Eastern Cape from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: Chameleon Press, 1987) 0620109408. Small 4to; pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 152; map; liberally illustrated with contemporary artwork and facsimiles. A little shelf-rubbed; trace of foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere; light tape marks to boards and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good condition. "M D Nash has produced a completely new list of these original 1820… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: David Philip, 1977) 0949968765. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xi + (i) + 267; plates. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn; spotting to edges and endpapers, sporadically elsewhere; "Xmas 1977" in pen to front pastedown. Good condition. "'I was given a good life in a lovable world among remarkable people.'… Read more about this item

(Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1963). 212 x 138 mm; cloth-backed, side-stitched printed card wrappers; pp. 91. A little browning. Very good condition. 'The documents to be discussed are printed under Section C. They were all lost in a mass of manuscript-volumes, later classified under "British Kaffraria" (B.K.) in the Cape Archives. I first became aware of their existence when… Read more about this item

(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 2001) 0620280298. 200 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 211, incl. index; several black-and-white photographs. Spine sunned; occasional faint fox spot; perfect-bound starting to work loose. Very good condition. "Travel with Bartle Logie as he follows the first railway line north from the shores of Algoa Bay to historical towns and quiet corners that help make… Read more about this item

(Port Elizabeth: Historical Society of Port Elizabeth and Walmer, 1969). Port Elizabeth Series, number 1. Facsimile reprint of the 1868 privately published original. Number 68 of an edition limited to 500 copies. 250 x 160 mm; saddle-stitched wraps; pp. (vi) + 9; two monochrome illustrations. Lower cover partially sunned. Very good condition. "The writer pays tribute… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Juta, 1948, 1st edition). 8vo; original blue cloth; no dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. (xiv) + 317, incl. index; plates. Cloth partially sunned, and stippled; some rust spots to backstrip; trace of foxing to endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "This is not a tale of super-men. It is the plain, unvarnished chronicle of… Read more about this item

(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 2003) 0620309466. 211 x 172 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 249; line drawings by Ann Snaddon. Near-fine condition. "In 1802 Commissioner-General Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, of Batavia, set foot on shore of Table Bay. In order to obtain first hand knowledge of the country, accompanied by a young German doctor Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein, he… Read more about this item

(Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1960). 8vo; original dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; frontis.; pp. 371. Dustwrapper edgeworn and a little rubbed, with archival tape repair to head of spine panel; trace of foxing to endpapers and top edge. Very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. "The adventures of an 1820… Read more about this item

(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 2011) 9780987001726. 210 x 147 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 248; maps; photographs. Small crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover, else fine. "Bartle Logie together with his wife Caryl, in this the sixth book in his series of historical travelogues through the Eastern Cape region of South Africa, undertakes a fascinating and informative journey along the… Read more about this item

(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 1999) 0620241527. Signed by the author on the title page. 200 x 146 mm; side-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 164; monochrome illustrations in text; folding map at rear. Sunned on spine. Very good condition. Fascinating local history in which "many previously untold stories unfold about ... this almost forgotten corner of South Africa. Included are shipwrecks,… Read more about this item

(St Francis Bay: Write-On Publishing, 2021) 9781920700300. 208 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xii + 384; colour plates; illustrations in text. Fine condition. 'Adventurer, historian and raconteur Bartle Logie's normal research pattern involves intensive deskbound research, accompanied by meticulously following the route of the planned narrative in the trusty Isuzu. However, this was not to be for this his… Read more about this item

(Grahamstown: The Trustees of the Albany Museum, 1995) 0958320659. 285 x 224 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 160; lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs and reproductions of contemporary photographs and artwork. Slight curl to top fore-corner of upper cover. Very good condition. "Good old Grahamstown - there is nowhere else quite like it. Hidden in a secret valley amid… Read more about this item

(Murraysburg: the author, 1993). 204 x 143 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 126; some portrait photographs. A little underlining. Good to very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Gedurende die eerste gedeelte van die twintigste eeu het drie Ned Geref gemeentes as gevolg van politieke oorwegings ontstaan. In die Vrystaat is op Winburg die rebelliegesinde gemeente Rietfontein op 31 Mei 1917 gestig. In… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2017) 9781868428205. 232 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 277, incl. index. Fine condition. "As a former senior state official and local government 'fixer', Crispian Olver was no stranger to dodgy politicians and broken organisations. Yet what he found in Nelson Mandela Bay went far beyond rigged contracts, blatant conflicts of interest and garden-variety… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Stormberg, 2002) 0620292504. 210 x 140 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (xii) + 131; map; historical photographs. Near-fine condition. " 'Every one should have a diery. Becos life is too hard with the things one must say to be perlite and the things one must not say to lie. This is something I can never get right … So… Read more about this item

(Graaff-Reinet: C. A. Els, 1953). 210 x 140 mm; printed card wrappers; yapp edges; pp. 204; photographs and other illustrations; adverts. Wrappers frittered, rubbed and a little foxed; occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. TO SELL WITH: Graaff-Reinet: The Gem of the Karoo (Graaff-Reinet: Graaff-Reinet Publicity Association and the South African Railways & Harbours, 1928) 217 x 140 mm; saddle-stitched… Read more about this item

(Pretoria: HAUM, 1993) 079863233X. 295 x 208 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 89; photographs, including folding aerial view; floor plans; maps; facsimiles. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "In Graaff-Reinet, op die hoek van Somerset- en Cradockstraat, staan 'n huis op erf 687. Dié huis, waarvan die geskiedenis teruggaan na Graaff-Reinet se vroegste jare, is 'n Nasionale Gedenkwaardigheid. Hier… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Elephant Head Publications, 2004) 062031690X. Number 22 of an edition limited to 1000 copies, signed by the author on the title page. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; endpaper street plans; pp. 192; lavishly illustrated with maps, photographs and historical artwork, much of which is in full colour. Bump to top fore-corners of boards and to tail of spine. Very… Read more about this item

(no place: Cape Performing Arts Board, ca 1992) 0620169524. 8vo; original purple boards; spine gilt; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 130; several photographic illustrations. Fine condition. The history of the hub of Port Elizabeth's cultural life, a theatre venue which hosted many international stars of the stage, and provided an early platform for the talent of Athol Fugard. .… Read more about this item

(Umtata: Transkei Legal Scholarship Association, 1983). 300 x 212 mm; cloth-backed card wrappers; pp. (iv) 42 + (ii); photographs. A few fox spots. Very good condition. .