Search Results: Authors starting with S from Fables Bookshop

G.S.J. Durban. (1914).. Some markings hence near VG condition.. Coloured photographic view postcard. Shows trams and tramways on dirt road, viewed from a high point facing out to greener suburbs..

New English Library. London 1975 stated first edition.. No inscription. booksellers ticket to front pastedown. a Fine copy Fine in dustwrapper.. Plum cloth boards. 189pp 8vo. Stories by Christopher Priest, Sydney F. Bounds, Terry Greenhough, Bob Shaw, Alan Harley, Robert Borski, Ian Watson, Olaf Stapledon, Scott Edelstein, Steve Chapman, Dan Morgan, Delia Leeslie, Jurgen vom Scheidt, Robert Wells, & Douglas Fulthope.

Modjaji Books. Cape Town 2010 1st edition.. No inscriptions. front wrap a little curled at edge hence VG+ only.. 216pp paperback. A collection of short stories by journalist author.

T.W. Griggs. Durban 1974. Facsimile of the Knox Printing 1929 edition.. No inscriptions, 4 square corners. eps foxed, ff age-tanned. One of the illustration pages has been cut to 50% losing images on both recto and verso. Thus a Poor copy although ourwardly attracticve. no dustwrapper.. Gilt on red textured vynide boards. 419pp illustrated 8vo. 0.9kg. Copy No.25 of 1000. An early biographical and informal history of Natal in the 18thC passing to the first few years of the following 20thC. Almos 200pp of interesting appendices mostly relating to Zulu customs and life.

Cambridge University Press 1971.. A Fine copy in near so dustwrapper.. Green cloth boards 159pp 8vo.

Self published. Glossop 1983.. VG condition.. Printed wraps. 96pp illustrated photos, maps etc. large 4to. 0.5kg. Author is a seasoned cyclist whose adventurous travels are done on a budget of 1.50 per day!

Deep South 2019.. Mint condition.. 61pp paperback. Author is a full time painter, sculptor, poet, and art teacher from New Brighton in Port Elizabeth.

Protea Book House. Pretoria 2005 1st edition.. No inscriptions. a Fine copy in matching dustwrapper.. Charcoal cloth boards. 165pp illustrated b/w photographs. large square 4to. Depicts the harsh realities of South African rural life and attendant poverty in photo-essays.

Marquette Studies In Philosophy No.62. Marquette University Press 2008.. No inscription. a VG+ copy.. Printed blue wraps. 430pp 8vo.

Cambridge Studies In Social Anthropology 20. Cambridge University Press 1st edition 1978.. Ownership inscription ffep else VG+ in lesser dustwrapper (spine faded and worn around head of spine, no loss or tears). contents unmarked. a nice copy.. Orange buckram boards. 303pp illustrated 8vo. Probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. Compares first and second generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. Explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural and urban born immigrants and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. Discusses the issues of migration, the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; questions of citizenship and national… Read More

Prentice-Hall 1981 1st edition.. Ownership inscription ffep. faded around spine. G-VG condition.. Printed wraps. 278pp large format. A total ethnographic and ethnological view of Africa, presenting a theoretical framework on which to place ethnological facts. Integrating African materials in terms of a theory of African society this is a readable and interesting account of the people of Africa.

Jonathan Ball. Johannesburg 1991.. No inscriptions. A very clean VG copy.. 542pp illustrated paperback. 0.8kg. The definitive biography of Olive Schreiner for the first 25 years of her life, prior to her departure from South Africa for England in 1881 and the subsequent publication of her first novel 'The Story Of An African Farm'. Translated from the Afrikaans.

South African Cultural History Museum. Cape Town 1991.. Bookplate to title page else VG+ condition.. Printed wraps 71pp illustrated b/w. Early seafarers passing the Cape left engraved stones covering their letters to be picked up by ships passing in the opposite direction. All the items depicted in this work are in the museum's collection of such artifacts.

VRS Second Series No.45. Van Riebeeck Society Cape Town 2014.. A Mint unread copy.. Chocolate cloth boards. 423pp. illustrated 8vo. 0.8kg. The World’s Great Question features over 300 of Olive Schreiner’s key letters on South African people, politics and its racial order. They are often prophetic and can still send shivers down the spine. Immensely readable and insightful, her South African letters bring home Schreiner’s importance as one of the world’s most famous women and a foundational figure in South African literature and its political life at key junctures in history.

ISEA. Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University 1974.. Ownership signature else as new.. 28pp stapled softcover. Extended introduction by editor. A fragment of Schreiner's writing from an incomplete manuscript.

The Ulysses Bookshop. London 1931 2nd imp.. Spine fading, boards rather marked. eps and edges foxed with some sporadic foxing here & there throughout. A sound reading copy.. Gilt titles on orange cloth boards. xiii + 95pp. addendum slip. 8vo.

Pall Mall. Library of African Affairs series. London 1968 1st edition.. Boards VG+. no inscriptions, but some underlinings in text and minor markings in margins. neatly written poem on rear of last text page. Nevertheless an extremely clean, crisp copy. no dustwrapper.. Olive cloth boards. xvi + 328pp. illustrated b/w photos, maps. An analytical account of Nigerian society and politics. It traces Nigerian history from the prehistoric "Nok" culture to the emergence of modern nationalism etc.

Balkema. Cape Town nd. c.1964. Gift inscription ffep hence VG condition.. Laminated card wraps. 64pp illustrated 48 b/w photographs. 12mo. A lovely story with three pelicans telling the story of their rescue.

Berg 1998.. Owners inscription ffep else near Fine condition.. 317pp illustrated paperback 8vo. 14 contributed papers. Analyses techniques and gendered aspects of the making of beads, as well as their role in trade and body adornment, in a wide range of societies from the ancient Mediterranean to Renaissance Venice, the southern United States to present-day Africa. Those of specific African interest include: Margret Carey, Gender In African Beadwork: An Overview. Joanne Eicher, Beaded & Bedecked Kalabari Of Nigeria. Ann O'Hear, Lantana Beads: Gender Issues In Their Production And Use.

OSIEA (2010).. No inscriptions. VG condition.. Printed wraps 76pp. Examines the compliance of Ugandan electoral law and practice with international and regional standards in the light of the then upcoming 2011 presidential and legislative elections.