Search Results: Authors starting with F from Snookerybooks

Durban: University of Durban-Westville, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. Inaugural address. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Laminated wraps. 27pp unmarked.

Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Ex-lib with usual concomitants. 136pp.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards and extremities rubbed. 502pp with a very few pencil marks. Book is tender at both joints with the result that the binding is a little loose but still holding well.

London: B T Batsford Ltd, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards and text clean. Very nice copy.

New York: The Jowett Institute of Physical Culture, 1938. Soft cover. Very Good. 32pp. saddle-stitched, illus., unmarked. Wraps a little rubbed. 110 x 150mm.

Soft cover. Near Fine. 40pp. saddle-stitched. Unblemished. Very scarce.

Pretoria: Department of Native Affairs, 1954. Soft cover. Good. 24pp saddle-sticthed with b/w photos. Three different owners' names to front wrap. Wraps a bit worn and tanned at extremities. Bit of annotation and pen underlining to 3 or 4 pages. 155 x 240mm. Very scarce apartheid document.

New York: Macmillan Co., 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Cracks at both joints but binding steady. Splitting to spine lower edge. Extremities of boards rubbed. 662pp unmarked.

London: Gee & Co, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. DJ shelfrubbed and with sellotape repair at spine head. 162pp. + b/w plates. No prev ownership marks or o/w.

London: Africa Evangelical Fellowship, 1966. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Wraps lightly shelfworn. 132pp. + b/w plates.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. 220 x 285 x 50mm. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards clean and undamaged. 607pp unmarked. Very nice copy. Heavy at 1.93kg.

London.: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. The boards are rubbed at the extremities and faded with a narrow strip of sunning along both top edges. Upper board sl. cocked. The spine is very sunned with a bit of incipient splitting to the spine's lower edge. The prev owner, John N Jonsson (1925-2011), printed his name to the ffep and affixed his small label to the front pastedown. Tipped in to the ffep is a resume of Jonsson's career. He was a "native South African, who actively protested apartheid, ran for South African Parliament; was only Baptist minister to sign [the] Kairos Document as a plea to churches to demand an end to racial segregation". 96pp. illus. unmarked.

London: Gee and Co., 1946. Hardcover. Good. Ex-lib with usual trappings. 35pp. unmarked. Cracked at title page and at p. 35. Possible 1st ed. Reprinted from 1939 articles in The Accountant.

London: Gee & Co, 1949. Soft cover. Very Good. 34pp. unmarked, saddle-stitched. Wraps clean and undamaged. Prev owner's details to half-title page.

Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). "This is the first novel to be written about Madagascar, the Madagascar which for one hundred years echoed with the orgies and lusts and brutalities of its pagan rulers". No date but c. 1960. inscribed on the ffep to the State President of South Africa, CR Swart, and his wife. Very scarce.

Langton Information Systems, 1979. Soft cover. Fair. 177pp unmarked. Contents complete but binding poor with a number of pages detached. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Laminated wraps. 205 x 295mm.

Cambridge University Press, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 385pp. with a bit of orange highlighting to the prelims o/w seemingly unread.

Afrikaanse Pers, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. The lower edge of the spine is serrated and the lower board almost detached. 146pp. with stains to the textblock edges bleeding into the content's margins. No prev ownership markings or o/w. A scarce collection of Zulu folktales.

Durban: Soutj African Sugar Association, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Boards clean and undamaged with gilt titling to spine. The dw is worn along the edges. Small label to large colour fold-out at front which is a little rubbed at the outer edge. 343pp. One of the many fold-outs is proud of the outer edge of the textblock and lightly rubbed. No markings. Heavy book.

Durban: South African Sugar Association, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Plastic protected dw a little serrated along the edges. Boards clean and undamaged. Cartographic endpapers. Prev owner's name to ffep. Large colour foldout at front. 343pp. illus. unmarked + numerous foldouts. Binding tight. Heavy book.