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An African Sketchbook. Drawings & Watercolours of Kenya by Ray Nestor with extracts from his memoirs
by Nestor, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0863431852
- ISBN 13
- 9780863431852
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Tolworth: Fountain Press, 1988) 0863431852. 4to; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 111; several illustrations, in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine panel; light bump to top fore-corner of upper board; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Ray Nestor travelled to Kenya to work as a surveyor two years before the First World War began. He returned to Kenya after enlisting and being seriously injured in the first Battle of the Somme. Ray Nestor became a farmer, his first love however was sketching and painting the people and landscape of Kenya. He also executed many fine portrait drawings of his friends including Berkeley Cole and Denys Finch-Hatton whose life and love for Karen Blixen inspired the film Out of Africa. An African Sketchbook brings together a selection of superb drawings from his sketchbooks, plus many of his evocative watercolours. The illustrations are complemented by Ray Nestor's memoirs which give a fascinating insight into life in colonial East Africa." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12801
- Title
- An African Sketchbook. Drawings & Watercolours of Kenya by Ray Nestor with extracts from his memoirs
- Author
- Nestor, Ray
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0863431852
- ISBN 13
- 9780863431852
- Publisher
- (Tolworth: Fountain Press, 1988) 0863431852
- Place of Publication
- Tolworth
- This edition first published
- December 31, 1988
- Keywords
- Happy Valley. Kenya. Karen Blixen. Bror Blixen. Berkeley Cole. Lord Delamere. Denys Finch-Hatton East Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- East Africa;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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