New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. "James Justinian Morier, (born c.1780, Smyrna, Tur. - died March 19, 1849, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.), English diplomat and writer whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian life that long influenced English ideas of Persia;..... More
1935. First edition. Leaflet. This is a flier seeking funding for the T. E. Lawrence memorial in St. Paul’s Cathedral, published in August 1935. Just a few years before the Second World War, Winston Churchill wrote of his friend, T. E. Lawrence: "The impression of the personality of Lawrence remains..... More
Johannesburg: Constantia, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Elisabeth Eybers (1915-2007) was a South African poet. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1934. In 1943, she became the first Afrikaans woman to win the Hertzog Prize, the most prestigious award in Afrikaans literature. This volume, featuring verse in Afrikaans, is..... More
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. Hardcover. Issued as part of "The Royal Library Historical Series". 317 pages with extensive index at pages 319-349. Attractive contemporary binding in three-quarter brown leather over green cloth boards with raised spine bands and gilt rule compartments and double gilt rules at transitions, top edge..... More
Augusta, Maine: KJ Printing, n.d. First edition. Hardcover. This undated and privately printed account of the author’s trip to East Africa is handsomely produced, with endpapers featuring detailed color maps of Uganda and Kenya charting the course of Weston’s journey, and illustrated with 17 color photographs. The binding is heavy..... More
Johannesburg: Longmans Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd., 1967. First edition. Hardcover. This book is a portrait of the people of District 6, an area of Cape Town in South Africa perhaps best known for forced removal of tens of thousands of its inhabitants by the apartheid regime in the 1970s (after..... More