The African Kaleidoscope (1962)

Lessing, Peter

Description:

Born and educated in South Africa, the author lived most of his life in Europe, mainly as a British war and foreign correspondent. This book is the result of a year travelling on his own from Sudan to Rhodesia and moving north again to Ghana.

The jacket is chipped head and foot with two small unclosed tears at the top. The black cloth boards, gilt to spine, have a small bump at the head of the front panel; the lower corner of the back cover is lightly crushed, with the mark continued through several of the back leaves. The 383 pp of text and index + 13 inserted maps + 12 pp of plates are otherwise all present, clean and undiscoloured.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Collins
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1962
  • Edition: First
  • Jacket Condition: Good +
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 220 x 147
  • Lot No: 205
  • Hammer Price: $20
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 4
  • Estimate: $35
  • Reserve: $20

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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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  • 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.