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(Grahamstown: Mvusi Books, 2010) 9780986979101. Signed by the author on the half-title. 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 141. Earlier owner's name signed on half-title. Very good condition. "John Stanford's anecjokes are yarns against adversity, related with elegance and wry humour. Spanning half a century, they range from sheep psychology to frozen tractor valves to ancestral aunts. Many of the same characters re-appear, and the patchwork of stories accumulates into a vivid portrait of a farming community and an extended family. John Stanford qualified as a civil engineer, and has been a farmer all his life - mostly in East Griqualand ... He is over 80 now, still farming, and philosophical about most things except the weather." .