A DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH

[Mandela (Nelson) Signed edition]

Description:

ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES (South African Words and Their Origins).

Edited with a Preface by Penny Silva.

825 pages, full dark blue leather titled gilt on upper cover and spine, two silk place markers, blue and grey cloth slip case with leather lips, a fine copy.

Number 88 of an edition of 100 copies, in support of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, signed on the title page by Nelson Mandela.

Details:

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Place: Cape Town
  • Date of Publication: 1996
  • Edition: Limited edition
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (280 x 220 mm)
  • Lot No: 280
  • Hammer Price: $1113
  • Bids: 3
  • Visits: 205
  • Estimate: $1500/2000
  • Reserve: $1000

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