New York: British Library of Information, 1941. Pamphlet. This Second World War leaflet describes Britain’s air raid procedures as part of the British Library of Information’s continued attempt to inform and sway the American people. Though no publication date is stated, WorldCat lists this as a 1941 publication, produced before..... More
Johannesburg: Cape to Cairo Publications, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is an anthology of short stories from South African writers with a Foreword by Lord de Villiers. Condition is very good in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is tight, clean, and square, retaining bright spine gilt..... More
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
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. James Miranda Stuart Barry was a military surgeon in the British Army. It was revealed upon his death that he was actually a woman – it is believed that he was born with the name Margaret Ann Bulkley. Barry was..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First edition. Hardcover. This is the English first edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories. To all of the stories collected in Mine Own People except ‘A conference of the Powers’ (later to be included in Many Intentions (1893)), in this volume Kipling added sixteen..... 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
New York: British Library of Information, 1941. Pamphlet. This early wartime pamphlet, published in August 1941, is both aesthetically striking and testimony to the vital British effort to court the American public. This 8-page, wire-stitched pamphlet has a front cover printed in blue, red, and black, with a prominent “V”..... 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
New York: British Information Services, 1944. Pamphlet. This original Second World War pamphlet was part of Britain’s effort to communicate to Americans that “Lend-Lease is not a one-way street” by sharing “Examples of British aid to the United States”. This wartime survivor printed on brittle, acidic paper is only in..... 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
Switzerland: Swan Productions AG, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. From the dedication: "1900 - Winds of change were sweeping over Africa. It took the Marabu on the Nile by surprise and caught up with medicine men on the Congo as well as the Boers on the Cape of Good Hope. It..... More
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Bound in dark green paper-covered boards with black paper-covered spine and pasted paper front cover label. Measuring 10.25 x 12.5 inches with eight attractive color plates (tipped in) and a Foreword by S. Lane. With original publisher's advert laid in..... 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. First edition. Periodical. This March 1915 issue of Scribner’s Magazine contains writing from Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy (1867-1933) and full page color plates of the building of the Panama Canal. This Vol. LVII, No. 3 issue is in very good minus condition..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1998. English-language Edition. Hardcover. Spanning the 12th through the early 20th Centuries. The artists are represented by 266 full-color illustrations of their most important and characteristic paintings, accompanied by concise, authoritative discussions of their life and works. This is a massive, impressive, and..... More
Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 1500, this being No. 624, with the title page inscribed by the author. From the Preface: "This is the story of the fairest Cape in the whole circumference of the earth. It is a story that has its..... More
J & J Colman's, c. 1950s. Pamphlet. Here we offer an unusual piece of advertising ephemera, a children’s book produced by Colman’s Mustard. This short story tells of the Three Mustardeers who defeat a dragon despite their apparently constant need to stop and eat Colman’s products. This pamphlet is undated..... 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