African Languages from

(no place: Theoria, no date). Offprint from the journal 'Theoria'. 215 x 137 mm; saddle-stitched booklet, without wraps, as issued; pp. (i) + [44-54]; front page included in pagination. Very good condition. Essential introduction to the subject. "It would seem almost inaccurate to write of Zulu literature at all, for its written content is so small and its writers… Read more about this item

([Pietermaritzburg/Durban]: University of Natal, no date). Facsimile reproduction of the 1858 edition sold by Trübner and Co. and Brockhaus. 8vo; light brown cloth, with gilt-on-red and gilt-on-black lettering pieces to spine; pp. (ii) + 261; charts, incl. folding. Some spotting to top edge and endpapers. Very good condition. The volume includes two parts: Part 1 has to do with "South… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1963). Revised edition of the work first published in 1954. 8vo; original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xii + 250, incl. index. Cloth very slightly mottled to backstrip; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; starting at gutter between prelims. and main text; some foxing to edges and endpapers. Good condition. (Murphy… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1949). 4to; original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xxvi + 903. Bottom edges slightly shelf-rubbed; occasional fox spot; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. (Doke Collection, p. 84; Murphy & Goff, 1097) "The compilers based their initial work upon A. T. Bryant's 1905 Zulu-English Dictionary, with the… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 2006) 0958513414. Second Series No. 37. 8vo; original dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xlv + (v) + 374, incl. index and publisher's catalogue; frontis.; maps; some illustrations. Near-fine condition. "Words of Batswana presents a selection of letters and… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: University of Cape Town and South African Library, 1956). Willem Hiddingh Reprint Series, No. 10. A facsimile reprint of the 1834 Grahamstown edition. Small quarto; cloth-backed marbled boards; pp. (x) + 54. Boards slightly rubbed; occasional fox spot; some pages working loose, but all present. Good condition. (Mendelssohn I, p. 178 [2nd edition]; Schapera, L82 [1st edition]) "The… Read more about this item

(Lovedale, The Lovedale Press, 1953). 8vo; original pale blue cloth; pp. 94. Cover somewhat worn and a little soiled; tape stains to endpapers; ownership inscription on front free endpaper; sporadic light foxing. Fair condition. (Murphy and Goff, A Bibliography of African Languages and Linguistics, 1109 [1961 revision]). .

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) 9780521739573. 228 x 151 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xx + 378, incl. index; maps, illustrations, facsimiles in text. Fine condition. "Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores,… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1975) 0195700694. 8vo; original blue and white cloth; dustwrapper; pp. xx + 196. Dustwrapper somewhat browned and very slightly edgeworn; a little foxing. Good to very good condition. "This most unusual and exciting dictionary lists vocabulary, idiom and pronunciation used by English speakers in South Africa; there are many words and phrases… Read more about this item

(Pietermaritzburg & Durban: P. Davis and Sons, 1903). 183 x 125 mm; side-stitched wrappers; pp. 51. Archival tape reinforcing to spine; earlier owner's name signed on upper cover and Contents page; a little foxing and curling. Good condition. Oddly, the cover gives 1903 as the year of publication, whereas the title page has 1902. (Strange Collection,… Read more about this item

(New York: Gramercy Books, 2007) 9780517229217. 8vo; original yellow boards; laminated dustwrapper; pp. xxvii + (v) + 171. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed; tiny bump to bottom edge of lower board. Very good condition. "From Adoa to Zahara offers more than a thousand names from African life, lakes and rivers, towns and cities, and words in many different… Read more about this item

(Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1954). 190 x 140 mm; printed card wrappers; pp. 281. Pages unopened and wrappers a little sunned. Good condition. (Murphy & Goff, 436 [1st edition]) Title page gives 1913 as the date of publication, but the upper wrapper has 1954. Bambara is a language spoken by around 3 million inhabitants… Read more about this item

(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1904). Demy 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and in blind to upper cover; pp. viii + (ii) + 177, incl. index. Cloth mottled and stippled, and worn at extremities; edges and outer leaves foxed, some spotting elsewhere; some annotations. Fair to good. (Strange Collection 1164 [Earlier… Read more about this item

(Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, no date). 12mo; cloth-backed papered boards; pictorial endpapers; pp. 120; line drawings. Boards a bit rubbed and slightly soiled; Hermannsburg Seminary ink stamp to half-title; some minor foxing. Good. Translation in isiZulu of Geraldine Elliot's African folk tales, with the charming Sheila Hawkins illustrations. .

(Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, no date c. 1930s). 180 x 120 mm; card wrappers; pp. 68 + x . Wrappers fragmented and detached. Fair condition. Strange Collection #1171 records this edition. .

(Pretoria: Communications of the University of South Africa C59, 1968). 212 x 140 mm; original cream card wrappers; pp. 24. Very good condition. Analysis of the adoption of foreign words into Zulu. .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1997) 0624034801. Zulu translation by Sipho Ndlovu. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; unpaginated (pp. 32); charming full-colour illustrations. As new. Zulu translation of the delightful children's story 'Lulama's Magic Blanket'. "ULulama unengubo yokulala ethungwe ngeziqephu yenziwa ngomlingo othile oyimfihlo. Uma edlala ngayo ngaphandle, ikwazi ukuphenduka ibe yinoma yini acabanga ukuthi iyiyona ... "… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1997) 062403481X. Zulu translation by Sipho Ndlovu. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; unpaginated (pp. 32); charming full-colour illustrations. As new. A delightful children's story about a boy and a pig. Zulu text. "UMusa ufuna isipho azosinika unina, futhi unesikhwama somlingo azosifaka kusona lesi sipho. Izinto azihambi ngendlela acabanga ngayo, kodwa yize kunjalo,… Read more about this item

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913). Demy 8vo; original green cloth, with upper cover lettered in blind, and spine gilt-lettered; pp. xviii + 579. Cloth rather stippled, and spine browned; penned quotation from Goethe to front free endpaper; rather foxed and somewhat browned throughout; damp-stain to fore-edge. Fair condition. (SABIB 3, p. 661) Concerning Charles Pettman… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, Volume 19, No. 2, 1960). Small quarto, wraps, pp. (49-)112. Light foxing. Some changes in the social structure of the Tlhaping of the Taung Reserve. Contributions to the Study of Creole. The Implosive-Explosive contrast in Manyika. .