Search Results: Titles starting with P from Quagga Books

Fleetway Press. With an introductory note by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. An anthology of British Empire by E.V. Lucas. Illustrations by Frank Brangwyn, Spenser Pryse and Macdonald Gill. Edited by Martin Hardie, with a preface by The Rt. Hon. J.H. Thomas. The scarce limited edition with the extra plate and page. Large fold-out plate by Brangwyn. Many other full page colour plates by Frank Brangwyn, Spencer Pryse and Macdonald Gill. Some scattered foxing, mostly to page edges. Japanese tissue repair to the spine and front gutter. Light wear to the paper covered boards. First edition Good to very good Hardcover

Howard B Timmins. Glamour, adventure and drama of a young man who began life as a blacksmith and ended up owning a circus. Long split to the front and rear end papers with some toning. Inscription to fep. A number of b&w photographs. 242 Pages. Contents clean. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair+. Dust jacket: Fair. Some edge-wear. Lacks lower corner of rear flap. Binding: Hardcover. Red cloth boards with some mild edge-wear. Fading to lower edge of rear board.

Artemis. Text in German. Brightly illustrated story of a bird and its world travels.

Boet Dommisse. From Widow Hurter's lodging house and Annex to the noble but sad role of a hospital during the Anglo Boer War to finally an army barracks through the two World Wars. Today the building has been restroed and serves once more as a senior naval residence. 119 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good+. Some light edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover.

Pall Mall Magazine, 1900. 570pp, illustrated with photographic plates and sketches. Top and bottom of spine worn, corners also worn.

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.

Perskor-Uitgewery, 1978.

1995. Events both large and small, seen through the eyes of several generations of its artists, put into an historical and artistic context many of the momentous changes the area has experienced since the settlers first came upon the breathtaking beauty of it's landscape."

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.

Chameleon Press. One of South Africa's most important pioneer artists. Based on the previously unpublished journal kept by the artist between 1919 and 1924 and on letters to a German friend. Richly illustrated journal is reproduced in this volume with a translation and commentary. Inscription to previous owners on title page. 112 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good+. Some edge-wear to header. Sunning to edges. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear with sunning to lower edge.

Archibald Constable and Co., 1897. A novelette. Front and rear end papers split at gutter with faded stamp and marks to the front fep. Edge-wear. Cloth boards stained and grubby. 1cm splits to the cloth at spine edges. Light toning to the page edges. Text clean.

Birkhauser Verlag AG. Numerous black and white and colour photographs. Binding and pages as new.. [caption id="attachment_22686" align="alignleft" width="244" caption="Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture"] [/caption]

Jacques Dusseau. Covering the time from the first Trek in the 1830's through to the Jameson Raid. Text in Dutch. Decorative cloth boards quite worn. Recased with new endpapers. A good clean copy.

Richard Clay & Sons Ltd. These negotiations terminated in the Peace concluded at Vereeniging on 31st May 1902. With 11 photos and facsimiles of original documents. Bookplate on fixed end paper. Some toning to prelims and a coupld of pages. 212 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Good+. No dust jacket: Hardcover. Cloth boards with some edge-wear to header and footer and corners. Bumping to top corners.

C Struik. The story of South African Mountaineering. From early travellers to the tough young climbers of today. Special attention to South African women who participate in this sport as well as the role of the Mountain Club of South Africa in rescue operations. Colour and b&w photographs. Some toning and foxing to feps. 176 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to good-. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with insect nibbling and discolouration marks. Edgewear to all extremities.

The history of the Moravian Church in South Africa 1717 - 1869. Their mission stations at the Cape from their beginning until the division of the work into two provinces. 335 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good-. Edge-wear with some chipping to header. Light grubby marks. Binding:Hardcover. Boards in good condition.

Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, 2011. Ren Sihong is a Chinese artist. He uses the metaphor of exercise to express ideology and politics, with figure of Mao performing various activities. 247pp, in black and white, Chinese and English.

Faber and Faber Ltd. A few of the pages have pencil underlining. Previous owner's name on front free end page. Some handling marks to page edges. Green cloth boards have edge-wear especially to the spine area with some sunning to the top edge of rear board. Lacking the top section of the rear cover of the dust jacket as well as a smaller area of the lower spine edge. Contents firmly bound.

Purnell & Sons. Vol 2 only. Beautifully illustrated in full colour. Includes notes on the cultivation and ecology are included with detailed geographical distribution maps. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Full leather binding. Mild edge-wear.

Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. Pamphlet on the famed white dolphin Pelorus Jack. Illustrated in monotone with a map. Bound in paper wrappers, with chips around the edges and tear to the front wrap. Text VG. Postcard VG and unused.