Search Results: Titles starting with D from Fables Bookshop

Echoing Green Press 2007.. As new. no dustwrapper as issued.. Green vynide boards. 335pp 8vo. 35 contributed papers.

Echoing Green Press 2007.. As new. no dustwrapper as issued.. Green vynide boards. 335pp 8vo. Extended authorial (Jim Phelps) gift inscription to title page. 35 contributed papers.

Grun (1909).. Used, VG condition.. Coloured photographic view postcard. View over the town showing the pier. Franked Deutsches Reich 10 Pfg. stamp, franked delivery Hoopstad via Brandfort. Appears hand-coloured.

Grun 114. (1909).. Used, VG condition.. Coloured photographic view postcard. View over the bay with ships anchored. Franked Deutsches Reich 10 Pfg. stamp, franked delivery Hoopstad via Brandfort. Appears hand-coloured.

Grun (1909).. Used, VG condition.. Coloured photographic view postcard. View over the town. Franked Deutsches Reich 10 Pfg. stamp, franked delivery Hoopstad via Brandfort. Appears hand-coloured.

Otto Schulze & Co. Edinburgh 1908.. Minor insect attrition to top and front edges of front board only. 4 square corners, vellum dusty. a very sound copy. ff tanned, etchings unaffected.. Gilt on brown cloth boards, one quarter vellum spine, marbled end-papers. xxx + 60 etchings tipped in. 4to. Limited de Luxe edition No.40 of 150. Signed by D.Y. Cameron.

Hamish Hamilton. London 1989 1st edition.. No inscriptions but bookplate ffep. ff tanned throughout else VG+ in matching dustwrapper (minor wear only, no tears or loss). an attractive copy.. Grey cloth boards. 311pp 8vo.

Doubleday. London 1998 1st edition.. No inscription. a Fine copy in VG dustwrapper (spine fading, minor creasing top edge, no chips, tears, or loss).. Blue cloth boards 349pp 8vo. A novel of the coloured people in the Cape at the time of apartheid as seen through the eyes of eleven year old Lily Daniels. This was author's first novel.

Hippogriff Press 1989.. No inscriptions. a VG+ copy.. 62pp softcover. Some of the poems have previously appeared in Sesame, The English Academy Review, & Soundings.

Mambo Press. Gweru 2006.. Gift inscription. externally reinforced across top and bottom of spine, Good only, contents unmarked.. Printed wraps. 64pp stapled booklet. A collection of articles by Emil Holub as originally published in the Diamond News & the Eastern Star in 1877. An ephemeral item not often found.

Jonathan Ball. Johannesburg 1982 stated 1st edition. Small numeric annotation and name to ffep. Sello offset to front board from attachment of the dustwrapper (no loss, or tears, shows sello offset inside which show through lightly, one over the spine, no chips, loss, or tears). minor pencil marginal marks. overall a G-VG clean and attractive copy.. Pale yellow cloth boards. 528pp illustrated 8vo. A detailed biography of one of South Africa's most complex figures covering a period from 1871 to after WW2.

Ravan. Johannesburg 1977 stated 1st edition.. G+ condition.. Printed wraps. 161pp 8vo. Inscribed half-title thus: "To Chris Mann - December 1977 - Peter Wilhelm". Author's first novel.

Macmillan. London 1994 stated 1st edition, 1st printing.. No inscriptions, 4 square corners, edges mildly tanned, evidence of bump top rear corner only. Very light stain on top edge not affecting ff internally. Hence VG+ in VG+ dustwrapper (no chips, tears, or loss, but minor evidence of handling). Excellent table and shelf appearance.. Blue cloth boards. 295pp 8vo 0.6kg. Author's eleventh novel in the Inspector Morse series.

London nd.. VG+ condition.. Glossy folded colour & b/w images 210h x 150w. Model Card featuring images for NEVS, Klages Munich, Chadwicks Sydney, & Elite Chicago. Images credited to Adrian Gibb, Mark Junak, Ski Shoot, Daniella Federicci, & Greg Stone.

London nd.. VG condition.. Single card 210mm x 150mm. B/w portrait to front, blank rear. Model Card featuring image for NEVS. Image credited to Champion.

Van Riebeeck Society (VRS). Second Series No.5. Cape Town 1974.. Small faint ownership stamp to front pastedown. edges & eps tanned. G-VG condition, clean and sound. no dustwrapper as issued.. Chocolate cloth boards. xxx + 249pp. illustrated b/w plates, map. This volume of Livingstone's writings, which predates his travels, is concerned primarily with South African racial and missionary affairs as well as comments on traders. His bitter prejudice against the Boers emerges clearly, as do his conflicts with other missionaries., but his insights into local societies are nonetheless revealing.

Madrid nd.. VG condition.. Single card 210mm x 150mm. b/w images. Model Card featuring image for Stars Agency. Front image credited to Jan Mostert.

Jan Fourie, Gansbaai 2002.. Ownership inscription inside front wrap, overall VG condition. Wraps covered with transparent protective film neatly applied.. Printed wraps, 87pp. Signed by the author on title page. Describes the history and ecology of the island, its world famous great white sharks, seals and birds.

Bathurst 2022 3rd edition.. A Mint unread copy.. 301pp large format paperback. 0.4kg. Signed by Author to title page. When Richard Steele a wealthy farmer and businessman is murdered on his farm, Rhodes academic Bernie Bernard becomes embroiled in the aftermath. He manages to eliminate the many people who have a motive for killing Steele and uncovers a web of power, exploitation, and vengeance leading him to the identity of the killer. Set in Bathurst in the Eastern Cape this novel is deeply woven into the local community and its realities.

Viking Penguin. 2003. 1st edition.. No inscription. a Fine unread copy.. Printed wraps. 291pp illustrated b/w photos. 8vo. Author is a Johannesburg-based freelance journalist and television producer. Personal experiences under conflict in Rwanda, Zaire, Sudan, Kuwait, Israel, and Afghanistan to make you think.