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 First Afrikaans Edition, Tafelberg-Uitgewers (EDMS.) BPK, Kaapstad, 1999.   Paperback, illustrated card covers, Rear covers corners are lightly bumped, has a scratch across the top of the rear cover. Translated from the original 1959 edition into Afrikaans by M.C.E. Van Schoor, with explanations. A very good copy of this Africana.  

First Edition, Afrikaanse pers-boekhandel, Johannesburg, 1945. Hard Cover, Grey/pale blue, papered boards, boards are bumped and chipped with minor loss, some soiling and fading to the boards, spine is chipped with some loss, and some minor tears, black title and author to spine, spine is faded. Ffep has a previous owners name. Title page is printed with "A. P. Sakbiblioteek Nr. 68." Binding is firm text blox is clean, a few pages have curling of corners. Remarkably, the original invoice from the publishers is still intact loosely within. Dust Jacket is present, with an illustrated front wrap, dust jacket is chipped with minor loss, has some soiling and staining.

Hardback. English. Scott, Greenwood & Son. 1901. In fair/good condition. First edition (hardback). 8vo, viii, 114pp. 32 illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine.

  The Unknown Van Gogh, by Schoeman, Chris (OUT OF PRINT NEW)   ISBN: 9781770227910 ISBN  9781770227910 Format  Trade Paperback Recommended Price  R230.00 Published  June 2015 About the book:  Much has been written about Vincent van Gogh and his tempestuous relationship with his brother Theo. But few people know that there was a third Van Gogh brother, Cornelis, who was raised in the Netherlands, but worked, married and died in South Africa.   The son of a Protestant minister, Cor spent his youth in a series of small Dutch towns, with idyllic holidays walking in the countryside with his artist brother, before troubles and tragedies beset the Van Gogh family. In 1889, the twenty-two-year-old Cor sailed to South Africa, where he worked as an engineer on the gold mines and on the railways. In the Anglo-Boer War he joined the Boers, first as a railway engineer and later on commando in the Free State, where in 1900 he suffered a fate that echoed his famous brother’s tragic end.   The Unknown Van Gogh  recreates South Africa in the tumultuous last decade of the nineteenth century; reconstructs the personal story of a young immigrant from letters and other archival documents; and explores his relationship with his famous brother Vincent. With new  insights based on original research, this book uncovers a figure who has been forgotten by history.  

Hardback. Afrikaans. Nasionale Pers. 1935. ISBN: N/A. 312pp. Small squarish 8vo; original grey cloth, lettered in black on spine, with black letters and cannon device to upper cover; pp. (viii) + 312; two portrait plates. First Edition. In good condition. Very good, clean copy. (Nienaber I, p. 254) "At the battle of Tabanyama (20.1.1900), a prologue to the battle of Spioenkop (24.1.1900), Slegtkamp won special recognition. When the burghers evacuated a hill in the Tabanyama mountain range after a heavy bombardment, and the right flank of the Boers was exposed, Slegtkamp and two fellow scouts, Albert de Roos and Jack Hindon, climbed the hill on their own initiative and subjected the left flank of the British soldiers to heavy fire. Under the impression that the hill was strongly garrisoned, the British soldiers retreated. The morale of the other burghers now being strengthened, they reoccupied the hill. Thus the way was paved for the brilliant victory at Spioenkop four days later.... Throughout his life he supported the republican ideal and in the late thirties he joined the Ossewa-Brandwag, of which, despite his advanced age, he was an active member, later becoming general-in-chief on the Highveld. He spent his last years peacefully in his home town, Middlelburg. Slegtkamp was short and thin. Restless and at times quick-tempered, he was nevertheless a fearless man who, although he could not easily adapt to peace conditions, identified himself completely with the fate of his adopted country. Book No: 2500292

    I have to considerably decrease my own personal library. Here I offer   Anthony Bannister Wilde diere van Suid-Afrika   Johannesburg 1989, derde druk, hard cover, large format,  illustrations, 112 pages, original dust jacket, dedication on first free page, otherwise in excellent antiquarian condition     Buy bulk to save on postage. Kindly have a look to my related books on Africana South West Africa (Südwestafrika, Suid-Wes Afrika), SWA, DOA, German East Africa, ZAR, National Party, vryheidsoorlog, Rhodesia, Verwoerd, Vorster, Botha, ANC, SACP, Mandela, terrorism, apartheid, BBB, bush war, RLI SAS bush War Zambia Kariba AWB HNP  

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.

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. Fore-corners a little turned; trace of fishmothing to cloth; a little wear to extremities; endpapers and page edges somewhat browned; occasional fox spot. 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.

First Edition, Tafelberg-Uitgewers Beperk, Cape Town. 1971. Hard cover, black cloth boards white title and author along the spine,spine is bumped. Ffep has the remains of a previous owners book-plate which has been partially removed, front and rear paste downs have sticky tape residue as does the front and rear foldovers of the dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped along the spine. Translated by Gerrit J. Van Der Merwe, from the original "Das Vergessene Dorf". A very good copy.

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 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 Edited by L. A. Hewson and F. G. van der Riet. 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. (iv) + 106, incl. index; 2 plates. Merest trace of foxing to edges. Near-fine condition.'The Rev. John Ayliff, 1820 Settler and one of the pioneer missionaries of the Eastern Cape, left among his papers an unfinished manuscript, here published in full for the first time under the title The Journal of Harry Hastings, Albany Settler. It consists of a narrative mostly in diary form of the experiences of a young British settler of 1820 whom the writer calls"Harry Hastings": the four-month voyage from London to Algoa Bay, the trek to the settlement near Bathurst and the difficult months that followed. Harry Hastings is to be regarded not only as an alter ego of John Ayliff, but also as a typical British settler, a"rooinek"transplanted from Whitechapel to the Zuurveld. The narrative offers a lively and entertaining account of settler life, and a unique fund of information about the first years of the Albany Settlement.'