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(Port Elizabeth: Algoa Regional Services Council, 1993) 0620177330. 4to; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. xiv + 666. Boards bumped; earlier owners' hand-stamp to front free endpaper, with mounted newspaper clippings related to the book's release to both recto and verso; some foxing to edges and occasionally elsewhere. Good condition. An uncommon work of huge significance to students of Eastern Cape history. Besides South African repositories, OCLC finds only the Yale copy. There is an amazing prescience to Jack Skead's preface, given the wholesale re-naming of towns in the Eastern Cape province. "The genesis of any placename seldom arises from deliberate thought or choice: it happens when some trivial incident occurs at some insignificant place, perhaps from nothing more exciting than the shooting of a rogue baboon in a patch of bush or the drowning of a pet horse at a drift. For a time the name Bobbejaansbos or Paarde Drift is on everyone's lips… Read More