The Road to Sharpeville
by Sachs, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Johannesburg: The Dial Press, 1961). 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 218. Dustwrapper foxed and edgerworn; spine slightly cocked and corners a little bumped; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout. Fair to good. "The Road to Sharpeville is a study of the present stressful political situation in South Africa. The contents are unique. Not only does Mr. Sachs offer his own expert opinion, but he has gone to great lengths in getting the opinions of leading South African personalities, in the form of comprehensive interviews." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9855
- Title
- The Road to Sharpeville
- Author
- Sachs, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: The Dial Press, 1961)
- Keywords
- Apartheid. Resistance. National Party South African History
- Bookseller catalogs
- South African History;
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...