South African History from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Pretoria: Aktuele Publikasies, 1983) 0620067039. 210 x 138 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 145. Wrappers very slightly rubbed; a little foxing. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. Manifesto of the hardline leader of the right-wing Herstigde Nasionale Party. 'Die sentrale probleem van die Suid-Afrikaanse staatkunde is dat ras en kleur nie maar net "nuanses van pigmentasie" binne een nasie is… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Griffel Media, 2010) 9781920424107. 229 x 149 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 296, incl. index. Scar of earlier bookseller's hand-stamp to inside of upper cover; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. Extremely uncommon. "Rassis, profeet, egoïs, kampvegter, held - wie was Eugène Terre'Blanche, hierdie boer van Ventersdorp wat 'n bekroonde eenbedryf en gedigte geskryf… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Melinda Ferguson Books, 2022) 9781990973420. 234 x 152 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 244; plates. Very good condition. "Too White to be Coloured, Too Coloured to be Black is a dazzling hybrid of memoir, commentary, first-hand observation and analysis, encapsulating defining moments of contemporary South African history and society. As a photographer, journalist, academic and columnist, the author forces… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Human Rights Media Centre, 2009) 9780620383745. 207 x 148 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 254; photographs and portrait sketches. Very good condition. "This book challenges us. The storytellers are not just talking about those things society is comfortable with. They take us out of our comfort zones, into areas which we are all taught should not be spoken… Saber más sobre este artículo

(no place: National Party of South Africa, 1964). 8vo; original white boards, lettered in blue on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 349, incl. index; photographs. Ex-library copy: dustwrapper housed in cellophane cover, which is mounted to lower board; stamps, pocket and label scars to front endpaper; occasional fox spot. Good reading copy. Afrikaans text. The foreword is provided by H. F. Verwoerd,… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bloemfontein: MA thesis in unpublished form [University of the Orange Free State], 1988). 208 x 148 mm; cloth-backed printed card wrappers; pp. (iv) + III + (vi) + 161 + (xv); printed rectos. Wrappers slightly creased; occasional marginal annotations; penned name of earlier owner (UOFS academic Leo Barnard) to first and one subsequent page. Good condition. Afrikaans text. This work… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Cover2Cover Books, 2014) 9780992201791. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription to title page. 220 x 140 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xi + (i) + 131; genealogical table; plates. Occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "May I have this dance tells the courageous and moving story of Connie Ngcaba, who grew up in the Eastern Cape, where she… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1990) 0868521728. 198 x 128 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + 350; map. Wrappers a little rubbed and sunned; some foxing; regular browning throughout. Good condition. "Naboth Mokgatle was born in 1911 in a tribal village called Phokeng near Rustenburg, Transvaal. His youth alternated between schooling by Lutheran missionaries and spells of lonely… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2002) 9781868427185. 229 x 147 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xi + (i) + 164; photographs. Small crease to top fore-corner of lower cover. Near-fine condition. "Bram Fischer was born into an aristocratic Afrikaans family but became one of South Africa's leading revolutionaries. Regarded in his youth as having a brilliant career ahead of him, he rebelled not… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London and New York: Routledge, 2001) 0415211786. 245 x 174 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + (ii) + 260, incl. index; numerous maps. Very good condition. "Since the first edition was published in 1994 as The Atlas of Apartheid there has been enormous change in South Africa. Gradually apartheid is being dismantled but in many sectors the effects have… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Wits University Press / Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996) 9781868143030. Author's signed presentation inscription to half-title. 216 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xvi + 483, incl. index; contemporary illustrations. Fine condition. "Brian Willan has assembled and edited this fascinating collection from a variety of disparate and often obscure sources, making a comprehensive selection of Plaatje's writings available… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970) 34012931X. 8vo; original beige boards, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + xi + (iii) + 234, incl. index; frontis. Backstrip and portion of boards slightly sunned; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; light spotting to top edge. Very good condition. 'In the years before World War I new prophets stepped… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1973). 4to; original cherry-red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's monogram to upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. x + 261, incl. index; reproductions of contemporary artwork, including full-colour plates. Dustwrapper very slightly creased, and tanned on spine panel; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; tape marks to endpapers; sporadic, light… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2015) 9781868426552. 232 x 152 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. ix + (i) + 333, incl. index; plates. Fine condition. "In the dying years of apartheid, a most extraordinary story hit the headlines. Agent Olivia Forsyth had escaped from ANC imprisonment in Angola. Upon her return home she was feted as a hero by the government. In… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Struik, 1992) 1868252795. Folio; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 303, incl. index; profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Very good condition. "A Vision of the Past is a fascinating photographic survey of life in South Africa from the early years of the Victorian era to the time of Union… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020) 9780624088233. Author's presentation inscription to first page. 233 x 151 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 255, incl. index. Faint crease to upper cover. Very good condition. "The ANC's cadre deployment has inextricably entwined the ruling party and the state. In KwaZulu-Natal, the party's powerhouse province, IFP-ANC warfare has morphed into an internal ANC battle that has… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2003) 1868421465. 215 x 133 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 278, incl. index; illustrations in text. Near-fine condition. "This is the story of the doomed love affair between Kitty Jewell and Peter Lobengula. It is at once a heart-breaking love story, a historical mystery, and a window into popular racism, popular journalism, and feminism in… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1972) 360001084. 4to; original cream boards, lettered in red on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xi + (i) + 177; detailed illustrations of costume, including some in full colour. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; small scuff to front free endpaper. Very good condition. "This book is presented as a pageant of South… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2007) 9780624043591. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper in removable protector; decorative endpapers; pp. x + 454, incl. index; profusely illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs, facsimiles and reproductions of contemporary photographs and artwork. Fine condition. Thirty-one of South Africa's foremost historians have contributed to this groundbreaking history of the region. "Since the last comprehensive… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2014) 9781770098800. 235 x 154 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xx + 584, incl. index; maps; photographs in text. Fine condition. "The treatment of the various forces opposed to the apartheid state, whether aligned with the ANC, more exclusively black-oriented groups, or smaller left-liberal and ultra-left factions, is notably evenhanded and judiciously critical. ... Even in a… Saber más sobre este artículo