Resultados de búsqueda: History -- South Africa from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Little, Brown and Company, London, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. VI, 282 pages, acknowledgements. Black coloured endpapers. Black coloured boards with gray titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, showing the author's parents (colourised in a sepia toned photograph), against a white background with brown and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. On the rear dustwrapper panel is a reproduction of a newspaper showing the author and her two sisters as young children. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. The autobiography the author who grew up in South Africa at the height of the apartheid system. Her parents were active against the regime -- her mother being a journalist and her father being a pivot of the South African Communist Party and the ANC military wing. It's a story of growing up where being a parent was secondary to political views and of fear. It is also the story of her parents… Leer más

Little, Brown and Company, London, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. VI, 282 pages, acknowledgements. Black coloured endpapers. Black coloured boards with gray titles to the backstrip. Light browning to the text block edges. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page. Photographic dustwrapper, showing the author's parents (colourised in a sepia toned photograph), against a white background with brown and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. On the rear dustwrapper panel is a reproduction of a newspaper showing the author and her two sisters as young children. Rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. The autobiography the author who grew up in South Africa at the height of the apartheid system. Her parents were active against the regime -- her mother being a journalist and her father being a pivot of the South African Communist Party… Leer más

Cassell & Company, Ltd, London, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. introduction by author, biographical summary, bibliography and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of General J. C. Smuts. Within the text there are another 23 pages of black-and-white photography and five maps. Black coloured cloth boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. The biography of one of South Africa's senior early statesman General J. C. Smuts, as seen by his son. Bumping and slight rubbing to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. The underlying board is visible to the lower book corners. Heavy browning of the top text block edge and lighter browning of the other text block edges. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and the foxing is present for the first few and last few pages of the book. Previous owners details to the top edge of the free front and paper. Browning of the internal pages. Size: 8vo - over… Leer más

David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 500 g; X, 300 pages, indexed. Includes facsimiles of correspondence. Photographic illustrated paperback binding. Foreword by Thabo Mbeki. The book has been read, and has minor rubbing and creasing of the paperback binding. . In his foreword the Deputy President hails the telling at last, after years of confidentiality, of this remarkable story of a peace mission undertaken by a South African lawyer in the late 1980s, in the personal quest for a negotiated settlement between the national government of PW Botha and the ANC, in the hope of avoiding anarchy and civil war. Excepted secretly as an intermediary by State President PW Botha, and by the ANC outside the country, Richard Rosenthal engaged in two years of "secret diplomacy". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.… Leer más

Oceanic Publishing Company, Sydney, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. XVI, 17-832 pages, publisher's preface, list of full page half-tone illustrations. At the beginning of the text is a double page, colour, map of South Africa, Orange Free State and the Cape Colony. According to the list of illustrations there should be a coloured frontispiece of Lord Roberts -- but it is not where it should be, and there doesn't appear to be any pages missing. The text is illustrated with 153 halftone photographs/illustrations throughout the text. The first such illustration is a photograph of Queen Victoria, as an old lady. The book is quarter bound in red leather with green coloured cloth boards. Gilt embossed illustration and titles to the front board. Embossed decoration and gilt titles to the backstrip. Marbling to all text block edges. Rubbing and some bumping to the book corners and backstrip edges. The underlying board is visible to the… Leer más

South African Institute of Race Relations, Johannesburg, 1961. first South African Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. XVI, 310 pages, last page blank, acknowledgements, and index. Plain text covers, with black and white stripe and yellow background with black and white titles to the front panel and yellow to the backstrip. The South African government released a survey of race relations on a yearly basis, this being for the year 1959-1960. Bumping and rubbing and creasing to the book corners and to the lower backstrip edge. Reading creases to the backstrip. The results of insect activity can be seen to the front edge of the front panel. The book panels have become yellow, stained and quite marked. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page.. Browning to the verso of the card covers and very light browning to the internal pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Leer más