Search Results: Titles starting with F from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town, 1972). Quarto, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed, no pagination, numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Excellent photo-essay, depicting the people and places of South Africa. .

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1987) 0868520349. 200 x 130 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 304. Wrappers foxed and very slightly curled; foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Good condition. "Olive Schreiner always had an effect on people - no-one who encountered her was afterwards neutral about her. She was adored or thoroughly loathed. In this collection of letters, diaries and other manuscript sources, Ridley Beeton integrates her warmth and arrogance, her anger and love, her brilliance and contrariness into a comprehensive portrait of Olive Schreiner the woman and writer. The emotional/intellectual entanglements with Karl Pearson, Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis are extensively covered. The facets presented are based on primary sources held at research centres, and are linked by notes which give further information about the people who influenced her, or under whose guidance she worked." .

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1987) 0868520349. 200 x 130 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 304. Wrappers very slightly rubbed, and sunned on spine; scattered foxing. Good condition. "Olive Schreiner always had an effect on people - no-one who encountered her was afterwards neutral about her. She was adored or thoroughly loathed. In this collection of letters, diaries and other manuscript sources, Ridley Beeton integrates her warmth and arrogance, her anger and love, her brilliance and contrariness into a comprehensive portrait of Olive Schreiner the woman and writer. The emotional/intellectual entanglements with Karl Pearson, Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis are extensively covered. The facets presented are based on primary sources held at research centres, and are linked by notes which give further information about the people who influenced her, or under whose guidance she worked." .

(London: Abacus, 2000) 0349114501. 196 x 125 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 326; map; photographs in text. A little foxing. Very good condition. "In search of direction, Jeffrey Tayler left a comfortable but unsatisfying existence in Moscow for a taste of adventure. Seduced by Victorian explorers' tales of derring-do, he decided to embark on an expedition to the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), deep in Africa's heart of darkness. Leaving the capital, Kinshasa, on a barge teeming with merchants, deck-hands, prostitutes, families and fishermen, Tayler heads up the Congo river towards Kisangani, 1,100 miles away. Then, at the end of a journey which would have made a book in itself, the real test began - a descent of the river's longest navigable stretch in a hand-carved pirogue ..." .

(Cape Town: Africana Connoisseurs Press, 1963). Number 80 of an edition limited to 510 copies. 4to; original maroon rexine, lettered in gilt on upper cover; pp. 29. Somewhat foxed. Very good condition. 'The story of the struggle for the freedom of the press in South Africa is well known, but the broadsheet "Facts connected with the Stopping of the Press" is such a rare document that its re-publication is bound to arouse great interest. ... A handbill was ... posted outside the Printing Office announcing that "Facts connected with the stopping of the Press and the censorship of the Fiscal" would be published the following Monday morning at 8 a.m. Greig arranged his "Statement of Facts", and his comments on the "insult offered to an innocent and meritorious editor". This was all set in type, ready to be thrown off and published, but Somerset was determined it should not appear, so he sent the Fiscal on Sunday afternoon with a warrant to seal up the press.… Read More

(London: The Folio Society, 2001). 8vo; red pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt, pale blue, green and pink; tinted top edge; red slipcase; pp. (x) + 186; full-colour plates; decorative head-pieces. Merest trace of discolouration to slipcase, else fine. "This edition reprints, with minor emendations, the versions of 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Blue Beard', 'Cinderella' and 'Beauty and the Beast' first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912 as The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. … The texts of the remaining tales are based on the original Robert Samber translation." .

(Cape Town: Royal Society of South Africa, 1991) 0620160837. "The content of this book comprises Parts 4 & 5 of Volume 47 of the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, which explains the pagination herein." Large 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pp. (viii) + [363-784]; maps, tables, photographs and diagrams, incl. colour and folding. Trace of spotting to top edge; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. A very thorough compilation of studies on the environmental health of this jewel of South Africa's coastline, following on from the similar symposium held in 1968. The experts' papers, presented for the Symposium, are divided into three sections: Physical Environment, Biology, and, Human Impact and Management. .

(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1977) 0798107774. 8vo; original turquoise boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 181, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary artwork and photographs, incl. a little colour. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "With The False Bay Story Jose Burman completes his trilogy of books on the sea approaches of the Western Cape. But whereas The Saldanha Bay Story deals with the attempts to make a harbour of a mighty land-locked bay, and The Bay of Storms is devoted to the tragedy of storm and shipwreck which forms the story of Table Bay, The False Bay Story is a book about people - a very human tale. ... The book is illustrated with some 110 monochrome and colour pictures, showing life in False Bay in all its aspects - fascinating views of Simon's Town, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay, Muizenberg, the Strand and Gordon's Bay down the years. The 16 charts and maps… Read More

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1974). 8vo; original salmon-coloured boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 230 + (x), incl. index; plates. Spine panel sunned; front free endpaper removed; tape marks and some foxing to endpapers. Absent front free endpaper notwithstanding, good to very good condition. "Dan Judson, whose adventurous youth in Cape Town during the stirring days of the old Cape Colony makes fascinating reading, is perhaps best remembered for his leadership in the Mazoe Patrol episode of the Mashona Rebellion of 1896. This was but one aspect of a full life which centred around his work as a telegraphist when this medium was the foremost means of communication. At the age of 29, he was appointed to reconstruct, reorganise and take charge of the Telegraph in Mashonaland. The accounts of his field work, particularly the many dangerous jobs undertaken in maintaining communications during the Rebellion, are of great interest. He played… Read More

(Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981). 8vo (213 x 140 mm); original wraps laid on boards; pp. xvi + 219, incl. index; map, tables and diagrams. Ex-library copy with reinforced wraps, covered with clear adhesive plastic; stamps and label remnants to endpapers and prelims. Good condition. "Lesotho, once 'the granary of the Free State and part of the Cape Colony', eventually became an impoverished labour reserve. Mass labour migration destroyed family life in Lesotho as well as in Botswana, Swaziland and the Bantustans within South Africa. Why did the migrant labour system not end with political independence in these countries? This fundamental question is examined by Colin Murray in his penetrating historical study of Lesotho." .

(Johannesburg, Pretoria, Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, no date, circa 1910?). Folio, pp. (7) Very light soiling and foxing. 'Printed as Manuscript. Old Transvaal volkslied as a funeral march. Old Transvaal volkslied as a waltz, with introduction.' .

(Alberton: Horne & de Villiers, 1986) 0620099445. 4to; original pale boards, with black lettering to spine and upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 128; numerous photographs and facsimiles. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; scattered foxing; trace of fishmothing to endpapers. Good condition. Afrikaans text. "So spontaan soos die deelname van duisende luisteraars aan sy humorprogram Flink uit die Vere, so spontaan het die gedagte van 'n huldeblyk aan Fanus Rautenbach ontstaan. Fanus is vandag die naam wat Afrikaanse humor vergestalt. Fanus is die man wat 'n volk geleer het om vir homself te kan lag; wat reeds 'n kwarteeu lank die spanning oor buitelandse dreigemente en binnelandse woelinge met sy kwinkslae ontlaai. Deur die gesproke en geskrewe woord het hy 'n bydrae tot taalskepping en volkskultuur gemaak wat hom 'n enige plek in die geledere van Afrikaanse woordkunstenaars besorg." .

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924). First edition. With illustrations from drawings by the author, by H. R. Millais, and from photographs. Royal 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. x + (ii) + 254, incl. index; map; fifty plates. Some silverfish attention to cloth; backstrip a little frayed at head and tail; earlier owner's name to front pastedown; scattered, moderate foxing. Good condition. (Czech, p. 197) "Millais traveled to Dinka territory in the Sudan. In the Sudd region, his party hunted reedbuck and kob but was unsuccessful in finding elephant. Continuing along the Nile valley, they bagged buffalo, hartebeest, and trophy roan. Perhaps his best chapter describes hunting buffalo and eland in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region. The illustrations, for the most part, are taken from Millais' excellent sketches." - Kenneth P. Czech: A Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999 .

(New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935). Original cloth, lightly water-stained, pp. xii + 295, map. Endpapers and top edge very slightly water-stained, light foxing, binding a little slack. A novel. .

(London: Faber and Faber, 1966). 8vo; original tan cloth; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 268, incl. index; plates; maps. Ex-library copy. Dustwrapper a little scuffed; portion cut from front free endpaper; ink stamps, label scars and codes to front endpaper; ink-stamps also to prelims., fore-edge, and final printed page. Good. "Since 1956 - the year of Suez - events in Arabia have moved fast; so fast that the old world of Lawrence and Doughty, of Philby and Bertram Thomas and Thesiger has been replaced, in a sense, by a new Arabia - an Arabia uninterested in that long, romantic love-affair between herself and the Occident which for so many generations engaged the imagination and the heart of Western man. All the major events of the past ten years ... reflect or have created radically new relationships within Arabia and between Arabia and the rest of the world. David Holden, now the Sunday Times special correspondent on Foreign Affairs, knows Arabia as well as anyone else… Read More

(Cape Town: Dr. J.F. Midgley, 1982) 0620060107. 8vo; original grey boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xvi) + 120; several photographs. Dustwrapper rubbed, partially sunned, and very slightly worn at extremities of spine panel; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition. "This is a book mainly about ships which will not be seen anymore - old tramps which wound up on the scrapheap, fast freighters which were victims of wartime casualty, and others which were lost through shipwreck. Many were declared redundant. Since the demise of so many regular callers has created a great yearning among ship-lovers for a record of some of the great events of the past, this volume about cargo carrying vessels is of particular interest. The book is a successor to Salt in my Blood, and Ships that Pass, published by the same author in the 1970's and sold out in months. The author who spent nearly half a century as a maritime correspondent at the… Read More

103 x 152 mm (image dimensions); 280 x 340 mm (outer dimensions). Original watercolour-and-ink artwork. On laid paper, laid down on a larger sheet with a hand-painted border. Inscribed in pencil lower right. Top left corner of larger sheet slightly frittered, not affecting image. Very good condition. Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) had a prolific output of exquisite topographical works, besides a wide range of other paintings in both oils and watercolours on a variety of subjects. During his life, Grimm was commissioned to record the heritage of places throughout England and Wales by his friend Richard Kaye, and also worked on behalf of Gilbert White and Francis Grose. .

(Kijabi, Kenya, Kesho Publications, 1977). Paperback, card wraps scuffed, pp. (v) + 168, plates. Text lightly browned. 'Gladys Stauffacher writes about an Africa that has been her backyard since the late thirties. Married to Claudon Stauffacher, whose parents' lives are featured in this narrative, she has served in and visited many of the places she writes about. During their last term on the field, the Stauffachers pioneered a new station in one of the few primitive areas left in Kenya. Her own words are an excellent summation of what missionary life is all about. The story of missions is the story of young people and the young in heart, venturing into the unknown. It is the story of romance in the setting of a strange land, and joy or sorrow in lonely places.' .

(Victoria, Australia: the author, 2014) 9780980755046. 240 x 180 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (ii) + vi + 218, incl. index; liberally illustrated with contemporary photographs, artwork and facsimiles; map. Near-fine condition. "William Edward Moore was expected to follow his father into military service but his life turned upside down at the age of nine when his father died. He was taken under the wing of the Chief Justice of the Cape, Sir John Wylde, who encouraged the young boy to pursue a careeer in law. Moore repaid the generosity of his benefactor by having an outstanding legal career that was to last for sixty-four years. Having settled in the tiny hamlet of Papendorp, he became passionately involved in its welfare and development. He was the driving force that saw Papendorp later become the municipality of Woodstock and he was its first mayor. ... The Father of Woodstock traces the settlement of the Cape from its 17th century beginnings under Dutch rule through the 19th century when the… Read More

(Port Elizabeth: City of Port Elizabeth, 1993). 210 x 297 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 8); modern and period photographs. Trace of spotting to wrappers; small crease to bottom fore-corner; small scuff to fore-edge of upper cover. Very good condition. Commemorative brochure on the occasion of the opening of the Feather Market Centre, following the complete refurbishment of the old Feather Market Hall. Contents include a message from the mayor, a Tribute to Athol Fugard, a brief history of the Feather Market Hall, and an article on the refurbishment. .