Books About Books from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: South African Library in association with Centre for Contemporary Islam, UCT, 1997) 0869681192. Grey Bibliographies Series No. 21. 240 x 185 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xiv + 209, incl. index. Fine condition. "This annotated bibliography compiled by Dr Muhammed Haron of the Department of Arabic Studies, University of the Western Cape, is a valuable contribution to the literature… Read more about this item

(London: Cambridge University Press, 1949). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. xii + 201, incl. index. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn and partially tanned; trace of light foxing. Good to very good condition. 'The grace and wit of these Sandars Lectures in Bibliography for 1947 will recommend them to others besides the confirmed bibliophile, perhaps… Read more about this item

(London: Ernest Benn, 1957). 8vo; original charcoal cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 244, including index; plates. Dustwrapper rather rubbed and edgeworn; trace of light spotting to edges and endpapers. Good condition. "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and… Read more about this item

(London: Heinemann, 1962). 8vo; original tan cloth, lettered in white on spine; no dustwrapper (but upper flap mounted to front pastedown); pp. 360, incl. index; plates. Top edges of boards a little stippled; some foxing and spotting to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "Mrs Brett Young's biography of her husband is based primarily upon his very readable letters… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: University of Cape Town School of Librarianship, 1964). 227 x 164 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (viii) + 29. Very good condition. "The following bibliography is a list of material relating to the towns of Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. As the compiler is a native of the latter, and knows the former intimately, this compilation has been most… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1970). 232 x 165 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. (iv) + iv + 26. Wrappers ever so slightly sunned. Very good condition. "The following bibliography lists books and periodical material on the Namib desert. Periodicals have not been covered completely as only indexes to later South African periodicals exist. However, periodical articles,… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: South African Library, 1986). 215 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 200. Wrappers lightly worn; spine somewhat sunned. Very good condition. Contributors include Gerrit Struik, Karel Schoeman, Paul Mills, Ryno Greenwall, Fiona Barbour, Reuben Musiker, Johann Maree, Maryna Fraser and Stephan Welz. .

(Salisbury: University of Rhodesia, 1972). University of Rhodesia University Library Bibliographical Series Number One. Small 4to; original green cloth; lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xv + (iii) + 222; frontis. portrait. Cloth a little rubbed; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "The Godlonton Collection of Rhodesiana consists of just over seven hundred items. It is particularly strong… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Juta & Company, 1965). Large 8vo; original rust-coloured cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. xiii + (i) + 178, incl. index; plates. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly worn, with light crease to upper panel; merest trace of browning to endpapers and edges. Very good condition. "Africana Repository is a book… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1975) 0869610651. 8vo; original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, in removable protector; pp. viii + 136; black-and-white reproductions. Very good condition. "This book represents years of research into certain features of nineteenth-century South African art and artists and offers a comprehensive impression… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: South African Library, 1963). 227 x 164 mm; cloth-backed card wrappers; pp. (x) + 77; plates. Bilingual text (English and Afrikaans). Wrappers slightly rubbed; occasional foxing. Very good condition. This book catalogues the printed works of plant hunters in South Africa from the earliest times. "The South African Public Library and the Friends of the South African Library… Read more about this item

(London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1970) 0258967900. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + 105, incl. index. Chip to fore-edge of upper board; cover partially sunned. Very good. .

(Pietermaritzburg: the author, 1996) 0958415110. 8vo; original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 169; text illustrations; colour plates. Edition of 200 numbered copies. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel. Very good condition. "Few South Africans have discovered the pleasure of book collecting. This little guide is designed to sharpen local interest in book collecting… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Friends of the S.A. Library, 1984) 0869680528. 213 x 131; printed wrappers; pp. 85; frontispiece. Spine slightly sunned, merest trace of foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. A festschrift in honour of the publisher A. A. Balkema, with contributions in English and Afrikaans by writers whose works Balkema published. English tributes… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Book Exhibition Committee; Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952). Catalogue of an exhibition of books, atlases and maps held in the South African Library, Cape Town, 1 March till 5 April 1952; in commemoration of the arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck at the Cape; 6 April 1652 / Katalogus van 'n uitstalling van boeke, atlasse en kaarte in die Suid-Afrikaanse… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg, Ad. Donker, 1986) 0868520403. Large 8vo; original brown boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 253, incl. index; photographs. Dustwrapper a little rubbed; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. "The Companion to South African Libraries has been designed to provide a unique conspectus of the South African library world. Here, for the first time, is… Read more about this item

(Pretoria: The State Library, 1972) 0798900105. Number 13 in the State Library's 'Contributions to Library Science' series. 4to; half rexine, with green cloth sides, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. viii + 197; frontis. portrait; plates. Sporadic foxing. Very good condition. These essays are brought together in one volume to honour the man… Read more about this item

(Durban: University of Natal Library, 1979) 0869802097. 8vo; original red cloth; pp. (vi) + iii + 447. Very good condition. Total of 914 entries. "The Llewellyn Powell Collection of Early Technology was established in 1956 by the late Mrs Florence Ann Elizabeth Powell in memory of her husband who was a distinguished engineer. The collection contains 'early… Read more about this item

(Berlin: Richard Carl Schmidt & Co, 1923). 8vo; original green boards; pp. 630 + XVIII. Boards sunned on edges and frayed at head and tail of spine; text heavily browned as usual. Good condition. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Specimens of handwriting in text. .

(Cape Town: South African Library, 1997) 0869681184. 210 x 145 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. x + 219. Spine a little sunned. Near fine condition. Topics covered include: Current State of Publishing and Bibliography of African materials (John McIlwaine); History of the South African Publishing and Book Trade (A.S.C. Hooper); Mission Presses in Natal (Brian Spencer);… Read more about this item