weekly newspaper in the Middle East. They later moved to Ghana where she was Features Editor of The African Review and taught at the University of Ghana. In the 60's, Dr, Martin Luther King requested that Angelou return to the US to become the northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She was later appointed to the Bicentennial Commission by President Ford and to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year by President Carter. "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in . Ten years later, in , Angelou was appointed to the lifetime position of Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. Angelou became only the second poet in United States history to write and recite an original poem at a Presidential Inauguration; in she read "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's Inauguration Ceremony. In , Angelou received an amazing amount of honors. Her semi-autobiographical tale, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", which was originally published in , became the longest running nonfiction best seller by an African American on the New York Times Bestsellers List. That same year, "A Brave and Startling Truth" was recited at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the United Nations, and "From a Black Woman to a Black Man" was recited at the Million Man March in Washington D. C.. Angelou is best known, however, for the five books of her autobiography, beginning with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (), which she adapted for television, through "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" (). Angelou's collection of essays entitled "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" was published in . She has assumed the roles of poet, educator, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director. Angelou had also appeared in the movie "Roots" and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in for her role in the movie. She also had a role in the movie, "How to Make an American Quilt" and wrote and produced "Afro-Americans in the Arts", a PBS special for which she received a Golden Eagle Award. She is the author of 11 best selling books. Her title Mom and Me and Mom made The New York Times Best Seller List in .

By Ian Knight. 2001. Hard cover with dust cover; 290 pages. Very good condition; as new. Under 1kg. On the afternoon of 1 June 1879, in a muddy gully in the heart of Zululand, the ambitions of France's Bonaparte dynasty came to a tragic and violent end. A patrol of British troops, in the vanguard of an invading column, was ambushed by the Zulu, and fled, leaving three men dead on the field. Among them was Prince Louis Napoleon, the exiled heir to the Imperial throne in France, the last of the Bonapartes. What curious combination of circumstances had brought the Prince Imperial to southern Africa, wearing the uniform of - of all things - a British office? His was a romantic and melancholy story. Chased out of France after the debacle of the Franco-Prussian War, the Emperor Napoleon III had sought refuge with his family in England, where they were befriended by Queen Victoria. Napoleon's son, Louis, had grown to manhood in exile, succeeding on his father's death to the title of Napoleon IV, and awaiting a call to reclaim his throne, which might never have come. Raised in the shadow of the reputation of the great Napoleon, he hungered for military glory, and by special dispensation was allowed to train as a British officer. As a foreign Prince, however, and a Bonaparte, there was never any hope that he might serve in the British army, but when the Anglo-Zulu War broke out in 1879 he was allowed to go to Africa as an observer, attached to General Lord Chelmsford's staff. The war seemed to offer him the perfect chance for military experience without European political repercussions, and with a minimum of danger. This was not to be.   

Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Bloomsbury () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. Cover a little rubbed. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 142 Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.1 cm +++ by Nadine Gordimer +++ Liz Van Sant's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his collegues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? But above all, can she afford not to? "Gordimer has earned herself a place among the few novelists who really matter" - Observer.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith   by Donald Macdonald 1999 - 289 pages Hard Cover in Good Condition.A Covos Books Anglo-Boer War Centenary Edition Excerpt from How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith In this book I have attempted no specialist's description of the siege and battles of Ladysmith, but have given just the every-day impressions and sensations of an observer to whom war, with all its thrilling incidents and vivid colour, was a new and strange experience. It is not so much a history of the siege as a story of the siege written while the events were fresh in the mind. In a calm retrospective view much might be added, much omitted, but the complete military history of Ladysmith may be left to the historian and the expert. Without being consciously in error, I have sought to give the reader some idea of the moods and colour of the time. In the multiplicity of names there may be some confusion; thus I have spoken of the fight at Rietfontein as Tinta Inyoni, and of Wagon Hill as Caesar's Hill, since local opinion always differed as to which was correct. With a full appreciation of the patriotism and pride of race which has made Australasia a fighting unit in the British Empire, I dedicate this book to my fellow-countrymen who took part in the South African Campaign.  

Author: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Publisher: Bloomsbury () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Fine Binding: Hardcover Pages: 415 Dimensions: 25.3 x 19.3 x 3.7  cm +++ by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall +++ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes there are very good reasons to eat more vegetables - they're healthy, cost-effective and, above all, delicious. In River Cottage Veg Every Day, he's come up with over 200 veg-tastic recipes. This will be an excellent addition to your cook book library. Winner of Best Cookbook at the Observer Food Monthly Awards.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

The Quiet American is a terrifying portrait of innocence at large.  While the French army  in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel Economic Aid to a 'Third Force'.  The narrator, a seasoned foreign correspondent, is forced to observe:  "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." As young Pyle's policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible to stand aside as an observer.  But his motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself: for Pyle has robbed him of his Annamite mistress. Soft cover, good condition.  The paper is slightly yellowed.  188 pages.

From Alexander Payne, the celebrated director of Sideways, comes Oscar-winning film that Rolling Stone calls “damn near perfect." Academy Award winner George Clooney “gives his best performance to date" (Philip French, The Observer) and newcomer “Shailene Woodley shines" (Total Film). Experience a bittersweet drama about a detached father's attempt to reconnect with his two daughters and their often-hilarious quest for the truth in this “beautifully observed and brilliantly acted comedy drama" (Sunday Express).

  Published: Ernst Siegfried Mitter un Sohn Berlin 1893 Aus veranlassung des Koniglichen regiments bearbeitet von Hufler Cover: Decorative hardcover Condition to an average observer: Decorative hardcover with motif on the front. Decorative folio pages.   Very slight browning of the pages The book is in an incredible book condition considering it's age.  

  Published: Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C.Jack Year: 1901 Cover: Decorative Hard cover Condition to an average observer: Good The folio pages has foxing in the front and back of the book Pages: In six volumes: From the occupation of Pretoria to Mr, Kruger's departure from South Africa with a condensed account of the guerilla war to March 1901 Combined Weight: 6,35 kg   Important Notice Conditions of sale apply: Under all circumstances, contact us first via the question and answer box to ascertain the following before placing your order or making payment: availability of the item, price and method of posting: i.e. PostNet to PostNet, Courier Service, Post Office or otherwise. Wait for the confirmation e-mail or answer