Life at the Cape a Hundred Years Ago. By a Lady
by 'A Lady'
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: C. Struik, 1963). Small 4to; original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt device to upper cover; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (viii) + 119; plates after contemporary illustrations by Thomas Bowler. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and sunned; light browning. Very good condition. "What she tells is very interesting, especially about social customs. She writes about the 'upper-ten', the old Dutch and English families, their elegant houses, what they did and did not do, what they ate and drank, their picnic parties and their dance evenings; she also tells about the fishermen, the Malay tailors, and the whole somewhat untidy but colourful scenes of the 'men in the street'." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9879
- Title
- Life at the Cape a Hundred Years Ago. By a Lady
- Author
- 'A Lady'
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: C. Struik, 1963)
- Keywords
- Cape of Good Hope. British Settlers. Cape Town. Social History. Local History. Thomas Bowler Cape
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cape;
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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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...