Glasgow: The Grand Colosseum Warehouse Co., undated. Hardcover. Heinrich Barth (1821-1865) was a German scholar born in Hamburg. He achieved fame as an African explorer. His scholarly gifts helped him to learn many African languages and produce very careful documentation of the places and peoples he visited. There were multiple..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Ltd., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. This first and limited edition collects two letters written by Kipling to his American publishers, Frank Nelson Doubleday and his son Nelson Doubleday. The first letter was written to Nelson, and used as the Foreword to A...... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Stanislaw ochowski (1908-1999), "a prominent Polish Officer" during the Second World War, relates his view of "how Eastern Europe was lost by the British into the hands of Stalin's empire." Much of the book is dedicated to Churchill's policies relating to Poland..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. William Plomer (1903-1973) was born in South Africa to English parents. His first novel brought him notoriety when published in 1925, dealing as it did with inter-racial marriage. Both a novelist and a poet, Plomer was also known as one of Ian..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office Press, 1952. First edition. Pamphlet. This pamphlet publishes speeches delivered before Parliament by MP Emrys Hughes on 6th, 10th, and 18th March 1952 during the second and final premiership of Winston S. Churchill. This copy is in very good minus condition. This 13-page pamphlet is..... More
Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Lady Anne Barnard (1850-1925) was born in Scotland, and married Andrew Barnard, a son of the Bishop of Limerick. The couple moved to Cape Town in 1797, where Lady Barnard remained for 5 years. This volume is edited with an introduction..... More
London? Pamphlet. This undated, unattributed booklet contains 315 tongue twisters. The cover illustration of a boy and girl wearing “H.M.S.” caps leads us to conclude that this is a British wartime publication intended for children. We surmise that this may be one of the many small format books produced to..... More
Published for the Trustees of the South African Bird Book Fund by A. A. Balkema, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cuthbert John (Jack) Skead (1912-2006) was a South African ornithologist, although he was originally trained as a sheep and dairy farmer. During his career, he published more than 100 articles and..... More
New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1890 (nd). Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Last Days of Pompeii is Lord Lytton's 1834 novel inspired by the namesake painting by Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Lytton had seen in Milan. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), was an English..... More
Johannesburg: Constantia, 1946. 1st 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, one of a thousand copies..... More
Johannesburg: Constantia, 1956. 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 contains verse in Afrikaans, and..... More
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