Search Results: Titles starting with G from Fables Bookshop

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 2009 1st edition.. No inscriptions. a Very Fine copy.. Printed boards. 58pp illustrated colour. 240mm x 1802mm. 0.5kg. Cartoonish drawings of surreal hunks by a master of the genre.

Colt Studio. New York (1977).. Near Fine copies.. 34pp +34pp stapled 220mm x 140mm booklets illustrated colour & b/w.

Colt Studio. New York (1977).. Near Fine copy.. 34pp stapled 220mm x 140mm booklet illustrated colour & b/w.

Colt Studio. New York (1975).. VG-Fine condition.. 34pp stapled 220mm x 140mm booklet illustrated colour & b/w.

Atlantic Books. London 2008 stated 1st edition.. A very Fine copy in VG+ dustwrapper.. Green cloth boards. 132pp 8vo. A collection of short stories by the author.

Fernwood Press & National Botanical Institute. Cape Town 1994 1st edition.. Ownership inscription to both eps else a Fine copy in VG dustwrapper (light wear and rubbing, no chips, tears, or loss).. Gilt on mango cloth boards. 96pp illustrated 21 full-page coloured plates, photographs. 4to 0.9kg. The beautiful plates by Ellaphie Ward-Hillhorst and the detailed descriptions will please layman and scientist alike.

Purnell. Johannesburg 1970 1st edition.. Four square corners, eps, prelims. a little foxed else VG+ in matching dustwrapper (slightly tanned but no chips, tears, or loss).. Blue cloth boards. xviii + 342pp. Illustrated photos. maps. large 8vo. 0.9kg. Inscribed by Author ffep thus: "To Brigadier John & Seti Daniel. J.A. Brown". Covers the early history of the SAAF as well as the campaigns in Italian East Africa during World War 2.An excellent copy.

African Sun. Cape Town 2001.. No inscriptions, a VG-Fine copy.. Printed wraps. 46pp 8vo. Author's 4th collection of poetry.Women victims of war form the central theme of poems which capture the plight of refugees and displaced persons in Africa. "I see madonnas in grocery shops, on pavements, on the grass verges of highways. They have, all of them, a certain poetic elegance, a poignancy. Many of these madonnas are refugees from war and in their eyes are simple longings which the world should listen to: longings for an end to war and a return home; longings to find their lost children; longings for a simple peace".

Hollandsch - Afrikaansche Uitgevers Maatschappij. Amsterdam & Kaapstad 1904.. Spine taped over, well worn, a Fair copy only. Map has no tears. Overall sound as is but unattractive and in need of some TLC.. Pictorial Boards. ix + 576pp, fold-out map at rear, illustrated. 310mm x 250mm x 401mm. 2.6kg. Afrikaans text. Illustrated history of the Anglo Boer War from the Afrikaans point of view.

Viking 1984 1st edition.. No inscriptions. G-VG in G+ dustwrapper (rubbed but no chips, loss, or tears).. Blue cloth boards. 128pp 8vo. "The True Story Of A Flight Over Africa". Inspired by Gurdjief, Cecil Lewis set off in the autumn of 1947 to fly from England to South Africa in the hope that he could preserve a fragment of a new religious teaching for posterity. The title comes from the Miles Gemini light aircraft that he flew.

Department of Agriculture, Botanical Research Institute. Pretoria 1975 & 1976. isbn for Vol.2 970621028638.. No inscriptions. VG+ condition, no dustwrapper. A excellent pair of copies.. Green vynide boards. Vol.1. 756pp. Vol.2. 284pp. small 4to. set 2.3kg. Volume 1. Dicotyledons. Volume 2. Gymnosperms And Monocotyledons. A revision of the E.P. Phillips 1951 2nd edition.

A.A Balkema. Kaapstad 1970 1st edition.. Gift inscription to title page hence VG only in lesser dustwrapper (heavily soiled but no major loss or tears). four square corners, very attractive out of dustwrapper.. One quarter brown 'leather' over plum paper-covered boards. 223pp illustrated plates, maps. 4to. The first of a (projected) two-volume examination of Louis Botha's military career in the Boer War. Includes the original book review clipped from the Cape Times.

Abridged edition. James Currey / Unesco. California 1989.. No inscription. VG condition.. 349pp paperback. Chapters contributed by individual academic specialists in their fields form a unified history.

J.L. Van Schaik Limited. Pretoria 1929. 1st English edition.. A Good clean copy. various stamps to eps. no dustwrapper.. Gilt title on green cloth boards. 351pp illustrated 8vo. Introduction by J.C. Smuts.

Oxford University Press. Cape Town 1992.. Ownership inscrip ffep else in VG condition.. 306pp softcover.

Government Printer. 1985 5th edition.. No inscriptions, 4 square corners. VG-F in rubbed G+ dustwrapper (no loss or tears).. Gilt on green skivertex boards. viii + 478pp. illustrated maps, b/w photos etc. 2 1:1500000 maps & stratigraphic column in rear pocket. indexed. A4 format 1.6kg.

Government Printer. 1976 5th edition.. No inscription, 4 square corners. VG-F in lightly rubbed G-VG dustwrapper.. Gilt on green skivertex boards. viii + 478pp. illustrated maps, b/w photos etc. 2 1:1500000 maps & stratigraphic column in rear pocket. indexed. A4 format 1.7kg.

Barrie & Jenkins. London 1988.. No inscriptions. VG+ condition in dustwrapper.. Light cloth boards. 328pp illustrated 4to.

Dictum. Randburg 1988 1st edition. (Not the later slim 64pp publication by Pavilion / Trafalgar Square of 1999 of the same name and with the same cover picture).. Ownership signature ffep. the boards have 4 square corners. Donation label (South African Breweries) to ffep. eps tanned. top edge spotted as are top edges of boards. All in matching dustwrapper (spine shows minor wear and is slightly off colour, no chips, tears, or loss.). An excellent copy in most respects. Shy of a strict 'Fine' appellation but still such as to be treated carefully with excellent unmarked contents.. Stone buckram boards. 294pp illustrated colour oblong 4to. dustwrapper with french folds. errata slip. 250mm x 230mm x 30mm. 1.6kg. An extensive collection of his work from around 1938 to the 1980s. Artist, now deceased, lived in exile in France for over 40 years and contributed his 21pp autobiographical outline to this book.

Tafelberg 1987.. No inscriptions. VG condition.. 116pp softcover. A play.