Search Results: Authors starting with R from Quagga Books

Grahamstown Centre of the Wildlife Society of Southern Africa, 1988. Numerous illustrations. 2 maps. An invaluable reference. 520 pages. 2nd Impression. Condition: Fair to good. Binding: Softcover. Edge-wear to extremities with creasing to the covers and spine. Dog-earred corners.

Human & Rousseau. Text: Afrikaans. The third part of a series by the author on the early history and border conflict in the south of the country in the year 1799. Some mild scattered foxing. 285 Pages. 2nd Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good. Some light edge-wear to extremities.Binding: Hardcover. Olive green boards with some mild edge-wear.

Struik. Compiled for the Graaff Reinet Museum. Limited to 200 copies. Some toning to front and rear prelim edges. 214 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with sunning. Some light discolouration marks to rear board.

Warrent Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art. The Past inside the Present - selected photographs of the author. Numbered 055. B&w photographs. Good, clean and tight volume. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover.

South African Old Roedean Association , 1978. Boards slightly soiled. Book contains numerous black and white photographs. Shows slight foxing to flyleaf.

Voortrekkers Beperk, 1942. Text: Afrikaans. An Adventure story set during the Anglo Boer War. 229 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Fair to good. Binding: Softcover. Cardwraps with new spine. Edge-wear with a couple of tiny nicks and discolouration marks.

Government Press, 1919. Some foxing to the page edges and light wear to the cloth bindings. Bookplate of J.H. Rivett-Carnac to each volume. Volume II has suffered some water damage to the rear board resulting in damage to the cloth, a lean to the spine and some staining to the last few pages. Also splitting to the rear eps.

Witwatersrand University Press. Focusses on the work of sculptors born after 1935. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and over twenty individual essays on sculptors represented in the University of the Witwatersrand collections. From wire toys and bronzes, modernist steel constructions, politically charged multi-media assemblages, these works show the common history and creative diversity of sculpture in South Africa. 206 pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Card-wraps with edge-wear and creasing to corners. Rubbing on spine edges. Bookseller's label on rear cover.

Johannesburg Art Gallery. A catalogue published for the exhibition of South African sculpture in wood. Cockling and some soiling from Page 81 - 88 during to water damage as well as the rear end paper. Thumbing and some light soiling to all edges. 187 Pages. Binding still firm. Very good, Card wraps

Witwatersrand University Press. This catalogue concentrates on the work of sculptors born after 1935. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and over twenty individual essays on sculptors represented in the collections of the University of the Witwatersrand. From wire toys and representational bronzes, modernist steel constructions, politically charged multi-media assemblages - showing the common history and the creative diversity of sculpture in South Africa. Some foxing to top edge. Address label of previous owner on half title page. 206 pages. Contents clean and firmly bound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Thick card-wraps with edge-wear and some rubbing. Small label on rear cover.

Fernwood Press, 2014. Extensive and authoritative monograph on the artist. Bound in laminated pictorial paper covered boards. 224 Pages. Edition: Reprint. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover.

John Murray. The author attempts to recreate and analyse one of the bitterest fighting campaigns of the Anglo-Boer war. This volume forms a companion volume to The Battle of Majuba Hill. Red tint with some light watermark fading to top edge. 13 illustrations and 4 maps. 150 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good-. Some edge-wear mostly to top edge with some toning to the verso. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards. Some mild edge-wear.

Brenthurst Press. One of the most important of the 18th century travellers in southern Africa. Volume 1 includes 43 plates (including frontispiece and 2 maps. Volume II includes 91 plates (including frontispiece) and 2 maps. Green tint to top edge. Contents clean and binding tight. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Very good. Some light edge-wear. Rubbing to covers. Binding: Hardcover. Green cloth. Boards in very good condition.

C Struik (Pty) Ltd. A special study of "Callers at the Cape" whose visits are only to be found in log-books and diaries which have never been published. Translated and annotated by Major R Raven-Hart. 216 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good-. Tiny open tears to the rear fold. Foxing to verso and rear panel. Edge-wear with some browning. Insect nibbling to spine. Binding: Hardcover. Olive green cloth boards.

A A Balkema. 65 engravings, maps, title pages and portraits - most of which have been reproduced as full or double-pages. Coloured illustrations tipped in at the frontispiece of each volume. 527 Pages. This is a heavy item and will incur additional shipping. 1st Edition. Condition: Good to very good. Dust jacket: Good to very good. Some mild edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with insect nibbling to the cloth on both volumes.

Isbister and Company Ltd. Written by the author who wanted a memoir in which those who knew Barney Barnato would find his stories told in his own words and those who did not know him would be able to see what sort of a man he was. A business man and astute financier from the old Kimberley camp days and through the development of Johannesburg. 6 portraits and 4 cartoons. Small splits to end papers. Previous owner's details on fep. Some light toning to edges of frontispiece. Deckle edging with spots of foxing and toning. Text clean. 208 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to good. Binding: Hardcover. Bumping to extremities. Fraying to lower spine edge and corners. Some small discolouration marks to boards.

Isbister and Company Ltd. Written by the author who wanted a memoir in which those who knew Barney Barnato would find his stories told in his own words and those who did not know him would be able to see what sort of a man he was. A business man and astute financier from the old Kimberley camp days and through the development of Johannesburg. 6 portraits and 4 cartoons. Splitting and a few tiny abrasions to end papers. Age-toning and foxing to the page edges. Text clean. Deckle edging. 208 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with edge-wear to all extremities. Fraying. small nicks to the spine edges. Some evidence of insect nibbling.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2003. Collection of photographs with introductory essay. Parallel English and Hebrew text.

Simon's Town Historical Society. Signed by the author. Special edition written and researched by the author to commemorate the centenary. No. 9 of a limited edition of 600 copies. Tiny mark on the title page. Numerous b&w illustrations. 95 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Everard Read CIRCA on Jellicoe. Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of 17 March to 30 April 2011. 57 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Mild edge-wear. Lamination is peeling back on the lower LH corner of rear cover.