Search Results: Authors starting with A from Quagga Books

A.A. Balkema. Largely pictorial volume with b/w and some colour illustrations. Issued w/o dust jacket, bound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to top board. Slight scuffing to boards and spotting to top edge. Endpapers lightly browned. Mild foxing to the top edge. 280 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Binding: Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt device and lettering. The lettering is dull on the spine. Light edge-wear and sunning.

A.A. Balkema. Largely pictorial volume with b/w and some colour illustrations. Issued w/o dust jacket, bound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt image to top board. Mild browning to end papers. Mild foxing to top and foreedges. 280 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Good to very good. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gilt image and dull lettering on the spine. Some light edge-wear.

A.A. Balkema, 1952. Largely pictorial volume with b/w and some colour illustrations. Issued w/o dust juacket, bound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to top board. Slight scuffing to boards and spotting to top edge. Endpapers lightly browned. A very good copy.

H. Garratt-Adams & Co., 1956. Limited and signed edition of this booklet on OFS postal markings between 1868 & 1910. This is No.1 of 125 copies and signed on the limitation page. Bound in orange cloth boards with black lettering and device to front board. Edges are browned, otherwise a Very Good ++ copy.

Archibald Constable and Co., 1897. A novelette. Front and rear end papers split at gutter with faded stamp and marks to the front fep. Edge-wear. Cloth boards stained and grubby. 1cm splits to the cloth at spine edges. Light toning to the page edges. Text clean.

Phaidon, 1960. A Study of the Development of the Kouros Type in Greek Sculpture

Howard Timmins, 1965. Artist's monograph with numerous reproductions in colour and b/w. Bound in full leather with gilt titles to front board and spine. AEG. Limited to 100 copies of which this is 60. Some rubbing to the board edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Ghosting to prelims.

Howard Timmins, 1965. Artist's monograph with numerous reproductions in colour and b/w. Some light foxing to the edges of the end papers. 82 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good+. Dust jacket: Good-. Edge-wear with some creasing. 1cm closed tears to top and bottom edge. Lightly soiled covers. Binding: Hardcover. Gilt lettering to spine and cover.

A A Balkema. Signed deluxe edition. 1/4 leather binding. From the rear cover of the book: Paintings and drawings from earliest times up to the year 1900 are discussed and considerable attention has been given to the neglected subject of prints on South African interest. Profusely illustrated with 197 monochromes and 19 colour plates. Includes a magnificent Cape Panorama by Josephus Jones (a folding colour plate), a slave band of 15 musicians in Hussar uniforms in drawn up under the old trees to welcome Lord Charles Somerset to Bergvliet, et al. Small blue bookseller's label on front fixed end paper. 254 pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Heavy item and may incur additional postage oversea. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Edge-wear. Some creasing and rubbing with a long straight crease to the front flyleaf. 2.5cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover. Light toning on the verso in the spine area. Binding: Hardcover. Marbled boards over leather spine. Some light edge-wear.

Shuter & Shooter, 1936. With Historical Introductions and Notes" Based in part on responses to Bird's (Annals of Natal) request for more information from settlers who arrived prior to 1852. The book concerns itself primarily with the first generation of Natal's history as a British settlement. 256pp plus an index.

Imprimerie Georges Bridel & Cie., 1896. Language: French. Translation: "Tribe and Thonga Language with some examples of Thonga Folklore." Compliment slip from Messrs Luzac & Co. with pencilled notes to the back regarding the Tekeza language. Previous owner's name on front cover. Foxing to verso of linguistic map of the Thonga Tribe. Scattered marginalia. Pages age-toned.

1959. A biography, written to commemorate some prominent members of the Heese family.

Stellenbosch Museum, 1985. An inquiry into the sources of Cape architecture & a survey of built-in early Cape domestic woodwork. With 1600 illustrations, 8 in colour. Inscribed by Malherbe to the previous owner. Limited to 1600 numbered copies. A difinitive work on the subject. First edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Hardcover

F. Newbery, 1780. 18 portrait plates. Top edge of the fep bearing previous owner's name removed. Gutters and spine professionally repaired with tissue. Repaired tears to a few pages of text. Some age toning, foxing and spotting.

H Meulenhoff, 1950. Text: Dutch. Country houses designed by Jan Rebel [1885-1961], richly illustrated and described with photographs and plans. Bookplate of previous owner on ffep with small bookseller's label on front paste-down.

Harrison, 1855. With a sketch of the public affairs connected with the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, during his administration as colonial secretary from 1843 to 1853. New end papers. Foxing to front and rear prelims with scattered foxing throughout. Faded red tint to all edges. 612 Pages. Binding tight. 1st Edition. Rebound. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Rebound with green leather boards. Title on red label on spine. Edge-wear especially around the spine area, bands and corners. Sunning to spine.

Longmans, Green and Co.. Being some account of the less notable features of the South African War from the point of view of the Australian Ranks. Light scattered foxing. 264 Pages. Binding sound. 9th Impression. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards. Edge-wear to extremities. Some rubbing to the cloth. Some light soiling to the boards. Fading to the gilt and lettering on the spine.

The Palestine Art Publishing Co. Ltd. Text: Hebrew/English. 25 coloured lithographs reproduced by the author. Issued by the Palestine Art Publishing Co. Ltd. Jerusalem. No published date. circa 1924. Publisher's device printed to inside covers and on title page. Mild scattered foxing but not affecting the images.

A A Balkema, 1960. Text: Afrikaans. Stain marks to the prelims with a small stain mark to the last 6 pages. Some minor foxing to prelims. Tape ghosting to the front and rear end papers.

The South African Institute of Arabic and Islamic Research, 1980. A social history of Islam at the Cape. 39 illustrations (including frontispiece). Scattered pencil marginalia and underlining. 236 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair. Binding: Softcover. Heaving edge-wear with some abrasions.