Hello, We list below items that we have on auction starting this Thursday.
Full descriptions with images and reserve pricing are given on the auction site. http://www.antiquarianauctions.com The auction is on preview now, full details are available once the auction opens for bidding. The auction commences this Thursday 10th October and finishes next Thursday 17th October at 18.30 local time. You need to register to take part in the auction and either myself or antiquarianauctions.com will be pleased to assist you with the bidding process - which is actually simplicity in itself. If you can log in, you can bid. A special note. There is _no_ buyers premium payable on hammer prices (up to 25% on conventional auctions). The winning bid is the price that is paid (hopefully by you). --------------------------------------------------- Lot 52. C.J. Skead. HISTORICAL MAMMAL INCIDENCE IN THE CAPE PROVINCE. Volume 1. The Western & Northern Cape. Volume 2. The Eastern Half Of The Cape Province, Including The Ciskei, Transkei, And East Griqualand. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 53. Dugard Campbell. IN THE HEART OF BANTULAND. Signature of Author on ffep. Includes letter from Brenthurst librarian Marcelle Weiner on E. Oppenheimer & Son notepaper to later owner, Peter Carlton Jones of Anglo American, confirming that the book was a copy from the Brenthurst Library and ceding ownership by cancellation of the library entry. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 54. Rev. Charles Pettman. NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICAN PLACE NAMES. From the Hosken library with the bookplate (showing the Sotheby's lot number). original errata slip. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 55. Maryna Fraser. THE STORY OF TWO CAPE FARMS. Limited edition printed for private distribution in 1980 precedes the 1981 numbered edition of 300 copies. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 56. J.G. Dollman & J.B. Burlace. ROWLAND WARD'S RECORDS OF BIG GAME 1922 Believed the only issue between 1914 & 1928. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 57. Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. SOUTH AFRICAN SUMMER. 5000 Miles With A Car And Caravan-Trailer. Inscribed thus: "For Bobbie, having met both the Authoress and the Laird. ??? 1933". Signature not clear, could be 'Dorothy', but maybe not. View image. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 58. P. Amauri Talbot. IN THE SHADOW OF THE BUSH. There is no area of Ekoi culture that the author does not describe. The author traveled this area of Nigeria extensively when interaction with western civilisation was unknown. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 59. South Africa Photo-Publishing. PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOUTH AFRICA. A copy in need of restoration. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 60. A.H. Hornsby. THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS. A Practical Matter-Of-Fact Account, To The Latest Date. Kimberley Series No.5. Historical Society Of Kimberley And The Northern Cape. 1979. Facsimile edition of the 1874 Chicago edition. unnumbered copy of 500 only. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 61. Jerome L. Babe. THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS. Kimberley Series No.3. Historical Society Of Kimberley And The Northern Cape 1976. Facsimile Edition of the Wesley, NY, 1872 edition. unnumbered copy of 500 only. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 62. Jacqueline A. Kalley. Reuben Musiker. Kenneth Stanley Birch. JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS - A BIBLIOPHILE? & ASPECTS OF JOHANNESBURG HISTORY. & THE BIRCH FAMILY. University of The Witwatersrand. Africana Series, number 1, 2 and 4. Three distinct items bound together one volume yellow cloth boards. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 63. Andre Brink. RUMOURS OF RAIN. Signature by Author to title page. Includes one blank sheet of author's Rhodes University notepaper. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 64. Andre Brink. LOOKING ON DARKNESS. Signature by Author on title page, and inscribed to Rhodes University fellow-academics on ffep thus. "To Terence & Margot - with my best wishes. Andre. Dec 74". --------------------------------------------------- Lot 65. Montagu Bank. FIVE POUND NOTE, No.0801. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 66. South African Home Talk. FOLLOW SOUTH AFRICA'S LEADER TO VICTORY! Supplement to South African Home Talk August 1941. Single sheet shows photograph of Smuts bounded by large red "V". --------------------------------------------------- Lot 67. Union of South Africa. PUBLIC SERVICE LIST. Containing Particulars Regarding Officers Of The Public Service As At June 1934. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 68. Union Castle Line. LIST OF PASSENGERS. R.M.M.V. "Athlone Castle" Leaving Cape Town 9th July, 1937. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 69. Union Castle Safmarine. MENUS. R.M.S. WINDSOR CASTLE. 5 items. September/October 1973. --------------------------------------------------- Lot 70. Captain R.J. Macdonald. HISTORY OF THE DRESS OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. Signed by Author. Copy No.288 of "300 Copies for Guarantors, being First Proofs". Bookplate of Lieut-Col. William Lacey Hutchinson, the Guarantor. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 71. R.A. War Commemoration Fund. THE ROYAL ARTILLERY WAR COMMEMORATION BOOK. Includes action seen by the Regiment in Mesopotamia and South-West Africa with a 1914 photo of "Skinny Liz" at Walfisch Bay, German East Africa. Illustrated with works by many different war artists. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 72. Stephen Gray (Ed). SOUTH AFRICA PLAYS. Contains the following plays. Somewhere On The Border by Anthony Akerman The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya Curl Up And Dye by Susan Pam-Grant Over The Hill by Paul Slabolepszy Just Like Home by Pieter-Dirk Uys. Signed by all playwrights except Pieter-Dirk Uys. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 73. Ezekiel Mphalele. VOICES IN THE WHIRLWIND And Other Essays. Inscribed by Author on ffep thus: "With all good wishes". Also signed by previous owner, author Jeff Opland, 20 March 1975. -------------------------------------------------- Lots 74 to 87 are Modern First Editions in the genre of science fiction. These are all attractive examples in well above average condition. Edmund Crispin. BEST SF FIVE. Science Fiction Stories Edited By ... Frederik Pohl. THE SEVENTH GALAXY READER. Edmund Cooper. THE SQUARE ROOT OF TOMORROW. Roger Elwood. CHILDREN OF INFINITY. Robert Sheckley. THE PEOPLE TRAP. Leonard Leuw. MOWBRAD. Eric Frank Russell. DARK TIDES. Max Erlich. THE EDICT. Arthur C. Clarke. THE WIND FROM THE SUN. S.T. Cambridge. THE TENTH LEPER AND OTHER STORIES. Frederic Brown. PARADOX LOST. Robert Bloch. PLEASANT DREAMS/NIGHTMARES. Poul Anderson. TRADERS TO THE STARS. Poul Anderson. TIME AND STARS. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 177 Julius Eichbaum. SCENARIA. 1977-1998. Bound 19 matching volumes orange cloth boards. This was South Africa's premier magazine for the performing arts - opera, theatre, ballet, music. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 178. Diocesan College (Bishops). DIOCESAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE. Bound non-uniformly in 69 hardcover volumes. 1889-2006. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 179. Barrie Gasson & Andy Smith. KALK BAY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BULLETIN. Nos. 1-5 (1997-2001). 5 issues, 4 bound in 1 volume of Association's attractive official binding with gilt decoration and title on red vynide boards. -------------------------------------------------- Lot 180. University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Military Science. SCIENTIA MILITARIA. 6 issues. loose, not bound. Nos. 27 (1997). 28.1-2 (1998). 29 (1999). 30.1-2 (2000). -------------------------------------------------- Lot 189. Parliament Of The Union Of South Africa. SOUVENIR OF THE VISIT OF THE RT. HON. HAROLD MACMILLAN. Official parliament brochure containing the 'winds of change' speech of Harold Macmillan and Dr Hendrik Verwoerd's reply. -------------------------------------------------- Items on this auction are not available for pre-auction offers. Items unsold on the auction will be returned immediately to shop price on conclusion of the auction. If there is an item of interest, please do bid on auction. Post-auction offers are not accepted. Finally, we repeat our offer to assist you should you need help as a first-time bidder on the auction. Regards Ian Balchin. -- Fables Bookshop (Proprietor: Ian Balchin) Est. 1990 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa. 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