Search Results: Titles starting with I from Fables Bookshop

Boston Mills Press. Ontario 1979.. No inscriptions. VG condition. 184pp paperback illustrated b/w photos. Interesting oral history of reminiscences by teachers in rural Ontario from the early 1900s.

Published privately Somerset West 1985.. No inscriptions. bookplate ffep. a VG-Fine unread copy, no dustwrapper.. Gilt device and title on blue vynide boards. 317pp 8vo. 0.9kg. "This edition is limited to 15 copies". Unumbered copy. Schooled at St Ninians in Dumfriesshire, and then at Fettes. Biographee came to East Africa in 1914 after some time spent in Malaysia and the Kenya and later enlisted in the Kenya African Rifles. He retired from Kenya to George in South Africa in 1947 until his death aged 98 in 1983. Interesting tales from the lighter side of a varied life.

The Book Club 1959.. No inscriptions, pages tanned. VG/VG.. Green cloth boards. 190pp 8vo.

Lovedale Press 1982.. No inscriptions. Good clean copy, no dustwrapper.. Blue cloth boards. 167pp illustrated 8vo. errata slip. Autobiography of blind Presbyterian minister who served in Volksrust, Alice, & Wellington, then retiring to the Hogsback in the Eastern Cape.

Folio Verlag Bolzano / South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. 2000 3rd edn.. No inscriptions. a Mint unread copy.. Glossy stiff card wraps with fold-ins. 54pp illustrated softcover 8vo. Interesting newspaper clipping providing some updates.

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 1996.. A Fine copy.. White card wraps with attached dustwrapper. illustrated b/w. large format. 300mm x 245mm. 0.8kg. Published posthumously this features studied b/w images shown in an industrial landscape of abandoned buildings and their resultant detritus.

John Hopkins University Press. 1991 1st edition thus.. No inscriptions. VG condition.. 261pp softcover.

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 1998.. No inscriptions, 4 square corners. a Fine copy.. Printed boards. illustrated 109 colour images. 190mm x 150mm. 0.5kg. Author's first publication in print.

Macmillan. Johannesburg 1976 1st edition.. No inscriptions. VG in lesser dustwrapper (spine faded, worn & rubbed, no major loss or tears).. Navy cloth boards. 316pp. illustrated b/w photos. cartoons etc. Foreword by Alan Paton.

2022.. A Mint unread copy.. 106pp softcover. A5 format 0.2kg. Text in Xhosa. Blessings accrue to children from respecting their family, parents, and elders. The Author says "Blessings Of Honouring Parents. 'Parents' refers to not only the biological parents, but also to all elderly people who are thus regarded as 'parents'. This book speaks to both parents and children. The parents are responsible for teaching their children to respect the elderly, so that they get blessings. It speaks to society as well as the entire nation. The nation deserves to know the how to be blessed, and the details are to be found in this book. These blessings are for now and all eternity. It is the will of God for children to obey the parents and elderly and there is a promise of blessings and long life. Get a copy of 'Iintsikelelo Zokuhlonipha Abazali' and you'll never regret it".

University Books. New York 1968. 1.6kg.. No inscriptions. VG condition in matching dustwrappers (both faded around spine).. Vol.1. yellow cloth boards. 423pp. Vol.2. red cloth boards. 433pp. illustrated 8vo. Facsimile edition of the 1920 Macmillan edition. Originally published in 1920 this comprehensively describes the life of the Ila people at the turn of the century in what is now Zambia & describes an Africa largely lost today.

Macmillan. London 1920.. Ex Rhodes University College Library stamp, lower spine shows evidence of label and some later ink numbering. Rough-cut edges, some pages unopened. Dib to front board Vol.2, else sound VG copies.. Green cloth boards.Vol.1. 423pp. Vol.2. 433pp. illustrated 8vo. set 2.3kg. This comprehensively describes the life of the Ila people at the turn of the century in what is now Zambia and describes an Africa largely lost today.

St Andrews 2011.. Gift inscription else a Fine copy in matching dustwrapper.. Printed boards. 275pp illustrated 4to. 1.2kg. A profusely illustrated history of the school.

Blandford Press. London 1955 1st edition.. Ownership inscription ffep. soft at head of spine, VG condition, excellent contents, very clean and sound, no dustwrapper.. Gilt on plum cloth boards. 311pp illustrated. 8vo. Well illustrated with 32 colour and 214 halftone photographic plates. This early edition is not in any way an orphan volume of the later 5-volume set, and appears to be a one-volume item.

No. 17407-200. 10 Percent Productions, Beverky Hills 1993.. VG condition. Folded coloured image greeting card 180mm x 125mm. Image of model to front is b/w with blue-coloured jeans, 'I'm Sorry' message inside.

Ashanti. Rivonia 1991 1st edition.. No inscriptions. a near Fine copy in matching dustwrapper.. Grey cloth boards. 431pp illustrated 8vo. Includes a comprehensive bibliography of all published works. 37 selected writings published in full.

Ashanti. Rivonia 1991 1st edition.. Owners signature ffep. a VG+ copy in matching dustwrapper.. Grey cloth boards. 431pp illustrated 8vo. Includes a comprehensive bibliography of all published works. 37 selected writings published in full.

University Of Cape Town Press. 2008. (isbn 9781860949883 for identical Imperial College Press edition).. An as-new unread copy.. 304pp softcover illustrated 8vo. 0.5kg. Allan MacLeod McCormack was a South African physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer assisted tomography (CAT) scanner.

Human & Rousseau. Cape Town 2009 stated 1st edition.. A Fine copy. Gift quality.. Printed wraps with fold-ins. 160pp illustrated 4to 0.7kg. Afrikaans text. Immergroen is 'n boeiende versameling van 25 essays oor die wondere en geheime van die plantwereld deur Dave Pepler, aanbieder van die gewilde omgewingsprogram Groen Op KykNet. Sy liefde vir die natuur strek terug tot sy kleintyd toe sy oupa, Boy le Roux, hom in 'n kruiwa saamgestoot het veld toe. In sy stories le hy verbande tussen die natuur, sy persoonlike verlede, asook die wereld van die kunste, geskiedenis en wetenskap. Van die essays het reeds in die leefstyltydskrif VISI verskyn, terwyl amper die helfter daarvan spesiaal vir die book geskryf is.

Viking. London 1988 1st edition.. Except neat ownership initials ffep Fine in dustwrapper (spine faded).. Terracotta cloth boards. 301pp illustrated colour and b/w photos, map. 8vo. The author and his new wife crossed the Sahara from West to East by camel (some 4500 miles). Starting in Mauretania this intrepid pair, who had been married for only 5 days, crossed through Mali, Niger, Chad, & the Sudan, to Egypt, pitting themselves against the desert and discovering the resources to survive. Their story paints a picture of an ancient world under attack by western culture.