Search Results: Authors starting with L from Quagga Books

Botanical Research Institute. Dept of Agriculture Technical Services. A revision of the South African species of Kniphofia. 27 Colour plates and a number of b&w photographs and illustrations. Some light foxing to all edges. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Limp cardwraps. Staple-bound. Some mild edge-wear.

Jonathan Ball. A dramatic emergence and tragic decline of the Zulu Kingdom. Light foxing to the top edge. 517 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Some rubbing to the spine.

Jonathan Ball. An account of the war as it appeared to the professional and amateur war correspondents, describing not only pitched battles but the human drama of everyday campaigning. A number of photographs. 170 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good-. Some edge-wear. 2cm closed tear to top edge. Some mild foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover.

C Struik. No. 43 of 100 De Luxe edition copies of 2000 numbered copies. 4 maps. 68 illustrations. Bookplate of previous owner pasted on front fep. Some age-toning and foxing to front and rear prelims. 536 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. De Luxe. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Full leather boards with gilt lettering.

Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Small booklet giving a short account of the more conspicuous flowers of the bush, scrub and alpine meadows of New Zealand. 15 b&w photographs. 32 Pages. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Thin card-wraps. Staple-bound with discolouration around the staples.

Hachette , 1953. Black and White stills of mostly horses, from the film.

Pula Press and The Botswana Society. Published after a symposium held to consider the archaeology of Botswana. Numerous illustrations and colour photographs. Map at the rear. 263 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Boards in very good condition.

Nasionale Pers, Bpk. This little book was written to encourage English-speaking parliamentarians to use and understand Afrikaans. Written with humour yet conveys the skills needed in a friendly and useful manner. Previous owner's name on end papers. Underling and foxing throughout with some marginalia. Toning to all pages. 128 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair-. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with edge-wear to all extremities. Fraying with some splitting to the header and footer of spine. Some scattered abrasions and small discolouration marks. Sunning to spine.

Nasionale Pers, Beperk. Text: Afrikaans. 22 South African folk songs. eg. Wat Maake oom Kalie Daar?; Japie, My Skapie; My Dina; Gaggabie; Die Vierperdewa; Vanaand gaan die Volkies; Die Kolperd; Jan Pierewiet; and others. Notes and lyrics on one page with the verses opposite. Endpapers replaced. Bookplate, some foxing and toning to end papers. Foxing with grubby marks throughout. Small discolouration marks from old cellotape repairs to some of the pages. Title page lacks a piece of the lower corner. 4cm closed tear to Pages 13. Lacks the upper corners of Page 55/56. Condition: Fair to good-. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Some mild edge-wear.

David Philip Publishers. Biography of the artist mostly derived from personal letters and interviews. Colour and black-and-white illustrations. 171 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Mild edge-wear. Sunning to spine.

Methuen Children's Books. 22 of Larsson's beautiful watercolors recreating farm and family life in a Swedish village accompanied by text. Small bookseller label on front fixed end paper. Foxing to a couple of pages and to all edges. Unpaginated. English Edition. Condiion: Fair to Good. Binding: Hardcover. Foxing to edges. Cloth spine. Some grubby marks.

Karl Robert Langewiesche. Text: German. With sixteen watercolor reproductions and around 50 illustrations based on the artist's drawings. Age toning to pages. Tidemark to lower edges of the prelims. The first 14 pages are coming loose from the text block but still intact. Otherwise contents clean and illustrations bright and clear. 74 Pages. Reprint. Condition: Good-. Binding: Softcover. Thick cardwraps with edge-wear to extremities. Some cockling. Lacks the top and lower spine edges. 0.5cm open tear on front cover. 10.5cm and a 2cm split at the gutter of the front cover. 26.6cm x 19.2cm x 1cm.

Methuen Children's Books. Fifteen of Larsson's beautiful watercolors of his home and family life in a Swedish village accompanied by text. Foxing to front and rear prelims. Small bookseller label on front fixed end paper. Unpaginated. 1st Edition. Condition: Good-. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth spine. Some light edge-wear.

Struik (Pty) Ltd. No. 9 of a limited printing of 1000 copies. With a new introduction by Frank R Bradlow. Marbled end papers. Some mild thumbing. Includes fold-out map. 406 Pages. Facsimile reprint. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Full green leather boards with sunning to spine.

Struik (Pty) Ltd. No.31 of a limited printing of 1000 copies. With a new introduction by Frank R Bradlow. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner on front fep. Some thumbing. 406 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. De Luxe Edition. Facsimile Reprint. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Full leather boards with mild edge-wear. Small split to upper spine edge.

1985. Front card wrap has crease line. Pencil marginalia throughout with some ink markings at the Index of Palms. Foxing to page edges. Contents well bound.

An overview of South African spiders. B&w photographs and illustrations accompany this published paper. 64 Pages. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear. Don

Mandrake Press Ltd. The author's own "post-script or afterthought" to this enduring and popular novel. Toning to the front and rear feps with some mild foxing. 62 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair. Edge-wear with 1cm closed tear. Insect damage to front panel. Sunning. Binding: Hardcover. Blue cloth. Specks of foxing to front board. 2 small stain marks.

J & A Churchill. Scattered light foxing throughout with foxing to all page edges. Small bookseller's labe on rear fixed end paper. Edge-wear to page 179. Contents firmly bound. Second Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt lettering on spine and cover. Edge-wear to extremities, Light abrasions to front cover.

Includes original lithograph by D'Esteve and De Capogrossi. Small stain to each page on the upper fore-edge from Page 121 to Page 148. Some soiling marks to Pages 18,19, 22, 28, 29, 30. Condition: Good-. Binding: Hardcover. Pictorial Boards. 1cm open tear to the boards at the footer of the spine. Som edge-wear to extremities. Mild sunning to the edges of the rear board. Tiny open tear to the header of the spine on the cover.