Search Results: Poetry from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Pretoria, 1938). Decorative cloth slightly worn. Verse. (Nienaber, vol. I, page 150). .

(Durban, Robinson & Co., printers, 1932). Decorative wraps, little soiled, corners a little curled, pp. 27. Inscription inside upper wrap, some foxing. Fair. .

(München, Verlag Hermann A. Wiechmann, 1922). Original cloth-backed printed paper over boards, pp. 96, numerous illustrations after engravings. Text edges a little foxed, text slightly browned. .

(Cape Town, no date, circa 1916). Pamphlet, pp. 12. .

(Bloemfontein: 1919). 180 x 125 mm; pictorial wrappers; unpaginated. Staple rusted, a little scattered foxing. Verses giving an impression of Bloemfontein in 1919: soon after the Great War and the Spanish Flu. .

(Cape Town, Maskew Miller, c. 1937). 196 x 128mm, staple-bound card wraps slightly creased and edgeworn, pp. (vi) + 12, with frontispiece portrait of the author, and plate showing Ferguson and Cummings Halls. Preface by Lilly Daws. "As a professor, and later as President of the Huguenot University College, Dr. Stoneman was known in university circles both in and out of South Africa; but it was through the College songs that she entered most intimately into the lives of her students." .

(Johannesburg, Ad. Donker, 1990). Laminated pictorial wraps, very lightly scuffed, spine slightly faded, pp. 379. Text lightly browned. .

(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1967). Small quarto, dustwrapper, rubbed, pp. (ix) + 91, line-illustrations in the text. Bookseller's label on the front pastedown endpaper, edges slightly foxed. Number 16 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. 'The first poets of the Cape are all forgotten now and Nerine Desmond decided to rescue some of them from oblivion.' .

(London: Longmans Green & Co, 1925, First Edition). Small 8vo; original blue boards; top edge gilt; dustwrapper; pp. xxiii + (1) + 238. Edgeworn, sunned and soiled dustwrapper. Fore-edge soiled; sporadic moderate foxing; ownership inscription dated 1927 to front free endpaper. "It has been the aim of the editor to include in this volume a thoroughly representative selection of South African Verse from the time of Thomas Pringle who emigrated to South Africa in 1820 to the present day. The book contains 216 poems by 68 different writers and an introductory essay on South African Poetry by the editor." .

(Cape Town, no date, probably circa 1906). 'A master of style, with a strongly developed sense of humour, he had a lively poetic gift, ...' Dictionary of South African biography, Vol. II, page 302. .

(Plumstead: Snailpress, 1997). 210 x 135 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. 48. A few brown spots, very good condition. 'Moira Lovell's second collection again demonstrates her deftness of touch that emphasises her ability to shift moods and mix sadness with ironic wit.' .

(London, Oxford University Press, 1970 First Edition). 215 x 135 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. (x) + 43. Wraps slightly worn; a little brown spotting. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Very good condition. First edition of important work by one of South Africa's greatest English-language poets. .

(Howick, Brevitas, 2003). 210 x 145 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. (x) + 57; black-and-white drawings in text; gift inscription from author on front free endpaper. Very good condition. "In the exquisite yet simple construction of his poetic statements, Moolman's work reads like a personal dialogue with the universe." Peter Clarke, from the 2001 Ingrid Jonker Prize judges' statement. .

(Cape Town and Pretoria: Human and Rousseau, 1965). Small 4to; cloth-backed papered boards; pp. (vi) + 49. Boards a little soiled; sporadic foxing. Good condition. South African poetry. .

(Cape Town, Purnell, 1972). Limited edition of 400 numbered copies, dustwrapper, pp. (vi) + 51. Verse. Includes such compositions as: 'Thaba Nchu Mountain': 'Day shows a faded floor of grass, Expanse that flows eye-failing far, And eastwards lifts a craggy height/ that men with assegais bizarre, Dark men with darker fear within, Forcing their naked fleeing feet, Acclaimed and climbed the mountain slopes/ To bring relief to hot retreat.' Also: Summer veld,' etc. .

(London, A.C. Fifield, 1917). Original wraps, worn and soiled, pp. 78 + (1). Some foxing, fore- and bottom-edges uncut. Fair condition. .

(no place, C. Gardiner, no date, inscription dated 1958 inside lower wrap). Wraps, slight creasing, lightly soiled and edges a little frayed, pp. 60. Scarce. .

(Parkview, Quartz Press, 1998). 206 x 148mm paperback, cover a little rubbed, pp. 56. Very good condition. "Lola Watter recalls aspects of her childhood spent at the North-Bridge Mills, Potchefstroom. With an historic water-mill, driven by yellow-wood machinery; a malt-yard and a dairy farm as her play-ground, there was no lack of stimulation for an only child's imagination." .

(Cape Town, published by the author, 1951). An illustrated story in verse. Pictorial dustwrapper frayed, original gilt cloth, pp. 47, photographic portraits, erratum slip. Endpapers a little foxed, upper hinge beginning to split internally. Presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper, dated 18/6/51. .

(Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1935). 8vo; original papered boards; pp. 54. Backstrip abraded at head; lower board somewhat mottled; earlier owner's name with date "April 1936" to front pastedown. Good condition. Afrikaans text. The scarce first published work by one of South Africa's most celebrated writers. 'Uys Krige's even then strong gift for rhythm builds up a poem like the excellent "Weerstand" (Resistance), for example, in which he praises the palm, the olive tree, and the deep-river-like stillness of a starry night as symbols of patience and resistance in words, sounds, and movements of mind that make the reader feel their being and personality, as it were, and realize with some vividness the nature of the qualities they symbolize. Poems like "Skans" (Bulwark), "Kontras" (Contrast), and "Nagreen" (Night Rain), short and simple as they are, are alive in the freshness and originality of their language; and minute cameos like… Read More