Portrait of Indian South Africans (1969)

Meer, Fatima

Description:

This liberally illustrated 236 pp large-format volume overcomes its unprofessional production with the author's loving and involved treatment.

The badly chipped dustjacket is now protected in a plastic sleeve. The orange cloth-board covers, black design and type to front, spine and back, have brightly withstood the hands of many readers -- though this copy has none of the signs of library ownership. The photographic endpapers are clean, as are the rest of the photographs and text, printed on art-paper. There are owner's and address stamps on the flyleaf and the first few leaves are water-stained at their top outer edges.

An acceptable copy of an invaluable record of the lives Indian South Africans.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Avon House
  • Publisher Place: Durban
  • Date of Publication: 1969
  • Edition: First
  • Jacket Condition: Fair
  • Binding Condition: F-G
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 290 x 215
  • Lot No: 171
  • Hammer Price: $44
  • Bids: 6
  • Visits: 37
  • Estimate: $50
  • 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
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  • Trade Association: AA Approved
  • 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.