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THE SOUTH AFRICAN TWINS
Written by Daphne Rooke. Illustrated by Biro.
Stock no. 1402576
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Orange boards, black titles to front cover and spine. B/w illustrations. 191 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Bottom of spine and boards are a little faded. Rear board is marked. Foxing throughout. Yellow dustwrapper is edgeworn, chipped and grubby. Spine is browned and has yellow tape at bottom. Crayon marks to top of front panel. Verso is browned and has white sticky label at top of rear panel and flap.

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REMINISCENCES OF THE LAST KAFIR WAR
Written by James McKay.
Stock no. 2113819
Published by C. Struik. 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Illustrated with numerous anecdotes. Limited edition, to 1,000 numbered copies. B/w illustrations. This is copy no. 538. Some page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased, with a few nicks and some grubby marks and browning.

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WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA, AND AFTER PRETORIA: THE GUERILLA WAR (4 VOLUME SET)
Written by H.W. Wilson.
Stock no. 2112218
Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited. Circa 1901. Good condition.

A History of the Boer War 1899-1900. Very large format. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos and illustrations. This set comprises of the 2 copies of With the Flat and the 2 supplement volumes of After Pretoria; all uniform to each other. Heavy! All spines are faded and browned, with some wear. Differing amounts of damp staining to covers and pages internally. Still a good working set.

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WITH GENERAL FRENCH AND THE CAVALRY IN SOUTH AFRICA
Written by Charles Sydney Goldmann.
Stock no. 2111576
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1903. Good condition.

Maroon cloth spine, with gilt title; rest of covers are black. Many fold-out pages of maps etc. Some b/w photos. Spine has been rebacked, with original laid down; a little chipping and loss to original. Bumping and wear to corners. A few marks to covers. New endpapers. Frontis is MISSING. Foxing to some pages and outer page edges. A few page corner losses.

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WITH A SHOW THROUGH SOUTHERN AFRICA AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR
Written by Charles Du Val.
Stock no. 2111042
Published by Tinsley Brothers. 1882. Very good condition.

Two volumes, bound into one volume; this has been bound in a modern binding; cloth spine; marbled boards. B/w illustrations. Light wear to cover edges. Some foxing and page browning. A few margin marks. A little annotation.

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THE BIRDS OF NATAL AND ZULULAND
Written by P.A. Clancey. Illustrated by P.A. Clancey.
Stock no. 1807201
Published by Oliver & Boyd. 1st 1964. Very good condition.

Large format. 41 colour plates plus b/w text figures and photographs. Folding map to rear. xxxiv and 511 pages including index. Corners rubbed, title block to spine rubbed. Rear cover mottled and a little marked. Top edge of text block has minor foxing. Contents clean.

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KLOOF AND KARROO
Written by H.A. Bryden.
Stock no. 2107907
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1889. Very good condition.

Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony. With a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of the antelopes and larger game. Cloth covers with gilt titles and vignettes. Tissue-guarded b/w plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some chipping to top of spine; minimal loss. Spotting to covers. Ink stamp to half-title page. Foxing to outer page edges. A few marks to some page margins.

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TREES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Written by Eve Palmer; Norah Pitman.
Stock no. 806267
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Three volumes. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Covering all known indigenous species in the Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland. Wrappers of Vol 1 and 2 are covered in self-adhesive clear film. In the case of Volume 3 the clear film has been used to stick the wrapper to the book. Books are fine.

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SOUTHERN AFRICAN PREHISTORY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS
Written by Richard G. Klein.
Stock no. 692586
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. 404 pages. ISBN: 9061910978. Corners bumped. Wrapper browned and stained.

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THE BLACK MAN'S PORTION
Written by D.H. Reader.
Stock no. 988933
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1961. Slightly better than good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. Pages: xv, 179. History, Demography and Living Conditions in the Native Locations of East London, Cape Province. B/w photos. Book: Ex-lib, stamps to prelims, else contents very good.

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THE DEMAND FOR SOUTH AFRICAN DECIDUOUS FRUITS
No author listed.
Stock no. 989967
Published by HMSO. 1933. Almost very good condition.

Report of an Investigation by the Statistics and Intelligence Branch of the Empire Marketing Board into the Retail Marketing of South African Deciduous Fruit, July 1933. Grey card wraps. 70 pages. Covers edge rubbed, some pencil writing to top edges of covers. Contents clean.

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PLATKOPS CHILDREN
Written by Pauline Smith. Illustrated by Barbara Shaw.
Stock no. 730257
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1935. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A spirited picture of the life of some South African children on the Veldt. Yellow cloth, brown titles and vignettes. Full-page b/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Light foxing to covers and top edges slightly darkened. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A couple of foxspots to contents but generally clean. White pictorial wrapper is edge chipped with slight loss, browned to spine and a bit grubby.

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