Candlelight poets of the Cape
by Desmond, Nerine
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1967). Small quarto, dustwrapper, rubbed, pp. (ix) + 91, line-illustrations in the text. Bookseller's label on the front pastedown endpaper, edges slightly foxed. Number 16 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. 'The first poets of the Cape are all forgotten now and Nerine Desmond decided to rescue some of them from oblivion.' .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2616
- Title
- Candlelight poets of the Cape
- Author
- Desmond, Nerine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- (Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1967)
- Keywords
- South Africa. South African literature. Poetry. Cape of Good Hope. Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
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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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...