Friends of the Bushveld
by King, Fay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1954). 8vo; original yellow cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. 223; illustrated from drawings by Grace Huxtable. Dustwrapper foxed and tanned, partially discoloured, with trace of fishmothing, and archival tape repairs to reverse of edge-tears; top fore-corner of initial leaves somewhat bleached; some spotting to edges; earlier owner's name on front pastedown; some foxing. Fair to good condition. "Fay King, herself born and brought up in South Africa, brings love and knowledge of the country to this book about a family living on a Bushveld farm. It is a happy life for Jane le Roux and her four brothers and sisters. Once a week they visit the dorp and see their grandmother and their friends there, but for the rest of the time they are content to be in the Bushveld, where they hear ancient legends from the Zulu Teller of Tales, or watch the wild animals and birds, for whom the le Roux land is sanctuary, living out their often fierce lives (there are exciting accounts of lions hunting buck, or of fights between oddly assorted creatures - an eagle and a baboon, a snake and a wild cat)." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8288
- Title
- Friends of the Bushveld
- Author
- King, Fay
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Jonathan Cape, 1954)
- Keywords
- Children's literature. Bushveld. African animals. Childrens' Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens' Books;
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.
Glossary
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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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....