Vrystaatse Erfenis (1982)

Schoeman, Karel

Description:

Translated as "Free State Heritage. Nineteenth-century architecture and building", this Schoeman book was dedicated to Professor P J Nienaber in appreciation for his contribution to the preservation of this province's past.

Colour laminated photographic dustjacket overlaid with a band announcing the book as the winner of the Recht Malan Prize.(This is awarded annually to the best non-fiction book in Afrikaans or English published during the year. Recht Malan was a writer from the 1930s and 1970s. One of his books, Ou Boland - Nasionale Pers, 1939 - first appeared in Die Huisgenoot.) This was one of Karel Schoeman's many awards over a career that has included major research of the Free State and many fiction and non-fiction titles in English and Afrikaans.

The green cloth-boards, white lettered to the spine, the plain white endpapers, the 152 pp of text + 70 monochrome illustrations + appendixes and index, and the inserted art-paper section with 129 captioned colour photographs are all in unmarked as new condition.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Human & Rousseau
  • Publisher Place: Cape Town
  • Date of Publication: 1982
  • Edition: First
  • Jacket Condition: Mint
  • Binding Condition: Mint
  • Overall Condition: Mint
  • Size: 285 x 220
  • Lot No: 362
  • Hammer Price: $61
  • Bids: 9
  • Visits: 40
  • Estimate: $100
  • Reserve: $40

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  • Name: Fontein Books
  • Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
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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.