Fontein Books

Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
Country of Origin South Africa
Email: fontein@wol.co.za
Trade Association: AA Approved
Additional Info: Fontein Books has for several years participated in Antiquarian Auctions and its predecessor. Its countrywide reputation is based on limiting its collection to very good or better copies of recently published books, good or very copies of older books, and books in a lesser condition only when their rarity justifies this. Fontein specialises in books on the Free State and Northern Karoo, and is an active buyer and seller in these fields. It also has reasonable holdings of Africana, both Anglo-Boer wars, biography, history, military history, natural history, travel and English literature. Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, was an editor, writer and small publisher for more than forty years.

Results in Auction #27

Lot Author Title Hammer Price
94 Gewande, Herbert Werner Suedwestafrika postal history (1 item) $25
98 Wyndham, L A and others African Airpost History (3 items) $25
129 Duckitt, Hildagoda J Hilda's Where Is It? of Recipes $60
290 War Correspondents and others Cape Times Weekly Edition 751, 23 May 1900 (Mafeking Relieved) $50
294 Laband, John and Ian Knight The War Correspondents. The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 $42
406 Krige, Jan American Sympathy in the Boer War $50
411 Holden, Bishop William C, W H Middleton and others Orange Free State Monthly Magazine February 1878 bound with the Appendix on the Orange River Sovereignty to Holden's 1855 History of the Colony of Natal $100