Homesteads and Villages of South Africa
by Walton, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
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About This Item
J L Van Schailk Ltd. Dealing with the more celebrated homesteads, churches and villages of the Western Province and the development of folk building throughout South Africa. Included are ornate gabled houses, fortified Frontier homesteads, hardbieshuise, thatched cottages at Mamre and Zuurbraak. Corbelled and Griqua structures. Richly illustrated with sketches, maps and 54 b&w photographs. Some foxing to prelims. Cockling to the top edge of illustrations at the rear. 114 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to poor. Edge-wear with a number of closed tears mainly to top edge. Open tears to the header and foot of the spine. Creasing with some rubbing to the fold edges. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306178
- Title
- Homesteads and Villages of South Africa
- Author
- Walton, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J L Van Schailk Ltd
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africana; Art & Architecture (South African);
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Quagga Books
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About the Seller
Quagga Books
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Cape Town
About Quagga Books
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...