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EASTERN CAPE

#24424 Brownlee, W.T. (Ed. James Brownlee). REMINISCENCES OF ATRANSKEIAN. Green cloth boards. 156pp 8vo. No inscription. eps tanned. a VGcopy in G+ dustwrapper (rubbed, worn at edges, no chips, loss, or tears). Shuter &Shooter. Pietermaritzburg 1975 1st edition. isbn 0869853007

£25.00

Grandson of the Rev. John Brownlee (London Missionary Society, 1816),W.T. Brownlee led a long and active life in the administration of the Transkeiterritory from the late 19thC through to the early 1930s. A cfollection offirst–hand tales including his account of the annexation of Pondoland. Someof the stories were published in the East London Daily Dispatch, othersreconstructed from authors notes after originals sent to a London publisherwere listed missing.

#24421 Bryer, Lynne. & Hunt, Keith S. THE 1820 SETTLERS. Terracotta clothboards. 80pp. illustrated col.b/w photos, plates. 4to. No inscription. a VG++ copyin dustwrapper (spine faded, no loss, chips. or tears). attractive copy. Heritage Series:19th Century. Don Nelson. Cape Town 1984 1st edition. isbn 0909238871

£20.00

This extensively illustrated social history of the 1820 Settlers gives ageneral but reasonably detailed overview of the them. The 4000 immigrantsto the Eastern Cape changed the character of the area and of South Africa asa whole. Lynne Bryer is a descendant of John Ayliffe and has written otherbooks on the 1820 Settlers.

#24453 Burton, A.E. THE HIGHLANDS OF KAFFRARIA. A Review Of Out-standing Incidents In Kafirland And British Kaffraria Leading Up To The Rise Of KingWilliam’s Town, Keiskama Hoek And East London, With Special Reference To TheHistory And Situation Of Fort Stokes. Gilt title on quarter red on grey, imit leather,with gilt device front board. 67pp illustrated photos, maps. small 8vo. No inscription.4 square corners. Prelims lightly foxed else contents excellent, conservatively VG in G+dustwrapper (dusty, foxed, no chips, loss, or tears). Struik. Cape Town 1969 1st editionthus.

£15.00

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Extensive coverage of the various military posts and camps of the area,places of interest around KWT, etc. The original edition as self–publishedby Author in 1942 came in wraps.

#24455 Dickason, G.B. IRISH SETTLERS TO THE CAPE. History Of The Clan-william 1820 Settlers From Cork Harbour. One quarter ’leather’ over terracotta paper–covered boards with gilt device. 113pp illustrated 8vo. Ownership inscription ffep. epsspotted. Externally near Fine except corners lightly bumped, pencil notes to half-titlepage else contents excellent in G+ dustwrapper (spine & fold-in edges tanned, sello off-set to rear fold-in only. no loss or tears). A.A. Balkema. Cape Town 1973. isbn0869610368

£50.00

The 1820 Irish parties of Parker, Butler, Ingram, & Synnot were divertedfrom the Eastern Cape by acting governor Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin on ac-count of the number of settlers arriving vastly exceeding those expected andprovided for. Arrangements were made to settle the Irish parties in Clan-william in the Western Cape. This led to a crisis of confidence in the settlerleadership, contributing to the collapse of the Clanwilliam settlement andthe dispersion of the settlers. Some regrouped and moved to the intendeddestination of Albany. Preliminary chapters on the situation pertaining inIreland, England, & Europe prior to emigration and another of the emigra-tion scheme and assembly of the four parties. Brief outline biographies ofthe settlers, amended lists of settlers, and appendix on the author’s settlerforebear, Robert Dickason, and his children.

#24432 Dugmore, Rev. Henry Hare. (Eds. F.G. Van Der Riet & Rev. L.A.Hewson). THE REMINISCENCES OF AN ALBANY SETTLER. Together With HisRecollections Of The Kaffir War Of 1835. Gilt on red cloth boards. 92pp. photo frontis,map. 8vo. Owners inscription ffep. eps tanned. a VG copy with 4 square corners inheavily tanned dustwrapper (chipped at head of spine but no tears or loss). Grocott &Sherry. Grahamstown 1958.

£20.00

Gift inscription by editor (v.d. Riet) on half–title page. One of the mostinformative and readable accounts of early experiences of the founding of theAlbany Settlement in the Eastern Cape Province. The second part recordshis recollections of the 1835 (6th) Frontier War when he was a missionaryat Mount Coke and Wesleyville. Originally published in ’The South AfricanMethodist’, this is found only in this G&S edition of ’Reminiscences’.

#24442 Essex, Rabone & Co. THE RECORDS OF A PIONEER FAMILY. Bluecloth boards. 158pp illustrated 8vo. Edges & eps tanned. boards spotted. some foxinghere and there. a G+ copy in Good dustwrapper. Struik. Cape Town 1966.



£20.00

Transcribed and edited by Arthur Rabone from letters and diaries of boththe Essex & Rabone families. Alfred Essex, then proprietor of the GraaffReinet Herald, wrote inviting his father and sisters in England to join himto escape the depression there. Their ship, the barque ”Cuba”, was wrecked4 miles from Port Elizabeth. William Rabone’s diary of the voyage is herefollowed with the letters written by his wife Harriet (nee Essex) to her friendin London giving a vivid description of life in a small South African town atthat time. Spans the years 1851 to 1890.

#24408 Frye, John. (Ed). THE WAR OF THE AXE AND THE XOSA BIBLE.The Journal Of The Rev. J.W. Appleyard. Buff cloth boards. 157pp illustrated plates& maps. 8vo. No inscription. eps & edges spotted. overall VG condition in G–VGdustwrapper (a few closed tears along top, but overall very clean and attractive). Struik.Cape Town 1971. isbn 0869770012

£80.00

Limited edition. Copy No. 281 of 1000. Half of the text deals almostexclusively with the War Of The Axe alone, (the 7th Frontier War of 1846-1847). Stationed in the centre of the action near to Fort Peddie his journalrecords events as they happened. Also he recounts the War of Umlangeni(the 8th Frontier War of 1850-1852) centred around King Williams’s Townwhere he was then located. An educated man, his journal is the best civilianaccount with much detail and a good style. The balance of the book dealswith various aspects of his missionary work, recording his translation of theBible into a uniform Xhosa edition which was his major work, ”just whatsuits my cast of mind”.

#24417 Grogan, Tony. SETTLER COUNTRY. Terra cotta cloth boards. 110pp illus-trated colour and b/w drawings. oblong 4to. No inscriptions. a Fine copy in dustwrapper.Don Nelson. Cape Town 1980 1st edition. isbn 0909238561

£35.00

Travels through the history and geography of the Eastern Cape illustratedin pen and wash drawings by the Author. He covers from Knysna to theEastern Cape, showing people, artifacts, buildings and rural scenes.

#24423 Hockly, Harold Edward. THE STORY OF THE BRITISH SETTLERSOF 1820 IN SOUTH AFRICA. Second Enlarged And Revised Edition. Red cloth boards.284pp illustrated 8vo. No inscription. eps & edges tanned. G–VG condition in worndustwrapper Juta 1957 2nd edition.

£20.00

Chronicles the arrival of the Settlers of 1820 on the shores of Southern



Africa & their location on the Eastern Frontier of the old Cape Colony as abuffer against the increasing migration of the Xhosa westwards in the Colony.Includes list of settlers, Roll of Honour, extensive bibliography.

#24425 Kirby, Donald. et al. (Edited J.B. Bullock). PEDDIE – SETTLERS’OUTPOST Issued By The 1820 Settlers Commemoration Committee Of Grahamstown,To Mark The Fifth Annual Pilgrimage On 5th September, 1960. Green card wraps.73pp illustrated frontis, foldout maps, photos. 8vo. No inscriptions. wraps foxed and fftanned. shows effects of damp storage, thus sound but a reference copy only. Grocott &Sherry 1960.

£25.00

Contains the following articles., Percival Kirby. The History Of The Ped-die District Before 1848., E. Morse Jones. Fredericksburg Military Village.,E. Morse Jones. The Fish River Mouth Camp., J.M. Donald. The StartAnd Growth Of Fort Peddie., J.M. Donald. The Founders Of Peddie. (theDrivers, Stirks, Webbs, & Taintons), J.M. Donald. The Romantic Story OfMary Anne Moffat., J.M. Donald. The Murdered Missionary. An Episode InPeddie’s Early History., J.M. Donald. The Line Drift Military Post., JohnMitford Bowker. First Resident Agent At Fort Peddie., Mabel Linda White.”Tilly & The Bellows”, Eight Years At Junction Farm., The Banks FamilyCannon, A Link With The 1820 Settlers., Includes a Roll of Honour of thefallen in the 6th, 7th, & 8th Frontier wars, details of settlers, graves, etc.

#24451 Makin, A.E. THE 1820 SETTLERS OF SALEM. (Hezekiah Sephton’s Party).Red cloth boards. 142pp, illustrated photos, drawings, diagrams, fold–out map, small 4to.No inscription. eps tanned, else excellent contents. a VG copy with 4 square corners inGood dustwrapper (spine faded, scars to rear, spotted around spine, general wear but nomajor tears or loss). Juta, Cape Town 1971 1st edition. isbn 0702102083

£70.00

Deals with the arrival of the party at Algoa Bay (now Port Elizabeth)and the subsequent founding of the village of Salem. The tear-out form forordering Salem family histories & genealogies is still untouched, often thishas been removed.

#24412 Metrowich, F.C. FRONTIER FLAMES. Yellow cloth boards. 286pp illus-trated colour & b/w plates. 8vo. No inscriptions. edges lightly spotted else a VG+ copyin VG dustwrapper (light wear, no chips, tears, or loss). Books of Africa. Cape Town1968 1st edition.

£20.00

(Illus. Penny Miller). Stories of the frontiersmen and settlers of SouthernAfrica, especially in the Eastern Cape. Chapters on such colourful characters



as Coenraad Buys, Colonel John Graham, Emperor Norton 1, R. GordonCumming, and many lesser known but equally exciting characters.

#24452 Metrowich, F.C. FRONTIER FLAMES. Yellow cloth boards. 286pp illus-trated colour & b/w plates. 8vo. No inscription. eps spotted, some foxing or tanningin some places. else a VG copy in dustwrapper (has some large repaired tears acrosslower spine and rear, rear also heavily creased. a pity as a bright clean wrapper, noloss). A reasonable appearance despite listed faults. Books of Africa. Cape Town 19681st edition.

£10.00

(Illus. Penny Miller). Stories of the frontiersmen and settlers of SouthernAfrica, especially in the Eastern Cape. Chapters on such colourful charactersas Coenraad Buys, Colonel John Graham, Emperor Norton 1, R. GordonCumming, and many lesser known but equally exciting characters.

#24426 Mitford–Barberton, I. COMDT. HOLDEN BOWKER. An 1820 SettlerBook Including Unpublished Records Of The Frontier Wars. Yellow cloth boards. 274ppillustrated b/w 8vo. No inscription. eps else contents unmarked. VG condition in Gooddustwrapper (tanned, particularly to the spine, insect depradations also to spine andadjacent areas). Human & Rousseau. Cape Town 1970/1971.

£20.00

Includes extracts from the Journal of Bertram Egerton Bowker, coverageof the 6th & 8th Frontier Wars with Holden Bowker’s war journal of theformer, extracts from the journal of Mary Elizabeth Bowker, the Tharfieldburied treasure, and more.

#24409 Mitford–Barberton, I. & White, Violet. SOME FRONTIER FAMILIES.Biographical Sketches of 100 Eastern Province Families Before 1840. Orange cloth boards,303pp, 8vo, illustrated with family coats of arms. No inscription. edges & eps foxed.VG condition in Good dustwrapper (heavily foxed / tanned but no chips, tears, or loss).Human & Rousseau, Cape Town 1968 1st edition.

£65.00

No 76 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. For each of the families 2 or 3pages provide historical and genealogical information with coat of arms.

#24428 Pringle, Thomas. (Ed. A.M. Lewin Robinson). NARRATIVE OF ARESIDENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA. With Index To ... Gilt on maroon imit. leatherboards. 352pp illustrated b/w plates & with foldout map at rear. 8vo. ’Index To ...”18pp in pretty printed card wraps. Edges spotted, externally very attractive with 4 squarecorners. eps tanned. foldout map excellent. overall VG+, no dustwrapper. AfricanaCollectanea Series Volume XX. C. Struik. Cape Town 1966. unstated but likely areprint of the 1840 Moxon edition.



£60.00

Copy No.720 of 750. An 1820 Settler, Pringle left the Eastern Cape forCape Town, finally returning to England as the secretary of the Anti–SlaverySociety. He is regarded as the father of South African poetry. Includes JosiahConder’s biographical sketch. The ’Index To ...’ was printed seperately andis rarely found with the volume.

#24443 Redgrave, J. PORT ELIZABETH IN BYGONE DAYS. With Illustrations,Maps And Plans. Grey cloth boards. 547pp illustrated b/w plates, foldout maps. indexed.8vo. Owners signature ffep. boards some minor marking, eps tanned else text excellent.overall G–VG condition. Rustica Press. Wynberg 1947.

£40.00

One of few in-depth histories available on this historic city. Contains aninteresting chapter on the Kimberley diamond rush - as a result of Port Eliz-abeth being a main port of entry to the interior at that time - the resultingtrade reviving the flagging fortunes of the whole Cape Colony, and Port Eliz-abeth in particular. Includes newspaper clipping concerning the inadvertantfiring of two shells from a British warship berthed in the harbour that justmissed the Campanile.

#24461 Rivett–Carnac, Dorothy. THUS CAME THE ENGLISH. White clothboards. 147pp illustrated large 8vo. No inscription. white boards heavily foxed, epstanned, else contents unmarked. G- in Good dustwrapper (spine tanned, worn aroundhead & tail of spine, no major loss or tears). Howard Timmins. Cape Town 1963.

£10.00

Details the background of the 1820 Settlers and their early history in theEastern Cape. The book is restricted mainly to the Albany District beingthat area between the Fish and Bushman’s Rivers, from Port St. Francis(now Port Alfred) inland past Salem and Bathurst to Grahamstown andsurrounding areas. Distinctively illustrated by Ernest Ullman.

#24414 Thompson, Michael Charles. TRADERS AND TRADING STATIONSOf The Central And Southern Transkei. Printed glossy boards. 346pp illustrated 8vo.Bookplate ffep else a Fine copy. Brevitas 2009. isbn 9781874976516

£25.00

A human map of the Transkei trading stations. Author travelled the areaextensively in the years after WW2 and before the enforcement of apartheidpolicies. Added to this, detailed research has built up mini–biographies ofseveral hundred trading stations. With photographs and maps this also pro-vides a detailed guide to the off-the-beaten-track Transkei.



#24440 Wilkinson, Herbert. QUEEN’S COLLEGE. (Queenstown, C.P). Oatmealcloth boards. 172pp 8vo. Boards very unattractive, stained, insect depredations, spinedarkened. a sound reading copy only. Daily Representative. Queenstown 1949.

£15.00

Foundation Subscriber’s Copy. Signed by author. Owners signature al-though it cannot be matched to the list of subscribers.

ANTHROPOLOGY (including African religion, myth & legend)

#24300 Bryant, A.T. THE ZULU PEOPLE. As They Were Before The White ManCame. Gilt on pale cloth boards. 769pp 8vo. Owners signature ffep. ff tanned as usual.spine fading with dib & other wear at bottom – some canvas showing. sound clean copy,overall Good condition. Shuter & Shooter. Pietermaritzburg 1949 1st edition.

£35.00

Originally completed in 1935, this represents the accumulation of over 50years of contact with the Zulu people by the Author - who is well known forhis 1903 Zulu-English dictionary. Examines the origin of the Zulus and manymatters including dress, agriculture & animal husbandry, arts & crafts, thefamily & clan, the state & the king, courting, marriage, mysteries & myths,sports & pastimes.

#24388 Crehan, Kate. THE FRACTURED COMMUNITY. Landscapes Of PowerAnd Gender In Rural Zambia. 238pp paperback 8vo. Owners signature ffep. G+ condi-tion. University of California Press (1997). isbn 9780520206601

£15.00

Traces the way in which local village realities are linked to wider economic,political, and imaginative structures of power. Examining two small ruralcommunities in terms of gender, politics, economics, kinship, state and localrelations, & witchcraft, she uncovers the power relations defining these smallcommunities. She contributes her argument for the use of Antonio Gramsci’snotion of hegemony to analyse ordinary life. This study of a marginalised ru-ral society throws light on the concrete realities of capitalism in sub–SaharanAfrica.

#24382 Ebr.–Vally, Rehana. KALA PANI: CASTE AND COLOUR IN SOUTHAFRICA. 214pp sofcover 8vo. Owners inscription ffep. VG+ condition. Kwela / SouthAfrican History Online 2001. isbn 9780795701351

£15.00



The first wave of Indian immigrants arrived in South Africa as indenturedlabourers, followed by a second wave known as Passenger Indians - individualswho had paid their own fare. Being the last wave of immigrants to enter aBritish colony, the Indians saw themselves, and were perceived by others,as a homogenous group originating from India. The apartheid state as wellas anti-apartheid organisations saw advantages in this. Author analyses thisconstruct and shows how Indian identity is being transformed to meet thechallenges of the new democratic South Africa.

#24162 Geschiere, Peter. ON WITCH–DOCTORS AND SPIN-DOCTORS Glob-alization And The Construction Of Communal Identities. Working Paper No.4. 28ppstapled. green wraps. VG condition. Wotro 1998.

£6.00

#24385 Grinker, Roy Richard. & Steiner, Christopher B. (Eds). PERSPEC-TIVES ON AFRICA. A Reader In Culture, History, & Representation. 736pp paperback8vo. Owners signature ffep. wraps creased front and rear, contents unmarked, overallstill a VG copy, Blackwell 1997. isbn 9781557866868

£20.00

44 key works in African studies in anthropology, history, and other disci-plines, reveal a multiplicity of voices showing the interpretation of ideas andconcepts across disciplines, regions, and historical periods.

#24383 Krige, Eileen Jensen. & Comaroff, John L. (Eds). ESSAYS ONAFRICAN MARRIAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA. Red cloth boards. 205pp 8vo. Own-ers signature ffep else a VG copy in worn dustwrapper (rubbed, spine fading, generalwear but no loss or tears). Juta 1981. isbn 070211202X

£25.00

Eileen Krige. A Comparative Analysis Of Marriage & Social StructureAmong The Southern Bantu. Jon & Jean Comaroff. The Management OfMarriage In A Tswana Chiefdom. David Webster. The Politics Of Instabil-ity: Divorce And Ephemeral Alliance Among The Chopi. Adam Kuper. TiedBy Bridewealth: The Tsonga Case. Harriet Ngubani. Marriage, Affinity AndThe Ancestral Realm: Zulu Marriage In Female Perspective. Basil Sansom.Cash Down For Brides. Colin Murray. The Symobolism And Politics OfBohali: Household Recruitment And Marriage By Installment In Lesotho.Monica Wilson. Xhosa Marriage In Historical Perspective. Eileen Krige.Lovedu Marriage And Social Change. Eleanor Preston–Whyte. Women Mi-grants And Marriage.



#24374 Kuper, Hilda. INDIAN PEOPLE IN NATAL. Green cloth boards. 305ppillustrated 8vo. Owners signature ffep. some marks to boards, contents excellent, G–VGcondition, no dustwrapper. Greenwood Publishers 1974. isbn 0837160960

£22.00

Part 1 deals with the historical background of South African Indians,Part 2 discusses kinship among the Durban Hindu, Part 3 deals with religion,ceremonies and trance, and health. Various detailed tables / appendices ofinterest detailing names and originating district, names of ships used fortransport to South Africa, occupation, etc.

#24401 Mayer, Philip. (Contrib. Iona Mayer). TOWNSMEN OR TRIBESMAN.Conservatism And The Process Of Urbanisation In A South African City. Cerise clothboards. 306pp illustrated 8vo. Ownership stamp ffep. eps tanned & with sello offset,hence VG condition in VG dustwrapper (tanned, sello offset internally, no chips, loss,or tears). Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University / Oxford Uni-versity Press 1961 1st edition.

£28.00

2nd volume in the ’Xhosa In Town’ trilogy, Studies Of The Bantu–Speaking Population Of East London, Cape Province. (Philip Mayer, Ed).Contains an intensive study of the labour migrant element in the Africantownships of East London. (the other volumes were Pauw, ’The SecondGeneration’, and Reader, ’The Black Man’s Portion’).

#24375 Mayer, Philip. (Ed). BLACK VILLAGERS IN AN INDUSTRIAL SO-CIETY. Anthropological Perspectives On Labour Migration In South Africa. Printedcloth boards, 369pp 8vo. Owners signature ffep. overall G–VG condition in worn lesserdustwrapper (worn along edges, creased, no major loss or tears. Oxford University Press1980. isbn 0195701917

£30.00

The focus of this collection of papers is upon the impact upon rural societyof the South African industrial economy. Based upon fieldwork carried outfrom 1976 to 1979, this book was an outcome of the Migrant Labour Projectundertaken at Rhodes University and deals with the history of Transkei ru-ral ideologies of resistance, the history of migrant labour among the Pondo,the distribution of resources in villages in Lesotho, rituals of migrant labourin the western Transkei, changing family structures in the Ciskei, youth or-ganisations in the eastern Transkei, and the social relations of workers in agold-miners hostel.

#24376 Reader, D.H. (Ed Philip Mayer). THE BLACK MAN’S PORTION.History, Demography, And Living Conditions In The Native Locations Of East London,Cape Province. Red cloth boards. 180pp illustrated 8vo. Ownership stamp and sello



offset to eps. contents and boards VG+ in VG dustwrapper (tanned, shows sello offsetinternally and to fold–ins, but no chips, loss, or tears). an attractive looking copy.Oxford University Press 1961.

£20.00

1st volume of the trilogy ’Xhosa In Town’, Studies Of The Bantu-SpeakingPopulation Of East London, Cape Province. (Philip Meyer, Ed). (the othervolumes were Pauw, ’The Second Generation’, and Mayer, ’Townsmen OrTribesmen’).

#24462 Richards, Audrey I. LAND, LABOUR AND DIET IN NORTHERN RHODE-SIA. An Economic Study Of The Bemba Tribe. Blue cloth boards. 423pp illustratedplates, maps. 8vo. Ownership inscription ffep. overall a nice clean VG copy. no dust-wrapper. International African Institute / Oxford University Press 1951 2nd imp. errataslip

£30.00

Looks at the production (land, soil, cultivation, fishing & hunting) anduse (diet, storage, cooking and preparation of meals) of various food sourcesamong these people. Also considers domestic economics and other relatedissues in typical village life).

#24373 Stayt, Hugh A. (Intro. A.W. Hoernle). THE BAVENDA. Navy clothboards. 392pp illustrated 8vo. foldout map at rear. Neat owners signature ffep. lightwear to head and tail of spine. a G–VG copy. Map outer edge worn as not fully folded inbut no tears. no dustwrapper. clean attractive copy. International Institute Of AfricanLanguages & Cultures / Oxford University Press 1931 1st edition.

£120.00

Scarce first edition of this early work. The BaVenda then occupied ap-proximately one third of the inhabited territory of the Zoutpansberg districtin the Northern Transvaal. Their territory was bounded by the Limpopo,Sand, & Levuhu rivers. An extensive analysis of the people, their agriculture,food, industries, as well as their life stages, property, succession, inheritance,social groupings, concepts such as weather, astronomy, time and seasons,numbers, religion, medicine, magic rain-making & fertility, music, dancing,song, and folklore.

#24377 Walker, Cherryl. WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA.309pp softcover. ff tanned and foxing to inside of wraps. a Good sound clean copy.David Phillip 1991 2nd edition. isbn 9780864861702

£10.00

With a new Preface to update this classic work. Drawing on interviewswith women activists and archival sources, author provides a detailed account



of women’s involvement in the political struggles of 20thC South Africa. Bothan analysis of the interaction of class, race, and gender, and a lively politicalhistory. The original 1982 edition was banned in South Africa.

BIOGRAPHY (including genealogy, family & company histories)

#24394 Brokensha, David. BROKIE’S WAY, AN ANTHROPOLOGIST’S STORY.Love And Work In Three Continents. 566pp illustrated softcover 8vo. Owners signatureffep. spine curved, else a VG copy. Amani Press (2007). isbn 9780620390644

£30.00

Includes email between author & book reviewer. Author and his partnerBernard Riley lived and worked together in Africa, the USA, & the UK, fornearly 50 years. His memoir follows his career, as a soldier and prisoner ofwar in WW2, a university student, a colonial administrator, a founder of anNGO, a professor of anthropology, and a South African exile who returnedhome in 1999. Not only following his life and love it demonstrates howanthropological field research can generate benefits for both researcher andresearchee.

#24413 Cochlovius, Karen. DESERT VARNISH. 291pp softcover. A Fine unreadcopy. Kwela 2003. isbn 9780795701696

£10.00

Itinerant geologist roams far and wide, Namibia, Namaqualand, Lesotho,and communicates her love for the ground beneath our feet.

#24399 Jabavu, Noni. DRAWN IN COLOUR. African Contrasts. Ochre clothboards. 208pp 8vo. Eps & edges tanned. G–VG condition in Good dustwrapper (spinefaded, price-clipped, chipped and worn at head & tail of spine). Murray. London 1960reprint.

£10.00

Includes obituary of author from Daily Dispatch June 20 2008. A pictureof life both in South Africa and Kenya, written by a black South African.Daughter of a respected South African academic, she returns to South Africafor the funeral of her brother. She contrasts her South African family andXhosa traditions with those of East Africa through the experiences of hersister then married and living in Uganda. Educated in England, her Westernpoint of view is enhanced by her clear literary style.

#24419 Meintjes, Johannes. DE LA REY – LION OF THE WEST. A Biography.Buff cloth boards. 432pp illustrated. photos. numerous relevant newspaper clippings



included (family obituaries, article by Orpen). No inscriptions. eps show sello offset. aVG+ copy in VG dustwrapper (sello offset on fold-ins, some minor creasing). overall avery attractive copy. Hugh Keartland. Johannesburg 1966.

£70.00

The only biography of Koos De La Rey, the famed Boer General.

#24457 Meintjes, Johannes. GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA. A Biography. Oatmealcloth boards. 332pp. illustrated plates, maps. 8vo. No inscription. 4 square cornersedges & eps tanned else contents excellent. boards immaculate, VG+ condition in VG+dustwrapper (minor wear at head & tail of spine, clipped front and rear fold–ins, spinefading, no chips, loss, or tears, some remains of magic-tape used to secure protective wrapon fold-ins and also on rear pastedown, lamination film now stretched over front gutter).A well-above average copy. Cassell. London 1970 1st edition. isbn 0304935018

£60.00

A biography of one of South Africa’s most able generals in the Boer War.As premier of the Transvaal and later of the Union of South Africa he wasa controversial character and made many enemies through his support forBritain in 1914 which resulted in the Maritz, or Afrikaner, rebellion.

#24420 Meintjes, Johannes. THE COMMANDANT GENERAL. The Life AndTimes Of Petrus Jacobus Joubert Of The South African Republic 1831–1900. Blackcloth boards. 220pp illustrated plates. 8vo. Sello offset to eps. prelims foxed. remainsa VG copy in very attractive dustwrapper (no chips, tears, or loss). Tafelberg. CapeTown 1971 1st edition. isbn 0624000036

£20.00

Still the definitive biography of a Boer War hero.

#24456 Rosenthal, Eric. GENERAL DE WET. A Biography. Red cloth boards.295pp illustrated 8vo. No inscription. 4 square corners. taped to fep is a picture of themonument of de Wet on his horse (Coert Steynberg, Bloemfontein). edges & eps tannedelse contents excellent. VG condition in VG–Fine dustwrapper (very modest fading tolower spine, no chips, loss, or tears, some remains of tape used to secure protective wrapon fold-ins, and also on pastedowns). Externally this is a superb copy, Simondium.Cape Town 1968 2nd edition.

£50.00

This edition contains additional material and illustrations not in theDassie and Unie-Volkspers editions of the same title. The only English biog-raphy of this famous Boer General.

#24467 Thomas, Kevin. SHADOWS IN AN AFRICAN TWILIGHT. Game Ranger,Soldier, Hunter. 705pp illustrated softcover 8vo. Mint unread copy. Uthekwane 2008.



isbn 9780620397278

£30.00

Stories about a life spread across nearly 4 decades in Africa, culminatingin Iraq. Game ranger, special force soldier, professional hunter, personalsecurity officer, each a story on its own. Tells of courageous game rangersdedicated to preserving wildlife also fighting against terrorist forces. Authoralso relates his experiences in the Selous Scouts during the Rhodesian bushwar.

FICTION AND CREATIVE WRITINGS

#24372 Berold, Robert, Robert. (Ed). SEVEN VARIATIONS ON A POEMBY DU FU. Printed wraps 50pp stapled binding. Mint condition ex–publisher. Confu-cius Institute And School Of Languages, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, & AerialPublishing 2010. isbn 9780981405247

£6.00

The poem by Du Fu translated from the Chinese into Xhosa (Kodla Umh-lala Phantsi), Afrikaans (Vir Wei Ba, ’N Ou Vriend, Nou Afgetree), English(Reunion), French (Offert Par Du Fu A Wei Ba, Fonctionnaire Retraite),German (An Wei Ba, Den Einsiedler), & Latin (Du Fu Ad Wei Ba, VirumDoctum). Du Fu (712-770) wrote the poem to his friend Wei Pa. Elsewheretranslated as ’To Wei Pa. A Retired Scholar’ (Kenneth Rexroth), and ’ForThe Recluse Wei Pa’ (David Hinton), and with an additional translation hereby Robert Berold ’To Wei Ba, In Retirement’.

#24371 Beyers, Marike. ON ANOTHER PAGE. Printed wraps 53pp paperback.Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing. Grahamstown 2011. isbn 9780981405254

£6.00

Verse. ”in the end it was easy, she slipped from the covers, one-leggedbalance, over the windowsill, past the swinging tree, through the gate, upthe hill, she could see, the boat’s red sail”. FREE POSTAGE within SouthAfrica.

#24370 Coetzee, Paulette. AS EACH NEW YEAR OPENS. Printed wraps 38ppstapled binding. Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing. Grahamstown 2006.isbn 0620355972

£5.00



Verse. ”It’s raining hard in Colchester, now the salt works, all blurredtoday now it’s Blue Water Bay then the river then factories all shrouded insmokey mist. Only the sea on the left is bright green”. FREE POSTAGEwithin South Africa.

#24369 Everitt, Mariss. ON GARDENING. Printed wraps 29pp stapled binding.Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing. Grahamstown 2008. isbn 9780981405216

£5.00

Verse. ”They had sprung gaily from the compost, these tenacious opskietplants. Their green fruit, so close to the ground, would soon blacken and rot.Lifting the trailing stems, I smelt their fecundity. It filled my mouth with thetaste of summer salads. The hairy succulent stems now staked, the heavygreen fruit lifted a little closer to the ripening sun, I stood, admiring thissmall field of rampant plants, and thought ”Today I staked the tomatoes”.FREE POSTAGE within South Africa.

#24368 Krueger, Anton. EVERYDAY ANOMALIES. Printed wraps. 57pp pa-perback. Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing. Grahamstown 2011. isbn9780981405261

£6.00

Verse. ”like scott of the antarctic, i kept tramping through your texts,and i tried to fight the snow - but then the horizon disappeared... and nowboth my map and my left leg have gone”. FREE POSTAGE within SouthAfrica.

#24367 Leff, Carol. FLASHES. Printed wraps 37pp stapled binding. Mint conditionex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2009. isbn 9780981405223

£5.00

Verse. ”the wind has picked up, it’s come rattling the side door, spikingmy nerves, emphasizing my empty spaces”. FREE POSTAGE within SouthAfrica.

#24366 Naude, Michelle. FRACTURES. Printed wraps. 44pp paperback. Mintcondition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2013. isbn 9780981405285

£6.00

Short stories. ”One more metre. About three steps at the pace he isgoing. He presses agonizingly along, eyes set intently on the exact spotwhere his feet should land. Shoelaces dirty-white, the threads in his jeansslim as veins. Arms stretched wide, long brave wings against the terrifyingblue. His heart is drumming out the song of his soul, the first sound he everheard the world make”. FREE POSTAGE within South Africa.



#24365 Nolutshungu, Simphiwe. NOLUTSHUNGU AVENUE. Printed wraps.39pp paperback. Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2013. isbn 9780981405278

£6.00

Verse. ”On this Avenue, The moon and sun are single, Each day harboursits night, The night makes love to the day, And the children of the night”.FREE POSTAGE within South Africa.

#24364 Ntuli, Sihle. STRANGER. Printed wraps 55pp paperback. Mint conditionex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2015. isbn 9780981405292

£6.00

Verse, ”to throw no shade, drying beneath the sun, to soul searching. tocalmness of the blues, to the gold in the gospel, to favourite colours”. FREEPOSTAGE within South Africa.

#24363 Saki, Dudu. DO MEN WEAR CLOTHES. Printed wraps 39pp stapled bind-ing. Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2008. isbn 9780981405209

£5.00

Verse, ”the words are sobbing, on a blank page, their smile is reflected, bythe light bulb, accentuated by the questions, that ebb their way to my ears,they nudge me in my inkstained hangover, not to forget to do a post-mortem,on the poem that died, of writer’s block”. FREE POSTAGE within SouthAfrica.

#24362 Stanford, Rosamund. THE PEELING OF SKIES. Printed wraps 41pp sta-pled binding. Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2004. isbn 0620336641

£5.00

Verse, ”we are exactly, in places where umtshingitshaan, is suddenlystirring, swirling away earth’s petticoat”. FREE POSTAGE within SouthAfrica.

#24361 Warren, Crystal. BODIES OF GLASS. Printed wraps 34pp stapled binding.Mint condition ex–publisher. Aerial Publishing 2004. isbn 0620336633

£5.00

Verse, ”the crystal calligrapher, is frozen in time, pen ever poised, paint-ing with light”. FREE POSTAGE within South Africa.



LESOTHO / BASUTOLAND

#24422 Tylden, G. THE RISE OF THE BASUTO. Duck–egg blue cloth boards. 270ppillustrated 8vo. No inscription. eps tanned, VG condition in G+ dustwrapper (price-clipped, worn at head of spine, some chips, no major loss or tears). Juta 1950.

£25.00

The history of Basutoland (now Lesotho) and the Basuto from 1824.

#24406 Whittle, Luky. (Ill. Sister Catherine). FATHER JOSEPH GERARD.Apostle Of Lesotho. 36pp stapled booklet. No inscription. wraps a little worn, G+condition. 1988.

£10.00

Written in honour of the proposed visit of his Holiness, Pope John PaulII, to Lesotho, September 1988, in order to beatify Father Gerard, who wasdeclared Venerable by Pope Pius XII in 1952 at Rome.

MISCELLANEOUS

#24386 Nakamura, Kyoko. ADORNMENTS OF THE SAMBURU. A Comprehen-sive List. Printed wraps. 160pp illustrated small 4to. A Fine copy. The Centre ForAfrican Area Studies. Kyoto University 2005. isbn 4879740523

£60.00

The Samburu are located in northern Kenya. This scarce reference workis illustrated in colour. It provides an overview of the society and thendetails of adornments for children, moran (the youth), elders, women, ritualoccasions, and also body deformation (ear piercing, skin markings such astattoos and burn marks, tooth extraction. This book represents the firstsystematic collation of Samburu adornments with a meticulous outline oftheir contextual significance.

#24418 Schach, Leonard. THE FLAG IS FLYING. A Very Personal History Of The-atre In The Old South Africa. Black cloth boards 191pp illustrated 4to. No inscriptions.a Fine copy in VG++ dustwrapper. Human & Rousseau 1996. isbn 9780798135511

£20.00

Author participated in every stage of the development of a theatre inSouth Africa between 1925 & 1994, and directed more than 300 productions



in South Africa, Israel, America, England, Belgium, and Italy. Profuselyillustrated.Human & Rousseau. Cape Town 1996.

#24465 Van Warmelo, N.J. VENDA DICTIONARY. Tshivenda–English. Gilt titleon red vynide boards. 96pp + 490pp 8vo. No inscriptions. VG-Fine condition. J.L. VanSchaik 1989 1st edition. isbn 0627016251

£30.00

Includes grammar, orthography, phonology, etc. as well as being the mostextensive Venda dictionary available. This is an augmented revision of theoriginal 1937 edition from the Government Printer, Pretoria.

#24463 Sundkler, Bengt G.M. BANTU PROPHETS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Bluecloth boards. 344pp illustrated 8vo. Ownership inscriptions ffep. else VG condition. nodustwrapper. errata slip Lutterworth Library Vol. XXXII. Missionary Research SeriesNo.14. Lutterworth Press. London 1948 1st edition.

£20.00

Includes various press clippings of related interest. A missionary study ofthe African separatist churches in South Africa. Investigates the movementsamongst the Zulu people as well as the Ethiopian and Zionist movements.Extensive list of separatist churches

POLITICAL & SOCIAL HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS.

#24393 Bates, Robert H. ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RURALAFRICA. African Studies Series 38. Chocolate cloth boards. 178pp 8vo. Ownershiplabel ffep. VG condition in dustwrapper (rubbed, faded to spine, no major loss, chips, ortears). contents unmarked. Cambridge University Press 1983. isbn 052124563X

£25.00

Recognising the central importance of rural Africa this addresses the clas-sic questions in African studies. What were the sources of order in pre–colonial societies without states? What were the origins of traditional statesin Africa? In the colonial period what caused the divergent patterns of agri-cultural development? What were the issues driving the peasant rebellionsthat ended colonial rule? Since independence, what has been the fate ofthe African peasantry? What has been the content of agricultural policiesadopted by post-colonial governments in Africa, and how can these policiesbe accounted for?



ZIMBABWE & ZAMBIA (The Rhodesias, Nyasaland, theFederation)

#24404 Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition. THEATRE ROYAL.HALLE ORCHESTRA. Gala Performance. Conducted By Sir John Barbirolli. July 4th1953. with two other items. 3 items. 23pp, 43pp, 24pp, in printed card wraps. stapled.All 3 items have the date circled on the front wrap. and are in VG condition. July 4th,22nd June – 3rd July, 6th July, 1953.

£25.00

The second item is the programme for the Halle Orchestra of the preced-ing week for 22nd June to 3rd July 1953, the third item is the programme forthe ’Pageant of Rhodesia’ July 6th 1953. The Gala event was attended byHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and Her Royal Highness,Princess Margaret.

#24360 Daneel, M.L. ZIONISM AND FAITH–HEALING IN RHODESIA. AspectsOf African Independent Churches. 64pp illustrated softcover. Ownership inscription in-side front wrap else G+ condition. Communications 2. Afrika-Studiecentrum / Mouton1970.

£15.00

Examines the major attraction of the African Zionist movement for theAfrican population, that of faith-healing. Based upon the testimonies ofZionists themselves as well as the author’s observations of faithhealing tech-niques in the colonies of prophetic healers and on an analysis of the contentsof sermons obtained during a two and a half year research period during1965-1967 in the central and south-eastern parts of the country.

#24437 Darter, Adrian. ”One Of Them”. (Foreword by Robert Carey).PIONEERS OF MASHONALAND. (Men Who Made Rhodesia). Maroon boards. 213ppillustrated b/w plates, map. 8vo. Edges & eps spotted else a VG–Fine copy in VG+dustwrapper (tanned inside, minor rubbing to fold near top front of spine). The cleanestcopy that we have seen in many years. Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1977. RhodesianaReprint Library Silver Series. Vol.17. Facsimile of the 1914 Simpkin Marshall editionwith new illustrations, foreword, nominal roll, route map; and list of corrections to theoriginal edition. isbn 0869201611

£75.00

Includes 26 photographs by Ellerton Fry. Author joined the Pioneers in1890 and was one of the few to write an account of his personal experiences.In every line the thrill of adventure and the joy of companionship shine



through in his youthful account. Darter wrote this however to persuade theBritish that the British South Africa Company’s Charter should be broughtto an end as he believed that the Company had forfeited its rights when itused force to invade Matableland in 1893.

#24460 Stent, Vere. A PERSONAL RECORD OF SOME INCIDENTS IN THELIFE OF CECIL RHODES. With An Introduction By Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. Terracottacloth boards. 98pp illustrated 12mo. Edges & eps tanned, externally VG+ in G–VGdustwrapper (lightly tanned, creased during production, no chips. tears, or loss). Booksof Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1970. Reprint of the 1925Maskew Miller edition.

£10.00

Vere Stent, as newspaper correspondent, writes of a nuber of time thathe met with Rhodes. This includes journeying with Cecil John Rhodes tothe 1896 Great Indaba in the Matopos. Also covered is Rhodes funeral andburial. Printed originally in the Pretoria News, subsequently reprinted forprivate circulation.

#24438 Sykes, Frank W. WITH PLUMER IN MATABELELAND. An Account OfThe Operations Of The Matabeleland Relief Force During The Rebellion Of 1896. Blackdecoration and gilt title on green cloth boards. xviii + 296pp. illustrated b/w plates andtwo foldout maps. No inscription. top edge spotted, eps tanned, hence VG+ conditiononly in VG dustwrapper (light wear to folds, no loss, or tears). Rhodesiana ReprintLibrary (Gold Series) Volume Twenty–One (21). Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1972.Reprint of the 1897 Constable edition.

£40.00

Concerned particularly with the Matabeleland Relief Force under thecommand of Colonel Plumer and the series of peace indabas initiated byRhodes. A clear record of the major engagements from the Trooper’s pointof view, the author serving in the Medical Corps.

#24444 Wills, W.A. & Collingridge, L.T. THE DOWNFALL OF LOBENGULA.The Cause, History, And Effect Of The Matabeli War. Red, black, & cream decorationon grey cloth boards. xii + 347pp. illustrated b/w plates, foldout plans, errata slip. Noinscription. minor tanning in places. a VG+ copy in G+ dustwrapper (worn, rubbed,no chips, loss, or tears). Rhodesiana Reprint Library (Gold Series) Volume Seventeen(17). Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1972. Reprint of the 1894 African Review, Argusedition.

£20.00

Generally regarded as the British South Africa Company’s official accountof the Matabele War of 1893 it was published only nine months after the lossof the Shangani Patrol. Covers the period from the arrival of Mzilikazi tothe death of his successor, Lobengula. It traces the origins of the Chartered



Company and the Occupation by the Pioneer Column in 1890. Memorialbiographical chapter listing those who lost their lives in battle, and Roll Callbiographical chapter of others involved.

SOCIOLOGY

#24379 Campbell, Catherine. TOWNSHIP FAMILIES AND YOUTH IDENTITY.Cooperative Research Programme On Marriage And Family Life Report HG/MF–11.Printed white wraps. 169pp small 4to. VG+ condition. Human Sciences ResearchCouncil (HSRC) 1993. isbn 0796915547

£15.00

Detailed open-ended interviews were conducted with 40 township peopleaged 17 to 23 years. The youth queried their parent’s competence to act associal guides in modern township life. In the light of the influence of compet-ing social groupings they often questioned family guidelines of ’recipes’ forliving. ”The older generation have been prepared to accept everything thehardest way, struggle for everything they have got. The younger generationdo not wait for hard times, they are always active”.

#24378 Ziehl, Susan C. (Ed. Ina Snyman). HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE ANDFAMILY IDEOLOGY – A STUDY OF WHITES IN GRAHAMSTOWN. CooperativeResearch Programme On Marriage And Family Life Report HG/MF-10. Printed whitewraps. 86pp small 4to. Crease to rear wrap, contents as new, hence VG condition.Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) 1993. isbn 0796915458

£10.00

The main aim of this study is to illustrate family diversity both in termsof the structure of households and family values. Furthermore, the dynamicaspect of family life is expressed by means of symbolic representations ofindividuals’ life cycles. The study consists of a survey and also case studies.

VAN RIEBEECK SOCIETY SERIES

#24405 Isaacs, Nathaniel. (Ed. Louis Herrman). TRAVELS AND ADVEN-TURES IN EASTERN AFRICA. With Footnotes And A Biographical Sketch. Descrip-tive Of The Zoolas, Their Manners, Customs, Etc. Etc. With ’A Sketch Of Natal’. Vol-umes 2. Original green–grey cloth boards. 335pp. 8vo. Ownership inscription and stamp



to front pastedown. boards handled, G-VG condition. no dustwrapper. Van Riebeeck So-ciety (VRS). First Series Volumes 16 Cape Town 1937. From the original 1837 EdwardChurton edition.

£35.00

One of the earliest European accounts of Natal and the Zulu kingdom.The second volume gives an account of the early white settlement there withmaterial on Zulu culture.

WEST AFRICA

#24387 Farnham. Dana A. PLOWS, PROSPERITY, AND COOPERATION ATAGBASSA. The Change From Hoes To Plows On A Government–Sponsored Land Set-tlement Project In Northern Togo. Black cloth boards. 259pp 8vo. Top corners bumpedhence VG++ condition in VG dustwrapper (minor wear and creasing, no chips, loss,or tears). Susquehanna University Press / Associated University Presses (1997) isbn9780945636984

£40.00

Examines the responses of Kabiye & Lamba farmers to animal tractionat Agabassa, a sector of the Kara River Valley Agricultural DevelopmentProject. Using ploughs was a major innovation for both groups of farmerswho had traditionally farmed manually and who had little or no experienceof handling large livestock.

MILITARY (Regimental histories, wars in Africa)

#24468 Agar–Hamilton, J.A.I. and Turner, L.C.F. CRISIS IN THE DESERT.May-July 1942. Navy blue boards, x+368pp. Illustrated photos, fold-out maps. large 8vo.Owners inscription. eps tanned. excellent contents. nicely rebacked with original spinelaid down, new endpapers, spine sunned but now a VG copy. no dustwrapper. OxfordUniversity Press. Cape Town 1952 1st edition.

£65.00

As one of the three ’Oxford’ volumes this forms a precursor to the later8 (9) volume Purnell South African War Histories. It deals with the mostcritical phase of the Western Desert campaign of 1942. A full account ofthe battles of Gazala and the ’Cauldron’, and the fall of Tobruk are given.



It concludes with Rommel’s invasion of Egypt, his victory at Mersa Matruhand his halting at El Alamein.

#24441 Agar–Hamilton, J.A.I. and Turner, L.C.F. CRISIS IN THE DESERT.May-July 1942. Navy blue boards, x+368pp. Illustrated photos, fold-out maps. large8vo. No inscription. eps tanned. excellent contents. VG+ condition. no dustwrapper.Oxford University Press. Cape Town 1952 1st edition.

£95.00

As one of the three ’Oxford’ volumes this forms a precursor to the later8 (9) volume Purnell South African War Histories. It deals with the mostcritical phase of the Western Desert campaign of 1942. A full account ofthe battles of Gazala and the ’Cauldron’, and the fall of Tobruk are given.It concludes with Rommel’s invasion of Egypt, his victory at Mersa Matruhand his halting at El Alamein.

#24445 Agar–Hamilton, J.A.I. & Turner, L.C.F. THE SIDI REZEG BATTLES1941. Navy cloth boards. xiv + 505pp illustrated large 8vo. No inscription. eps &edges tanned, excellent contents. VG in VG dustwrapper (wear at head and tail of spine,some chips, no major tears or loss). Oxford University Press. Cape Town 1957 1stedition.

£70.00

As one of the three ’Oxford’ volumes this forms a precursor to the later8 (9) volume Purnell South African War Histories. It deals with the famous’Crusader’ offensive, the first operation of the 8th Army, in which the 1stSouth African Division and the SAAF had their earliest experience of warfarein the Western Desert during the great desert offensive of November 1941.

#24450 Brown, James Ambrose. A GATHERING OF EAGLES. South AfricanForces: World War 11. Vol.2. The Campaigns Of The South African Airforce In ItalianEast Africa June 1940 – November 1941. With An Introduction 1912-1939. Blue clothboards. xviii + 342pp. Illustrated photos. maps. large 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown.boards a little marked. 4 square corners. excellent contents. overall G-VG in G-VGdustwrapper (some repaired closed tears, spine creased). Purnell. Johannesburg 19701st edition.

£30.00

The second volume of the South African Official War Histories. Coversthe early history of the SAAF as well as the campaigns in Italian East Africaduring World War 2.

#24449 Brown, James Ambrose. EAGLES STRIKE. South African Forces: WorldWar 11. Vol.IV. The Campaigns Of The South African Air Force In Egypt, Cyrenaica,Libya, Tunisia, Tripolitania And Madagascar 1941–1943. Blue cloth boards. xii + 448pp



illustrated plates, maps. large 8vo. erratum slip. No inscription. eps and edges tanned.excellent contents. rear lower corner bumped, else at least VG conditon in VG dustwrap-per (some wear but no chips, loss, or tears). still attractive. Purnell. Cape Town 19741st edition. isbn 0360001963

£45.00

The fourth volume of the South African Official War Histories. A detailedaccount of the battles fought in North Africa between 1941 & 1943 with thepart played by the SAAF component of the Desert Air Force

#24458 Griffiths, Reginald. FIRST CITY. A Saga of Service. Blue cloth boards.xvi + 292pp. illustrated plates, maps. No inscription. 4 square corners. edges & epstanned. G–VG in G+ dustwrapper (rubbed, chipped, minor closed tears, no major tearsor loss). Howard Timmins. Cape Town 1970 1st edition.

£35.00

Copy No.620 of 1000. This edition is the first and best, the later paper-back does not cover the early years in anything like as much detail. Theregimental history covers the 6th to 8th Frontier Wars of the Eastern Capethat raged from 1835 to 1853, the Langeberg campaign of 1897 in Bechua-naland, and includes service through World War II. The regiment is housedin Grahamstown, being the successor to the original Graham’s Town Vol-unteers. List of Southern Rhodesian personnel attached (in WW2), Roll ofHonour.

#24439 Martin, H.J. & Orpen, Neil. EAGLES VICTORIOUS. South AfricanForces: World War 11. Vol.V1. The Operations Of The South African Forces OverThe Mediterranean And Europe, In Italy, The Balkans And The Aegean, And FromGibraltar And West Africa. Blue cloth boards. 494pp illustrated photos, maps. large8vo. No inscription. VG+ condition in G–VG dustwrapper (worn along bottom & topedges, several small closed tears repaired, no loss or major tears). excellent contents.an above-average copy in typical ’used’ jacket. Purnell. Johannesburg 1977 1st edition.isbn 0868430080

£50.00

The sixth volume of the official South African Official War Histories. TheSAAF in Italy and the Mediterranean, 1943-1945.

#24410 McKay, James. (Late Sergeant In Her Majesty’s 74th Highlanders.REMINISCENCES OF THE LAST KAFIR WAR. Illustrated With Numerous Anec-dotes. Red blind–stamped boards with gilt device. 318pp 8vo. No inscription. eps &edges spotted, else VG+ in VG dustwrapper (light wear only, no chips, tears, or loss).Africana Collectanea Volume XXXVI. Struik Cape Town 1970. (after the 1871 edi-tion).



£60.00

Copy No. 857 of 1000. These memoirs of the 8th Frontier War come froma member of the rank-and-file recruited from Britain. Vividly describingtheir battles and encounters with the ’enemy’, he writes his impressions ofpeople encountered in this land. They were also engaged against Moshesh inBasutoland just prior to their return to the Cape.

#24454 Orpen, Neil. EAST AFRICAN AND ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGNS. SouthAfrican Forces: World War 11. Vol.1. Blue cloth boards. 390pp illustrated large 8vo.No inscription. 4 square corners. eps & edges tanned. contents excellent. VG+ industwrapper (exceptionally bright and clean, lightly crushed at head of spine only, elseno chips, tears, or loss). a particularly smart copy, way above average condition. Purnell.Cape Town 1968 1st edition.

£80.00

The first volume of the South African Official War Histories. The fullstory of South Africa’s contribution to victory in East Africa in 1940–1. Withthe complete history of the operations carried out by the East Africa Forceand the Sudan Force in Eritrea, which resulted in the first totally successfulcampaign carried out by the Allies in World War 2.

#24459 Orpen, Neil. PRINCE ALFRED’S GUARD 1856–1966. Blue cloth boards.346pp illustrated plates, drawings. maps. 8vo. No inscription. edges & eps tanned. topcorners bumped. G-VG in Good dustwrapper (well rubbed, worn at head of spine, scarredto rear, no major loss or tears). Books of Africa. Cape Town 1967. First edition.

£40.00

No. 256 of 1500 copies. The volunteer unit from Port Elizabeth was firstformed in 1877 and saw action in Basutoland, Bechuanaland, the Anglo-Boerwar and both world wars. Illustrated by Penny Miller. Roll of Honour andother appendices.

#24446 Orpen, Neil. VICTORY IN ITALY. South African Forces. World War II.Volume V. Blue cloth boards. 340pp. coloured frontis. illustrated b/w photos, 17 maps.8vo. No inscription. eps & edges tanned. excellent contents. overall VG+ condition inVG dustwrapper (worn at head of spine only, no chips, loss, or tears). Purnell. CapeTown 1975 1st edition. isbn 036000282X

£50.00

The fifth volume of the South African Official War Histories.

#24448 Orpen, Neil. WAR IN THE DESERT. South African Forces. World WarII. Volume III. Blue cloth boards. xii + 538pp. illustrated photos etc. large 8vo. Noinscriptions. eps & edges tanned. contents excellent. 4 square corners. VG+ in G+



dustwrapper (dusty, rubbed, some insect depredations, no loss or tears). Purnell. CapeTown 1971 1st edition. isbn 0360001513

£35.00

The third volume of the official South African Official War Histories. Arecord of the achievement of some 66000 South African volunteers serving atone time in the Middle East during the crucial years of 1941–42.

#24407 Perridge, Frank. HISTORY OF THE PRINCE ALFRED’S GUARD. (WithWhich Is Affilated The Royal Scots Fusiliers). Gilt dec. red cloth boards. 207pp illus-trated large 8vo. No inscriptions. Boards excellent except darkened patchily to rear butfront and spine beautiful. Pages tanned / foxed / stained in places, and foredge stained.musty. Overall G+ in Good dustwrapper (dusty, soft at head of spine, no major loss ortears). All this due to poor storage but despite all still a collectible copy for it’s age andscarcity. E.H. Walton 1939.

£60.00

Prince Alfred’s Guard is the second oldest regiment in South Africa. Ascarce item. Predates the 1967 Orpen history.

#24427 Prince Alfred’s Guard. PRINCE ALFRED’S GUARD. Centenary Of TheBattle Of Umzintzani. December 2, 1877. First Battle Honour Of Prince Alfred’s Guard.Silver on navy wraps, 48pp stapled 8vo. Wraps tanned inside, crease to top corner rearwrap. overall G–VG condition PAG 1977.

£30.00

Contains the week-long programme of events at Port Elizabeth, list ofcombatants, various articles: Huggert. The Regimental Colour, Its History &Significance., Michael Spicer. Beerdrink That Sparked A War. (Backgroundto the battle)., J. Keith Sutton. An Eyewitness Account Of The Battle.,F.K. Mitchell. Battles, Men, And Medals.

#24447 Simkins, Major B.J. & Anderson, Ken. RAND LIGHT INFANTRY.Navy cloth boards. edges & eps tanned. excellent contents. Gilt device on blue clothboards. 371pp illustrated large 8vo. Edges & eps tanned. excellent contents. VG condi-tion in Good dustwrapper (well rubbed, worn and with minor closed tears but no loss).Howard Timmins. Cape Town 1965 1st edition.

£35.00

Regimental history from its inception in 1905 to 1965. Gives an ac-count of the part played during the 1914 Industrial Strike, the German SouthWest Africa Campaign of 1914–15, the 1922 Revolution (Rand mining strike),World War 2 and after.



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