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A DECENT FELLOW DOESN'T WORK
by GREEN, LAWRENCE G.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hard Cover Blue Boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$17.55
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Dust jacket has matching chips at head & tail; worn on edges and front cnrs head & tail; all faults now restored and strengthened; front cover speckled; price clipped; author's name on spine in embossed tape. Book has blank "Ex Libris" sticker covering a gift inscription. Interior unmarked and clean. Colour frontis plus 18 pages of black and white illustrations,… Read more about this item Item Price
$17.55
A HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA
by WELSH, FRANK
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st impression
- Published
- 1998
- Binding
- Hard cover maroon boards
- ISBN
- 9780002555616
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$19.44
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Dust jacket has 12mm closed tear. Book is unmarked; all pages slightly and uniformly yellowing. 24 pages b&w photo plates; maps as eps, 11 b&w maps of which 7 are double page. Please expect extra overseas postage. Item Price
$19.44
THE UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE CAPE
by BURMAN, JOSE
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1992
- Binding
- Hard Cover Laminated Boards
- ISBN
- 9780798129688
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$22.68
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All edges very slightly yellowing; very small bump at head. Appears unread, unmarked. 4 pages colour photo plates; numerous text illustrations in b&w; some maps in b&w. Item Price
$22.68
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TRANSVAAL STORY
by MACDONALD, TOM
- Condition
- Used - Fine in plastic
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Hard cover red boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$23.76
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The dj has been restored at head & tail and top 2 corners; 2 closed tears 45 and 15 mm with some creasing ; minimal wear on spine and front edges. A lengthy gift inscription has been covered by an attractive blank "Ex Libris". The book appears unread and is otherwise unmarked; top edge coloured. Portrait of author as frontis… Read more about this item Item Price
$23.76
Dr HENDRIK FRENSCH VERWOERD 1901 - 1966
by SCHOLTZ. G D
- Condition
- Used - Fyn in plastiek
- Jacket Condition
- Baie goed
- Edition
- Eerste uitgawe, 1ste druk.
- Published
- 1074
- Binding
- Hardeband
- ISBN
- 9780628003737
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$41.20
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Stofomslag gevryf maar nou ietwat herstel en hergekleur. Boodskap aan eienaar op voorvryebladsy. Item Price
$41.20
REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES
by HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
- Condition
- Used - Good in Plastic
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1877
- Binding
- Hard boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$67.50
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Soundly bound in original boards, which are somewhat marked; titles on paper front and spine are both legible, but that on spine has been reworked. Foxed adjacent to the boards, otherwise remakably free of foxing, merely yellowed; some light pencil annotations in occasional reports. Folding plans in perfect condition, some tables. To our present parliamentarians this should be a… Read more about this item Item Price
$67.50
SUNDAY'S RIVER VALLEY. SIGNED
by MEIRING, JANE M.
- Condition
- Used - Very Fine in Plastic.
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Published
- 1959
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$21.92
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Cape Town: Balkema . The eps and first 2 and last 2 pages are lightly foxed., 1959. Signed by Author on title page.10pp b&w photog plates. First Edition.. Hard Cover Green Skivertex.. Fine in Plastic./None. Item Price
$21.92
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VERTIG BOOMMONUMENTE.
by VAN TONDER, Dr J J
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Eerste uitgawe
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardeband
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$27.00
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Ruggraat verbruin met 'n nuwe titel op. Fotos in s&w met beskywings. Uiters skars. Heelmoontlik die eenigste kopie wat nog bestaan. Item Price
$27.00
In Search of AFRICA'S GREAT TUSKERS
by MARAIS, JOHAN and Alan Ainslie
- Condition
- Used - Very Fine in plastic
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Hard cover grey board
- ISBN
- 9780143026556
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$132.30
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This copy is the First S African Edition and has (additional) artwork by Alan Ainslie which appears not to have been included in the first overseas edition. The prices asked for the overseas edition(s) range fron $410 (R7620) to $786, which the sellers have made no attempt to justify - cannot be scarcity because 11 copies are on offer on… Read more about this item Item Price
$132.30
The SHELTERING DESERT
by MARTIN, HENNO
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Soft cover illustrated
- ISBN
- 9780868521503
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$11.50
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Unmarked. All pages yellowing uniformly. Original soft wraps in perfect condition B&w map as frontis, Reprint. Covered in adhesive plastic. Item Price
$11.50
THE RANDLORDS
by WHEATCROFT, GEOFFREY
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Soft cover illustrated
- ISBN
- 9780868501352
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$13.50
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Sightly yellowing uniformly throughout. 16 pages b&w photo plates. Covered in adhesive plastic. Item Price
$13.50
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH AFRICA
by SPENCER,CLAUDE C.
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1952
- Binding
- Hard cover mustard cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$13.50
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One faded spot 16mm diam on front cover; slight bumping on head & tail. otherwise no markings Item Price
$13.50
LAWS OF NATAL
by (Govenors of the Colony of Natal - Henry Bulwer & A E Havelock, )
- Condition
- Used - With all faults
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- only edition
- Published
- 1884 -1887
- Binding
- Half calf, 5 raised bands, titles on skivers and marbled boards.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$168.75
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Covers damaged by wood-borer now treated and holes filled. One leather corner has been replaced; the other 3 cnrs have been restored; the leather on the spine is in good condition but the marbled paper is extremely rubbed. The title p has bee re-affixed with a strip in the gutter. 2pp torn out from law No 39 of 1884. On… Read more about this item Item Price
$168.75
SOWETO
by MAGUBANE, PETER and Marshall Lee (text)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1978
- Binding
- Hard cover black boards
- ISBN
- 0909238324978
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$28.89
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Dj is almost imperceptibly rubbed and difficult-to-see shallow pen indentations on front. Book is unmarked. Bw photog eps; map, b&w photos thru'out. Some pages paginated, most are not. This is P M's first and most important book. Please expect extra overseas postage. Item Price
$28.89
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A YEAR'S HOUSEKEEPING IN SOUTH AFRICA
by BARKER, LADY
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- new edition
- Published
- 1883
- Binding
- Hard Cover green cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$54.00
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Fully professionaly restored with new spine and title; covers recoloured. The front inside channel has been strengthened. Frontis + 8 b&w plates complete. A most entertaining read. Covered in adhesive plastic. Item Price
$54.00
THE FINDLAY LETTERS 1808 -1870
by FINDLAY, Joan (Ed)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Hard Cover grey boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$21.60
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Dust jacket has 2 larger chips, 30x8, 25x6mm and 4 chips 1.5 x2 mm, replaced with matching paper. Text is clean and bright. Covered in PVC plastic. Item Price
$21.60
THE DIARY OF IRIS VAUGHAN
by VAUGHAN, IRIS
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition thus, reprint.
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Hard blue-grey Boards.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$13.50
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Titles on spine in black. All pages evenly tanned. A S African gem written around the turn of the 19th Century. Mentions both the Boers and British during the Anglo-Boer war when Iris was 12 years old. Wonderful cartoons in text. Covered in PVC plastic. Item Price
$13.50
NONE DARING TO MAKE US AFRAID
by ROBINSON, A M LEWIN
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Hard cover grey boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$16.42
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Dust jacket has closed tears 15, 15mm; scuffed on most edges; slightly frittered at head & tail. Price clipped. Book is unmarked but has been thoroughly read as can be seen by a reader's notes on a seperate piece of notepaper. Covered in PVC Item Price
$16.42
PAPERS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LITERARY SOCIETY
by Pringle, Thomas (secy)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hard Cover Tan Boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$18.20
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No 77 of 510 copies. Unmark; gently tanned. Item Price
$18.20
THE KNYSNA STORY
by NIMMO, ARTHUR
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Hard Cover Navy Blue Boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Johannesburg, ZAF
- Item Price
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$30.24
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Dust jacket has closed tears 12, 12, 3mm. Book is unmarked and clean with only very slight yellowing. Map as eps; 4 pages maps; 18pages photo plates, mainly b&w, few in colour. Covered in archival plastic. Item Price
$30.24