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Howard Timmins, C1940. 6 folk stories from the Amaxosa, Basuto, Zulus and the Shangaan. Brightly coloured illustrations protected with tissue guard. Some light foxing to the prelims and all edges. Some scattered light cockling to the upper corners. 222 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Fair to poor. Open tears to spine edges and read cover. Cockling and creasing. Closed tears and folds reinforced with clear tape on the verso. Binding: Hardcover. Green cloth with some light edge-wear to extremities.
Badoli the Ox A Story of the Amaxosa by Bourke, Myles - 1950
by Bourke, Myles
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Badoli the Ox A Story of the Amaxosa
by Bourke, Myles
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Cape Town: sometime in the 1940s]. Good in Fair dust jacket. 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Oversize [about 8.75" x 11.25"] green cloth with black spine lettering/rules, 222 pages, illustrated [including 12 tissue-guarded, tipped-in, color illustrations]. Collection of South African Bantu legends [retold by the author "so as to appeal to the European reader"]. Besides the title story also includes: "Temba and Seliba: A Stroy of The Sasuto", "The Malambanone Tree: A Story of the Shangaan", "The Lake of Frogs: A Story of the Zulus", "The Laughing Rogue: A Story of the Basuto", and "Vuyani and the Goddess of Rain: A Story of the Zulus". Bookseller's ticket [Franceska Bookshop of Perth] affixed to the lower right corner of the front paste-down.
Good only copy, lightly bumped, scattered discoloration to the cloth mostly at the spine ends, significant page edge foxing, light soiling to the endpapers; but the text and illustrations are clean and the hinges are not cracked, in worn and significantly chipped, dust-soiled, price-clipped jacket with some cellophane tape reinforcement.
bx403E
Good only copy, lightly bumped, scattered discoloration to the cloth mostly at the spine ends, significant page edge foxing, light soiling to the endpapers; but the text and illustrations are clean and the hinges are not cracked, in worn and significantly chipped, dust-soiled, price-clipped jacket with some cellophane tape reinforcement.
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- Illustrator Stella Bailey
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition Fair
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher H. B. Timmins
- Place of Publication Cape Town
- Date Published 1950
- Pages 222
- Size 4to
- Keywords SOUTH, AFRICA, AFRICAN, FOLKLORE, AMAXOSA, BASUTO, SHANGAAN, ZULUS, BANTU
- Size 4to
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Badoli the Ox. A Story of the Amaxosa
by Bourke, Myles
- Used
- Hardcover
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- Hardcover
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