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AFRICANA REPRINT LIBRARY (Complete set of the De Luxe Editions)
[Africana Book Society]
Description:
Complete set of the 12 volumes published between 1975 and 1977
De Luxe Editions, uniformly bound in full brown leather gilt with green title labels on the spines, each with original cellophane wrappers and contained in green cloth slip cases, top edges gilt, each numbered 94 of editions limited to 101 copies. A very good set.
1. Sandeman (E.F.) EIGHT MONTHS IN AN OX-WAGGON
2. Lucas (T.J.) CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA
3. Lord (W.B.) & Baines (Thomas) SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE,
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
4. & 5. Holub (Emil) SEVEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA, volumes 1 & 2
6. Norris-Newman (C.L.) WITH THE BOERS IN THE TRANSVAAL AND ORANGE FREE STATE IN 1880-1
7. Cohen (Louis) REMINISCENCES OF JOHANNESBURG AND LONDON
8. Kestell (J.D.) THROUGH SHOT AND FLAME
9. Matthews (J.W.) INCWADI YAMI
10. Schreiner (Olive) THOUGHTS ON SOUTH AFRICA
11. Haldane (Aylmer) HOW WE ESCAPED FROM PRETORIA
12. Hodson (Arnold W.) TREKKING THE GREAT THIRST
Details:
- Publisher: Africana Book Society
- Publisher Place: Johannesburg
- Date of Publication: 1975 to 1977
- Edition: De Luxe Edition
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (220 x 140 mm)
- Lot No: 142
- Hammer Price: $1100
- Bids: 3
- Visits: 221
- Estimate: $1500/2000
- Reserve: $1000
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Seller Details:
- Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
- Website: www.clarkes.co.za
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard, Bank tranfers
- Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
- Additional Information:
Phone: 0027 21 794 0600
Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.
