Ciskei Development Conference (1978, signed) . . .

Proctor-Sims, R (ed)

Description:

". . . The development of viable communities in southern Africa with particular reference to the Ciskei"

This copy carries the autograph message "With best wishes from the Chief Minister Chief L L Sebe 15/9/78" and the signatures of the conference chairman, D A Etheredge, then an executive director of the Anglo American Corporation, whose Group Chairman's Fund was one of the 21 sponsors of the conference, and the conference proceedings editor.

Four-colour printed drawn-on paper covers and thread-sewn sections flush trimmed with the covers. Apart from some bumping of the cover corners, the copy is clean and complete. The 208 pp inlude the names of the steering committee and the lists of sponsors and participants.

The keynote presentation was by Professor G R Bozzoli, a former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Conference Associates
  • Publisher Place: Pretoria
  • Date of Publication: 1978
  • Edition: First
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 245 x 165 mm
  • Lot No: 177
  • Hammer Price: $25
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 18
  • Estimate: $35
  • Reserve: $25

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  • Name: Fontein Books
  • Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Email: fontein@wol.co.za
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  • Additional Information: Fontein Books has for several years participated in Antiquarian Auctions and its predecessor. It specialises in historical and contemporary books on the Free State and Northern Karoo, and is also an active buyer and seller on commission in these and other fields. Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, was an editor, writer and small publisher until 2005, when he moved from Johannesburg to Philippolis, the first settlement (1822) north of the Gariep or Orange River, where he opened his first physical bookshop (to which buyers and sellers are welcome), with reasonable holdings in Africana, both Anglo-Boer wars, biography, history, military history, natural history and travel. He regularly visits Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and offers to deliver heavy or valuable books or sets to these cities on such visits. Richard Proctor-Sims retains the copyright of Fontein's Antiquarian Auction descriptions and these may not be reproduced without permission and acknowledgment.