Search Results: Titles starting with D from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1980) 0624014479. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (viii) + 366, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn; boards slightly shelf-rubbed; earlier owner's hand-stamp to flyleaf; trace of foxing. Good condition. Afrikaans text. "Dr. D. F. Malan, vierdie Eerste Minister van Suid-Afrika, grondlegger van afsonderlike ontwikkeling en argitek van Afrikanereenheid, kan tereg beskou word as die grootste figuur in die groei en kanalisering van Afrikaner-Nasionalisme op politieke vlak. In D. F. Malan stel prof. H. B. Thom, wat dr. Malan jare as huisvriend geken het, die leser aan hierdie groot staatsman bekend." .

(Johannesburg: Perskor, 1981) 0628020953. 4to; original pale brown boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 110; liberally illustrated. Dustwrapper sunned and fishmothed; some foxing to edges. Very good condition, in a modest dustwrapper. Afrikaans text. ' "Arbeid in vuurhitte wat die stempel dra van deeglikheid, want die reis is ver en die wêreld onherbergsaam." Aan die arbeid van D. F. Malherbe bring ons hulde - in die woord waarvan hy self meester was, in die beeld van sy wêreld waardeur ons tot groter insig kom van 'n onverskrokke landoopmaker, redenaar, skrywer, uitdraer van die lewende woord. Sy eie woorde sê dit raak genoeg, soos dié gedenkalbum sal getuig, so sy nagelate werk, en die pas verskene Twee nagelate novelles en Die slagmes en ander nagelate verhale, wat spesiaal vir Malherbejaar gereed gemaak is en nou vir die eerste keer in boekvorm verskyn. Hierin sal ons wel ontdek die waarheid in Malherbe se eie woord: Wie vir sy tyd genoegsaam was, hy… Read More

(Bloemfontein, no date, circa 1941). 'n Huldigingswerk by geleentheid van Prof. dr. D.F. Malherbe se sestigste verjaarsdag .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1974) 062400583. 8vo; original brown boards; dustwrapper; pp. viii + 318. Some light foxing to endpapers; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. A collection of essays on the work of D. J. Opperman, starting with 'Heilige beeste' (1945), and concluding with 'Edms. Bpk.' (1970). 'Hierdie bundel is saamgestel in opdrag van die uitgewer en wil 'n huldeblyk wees aan die digter D. J. Opperman by geleentheid van sy sestigste verjaardag. Nie alles wat oor Opperman geskryf is, is hier opgeneem nie. Daar moes noodwendig 'n keuse gedoen word. Die bundel is dus nie "volledig" nie, maar met sy verskeidenheid artikels, besprekings en beskouings kon hy in hoë mate verteenwoordigend word, danksy die welwillende medewerking van alle betrokke persone en instansies.' .

(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1986) 0798119993. 8vo; original salmon-coloured boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 520, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and tanned; light browning to edges; some annotations to rear free endpaper. Good to very good condition. Afrikaans text. 'In hierdie omvattende, ryk geskakeerde werk skep prof. J.C. Kannemeyer 'n onvergeetlike beeld van die groot Afrikaanse digter "Dirk der duisende". Hy beskryf Opperman se boeiende lewensloop van plaasseun in Natal tot sy onbetwisbare posisie as doyen van die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Sy invloed op veral die Afrikaanse poësie, die rol wat hy agter die skerms gespeel het, sy vormende invloed op jong talente - dit word alles helder in hierdie boek uitgebeeld.' .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1974) 062400583. 8vo; original brown boards; dustwrapper; pp. viii + 318. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed; some light foxing to endpapers; spotting to edges. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. A collection of essays on the work of D. J. Opperman, starting with 'Heilige beeste' (1945), and concluding with 'Edms. Bpk.' (1970). 'Hierdie bundel is saamgestel in opdrag van die uitgewer en wil 'n huldeblyk wees aan die digter D. J. Opperman by geleentheid van sy sestigste verjaardag. Nie alles wat oor Opperman geskryf is, is hier opgeneem nie. Daar moes noodwendig 'n keuse gedoen word. Die bundel is dus nie "volledig" nie, maar met sy verskeidenheid artikels, besprekings en beskouings kon hy in hoë mate verteenwoordigend word, danksy die welwillende medewerking van alle betrokke persone en instansies.' .

(Amsterdam: Jacobus van Hardenberg, 1697). Small 4to; recent half Oasis goatskin with marbled sides; spine tooled in compartments, with gilt lettering piece to second compartment; new endpapers; title page expertly silked; pp. (xx) + 391. A very attractive copy of this uncommon work. This is the earliest edition of the poet's collected original poetry and translations. David van Hoogstraten (1658-1724), physician, lived at the tail end of the Dutch Golden Age. He came from a family active in the arts, and achieved some renown as a poet, translator and linguist. He died in Amsterdam on November 21, 1724, having fallen into the water in fog eight days before. .

(Pretoria: J. H. de Bussy, and Cape Town: H.A.U.M., 1936). 199 x 138 mm; printed wrappers; pp. 142 + (ii); frontis. portrait and a further 3 plates. Some shallow fishmothing to bottom edges of lower wrapper and final two leaves; wrappers a little sunned and very slightly soiled; spotting to fore- and top edges, occasionally elsewhere. Good condition. Afrikaans text. (Nienaber I, p. 268) Overview of the work of J.F. van Oordt, a seminal figure in the development of Afrikaans folk literature, who wrote under the nom de plume of 'D'Arbez'. "Hierdie studie van mnr. Nienaber oor die lewe en werk van D'Arbez wil ek hiermee by die Afrikaanslesende publiek inlei. Die stof is nog intyds in Suid-Afrika en in Nederland versamel, omdat getuienis uit die eerste hand aangaande D'Arbez en sy lewenswerk skaars word. Verder is die boek van belang omdat dit die vraagstuk aan die orde stel volgens watter kriterium 'n kunswerk ingedeel moet word in die Afrikaanse letterkunde:… Read More

(London: Barclays Bank International Limited, 1975). Royal 8vo; pictorial boards, with gilt lettering to spine and upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxvii + (iii) + 339, incl. index; maps; several illustrations, incl. some in colour. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed, and sunned on spine panel. Very good condition. "This the story of one man's vision, the vision of Frederick Craufurd Goodenough, chairman of Barclays Bank Limited, who conceived a plan, as far back as 1919, of a banking organization which would span the globe under the name of Barclays. It is a remarkable story with few parallels in the field of commercial banking enterprise. Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), later to be known as Barclays Bank DCO, came into being by the amalgamation in 1925 of three banks, the oldest of which was the Colonial Bank, established in 1836. A Banking Centenary, printed in 1938, outlined the histories of the three constituent banks and of the first years of the… Read More

(London: Barclays Bank International Limited, 1975). Royal 8vo; pictorial boards, with gilt lettering to spine and upper board; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxvii + (iii) + 339, incl. index; maps; several illustrations, incl. some in colour. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, with trace of edgewear, and faint spotting to reverse side; some spotting to edges. Very good condition. "This the story of one man's vision, the vision of Frederick Craufurd Goodenough, chairman of Barclays Bank Limited, who conceived a plan, as far back as 1919, of a banking organization which would span the globe under the name of Barclays. It is a remarkable story with few parallels in the field of commercial banking enterprise. Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), later to be known as Barclays Bank DCO, came into being by the amalgamation in 1925 of three banks, the oldest of which was the Colonial Bank, established in 1836. A Banking Centenary, printed in 1938, outlined the histories of the three… Read More

(London: Aurum Press, 2002) 1854108700. 8vo; original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. vi + 185; colour plates. Dustwrapper a bit rubbed and edgeworn, with a little loss to bottom edge of upper panel; trace of spotting to edges, occasional faint fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "Jon Beer writes regular columns for both the Daily Telegraph Weekend section and for Trout and Salmon, Britain's leading game fishing magazine. 'There are,' he writes, 'two sorts of book about trout fishing. One sort has a title like "How to Catch Very Big Trout". This is the other sort of trout fishing book.' In other words, it's a book about fly-fishing that doesn't take itself too seriously and will be rapturously welcomed by all those who fish for pleasure rather than for trophies. ... The great joy of Jon Beer's writing is that he can convey the full flavour of a day's fishing in a way that enables readers… Read More

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2023) 9781776192779. 232 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. x + 326; contemporary photographs; maps. Light wear to cover; faint damp-stain to two leaves. Very good condition. "Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn't get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity. Against the backdrop of Johannesburg in its golden age, a booming metropolis of opulence and chaos nicknamed the 'City of Gold' and the 'University of Crime', she had quietly gone about her sinister business while around her sensational crimes grabbed the headlines. There was the marauding Foster Gang, which left at least ten people dead; a dashing German hustler; a local Bonnie and Clyde; an innocent student walking at Zoo Lake park at the wrong time and a man who escaped death row to become one… Read More

(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1982) 0869782223. 8vo; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 198; monochrome photographic plates. A little shelf-wear to bottom edges of boards; dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed; old price penned on half-title. Very good condition. "This book is about aeroplanes and people. Carel Birkby has enjoyed the freedom of the cockpits of the historic aircraft in the National Museum of Military History and the South African Air Force Museum. He has used this privilege as a golden thread to link many strange stories of flying concerning South Africa at war and in peace." .

(Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1935). Crown 8vo; original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xii + 85 + (ii). Spine sunned and a little mottled; corners a bit bumped; slightest rippling to cloth of upper cover's bottom edge; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of fishmothing to endpapers; moderate foxing throughout. Good. 'Though he disclaimed that his "Dark Folk" poems (1935) were "translations or imitations of native verse", Slater managed to capture something of the feel and idiom of traditional Xhosa song, as in the lovely "Lament for a Dead Cow" ... and also to convey a sense of a vanishing rural culture, once again in terms of the imagery and conceptual world of the Xhosa, as in "Milking Kraal" ... ' - M. van Wyk Smith: Grounds of Contest. A Survey of South African English LIterature. .

(Leipzig, E. Bidder, 1882). ("Gedanken aus und nach der Schrift" S. 131) contempory cloth-back textured paper over boards, defective, pp. 72. Heavy browning and foxing. Poor. The Hermannsburg Missionary Society grew out of a religious revival in the region of Lüneberg during the mid-19th Century. The Society sent its first missionaries to East Africa but these were denied permission to preach in Gallaland and proceeded to Natal where they established a mission on the borders of Zululand. By the end of the century, 124 Hermannsburg missionaries had established themselves in South Africa. The item on offer here concerns itself with theological matters; it may be a critique of the Society and its approach - black letter script rather hard to read. .

(London, Chatto & Windus, 1959). Dustwrapper, lightly soiled, original blue cloth, pp. 320. ~ ~ 8 .

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1965). Squarish 8vo; original white boards, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 290; political cartoons in text. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; ownership inscription on front pastedown; light foxing to endpapers and edges. Good to very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Wat is dit wat vir Dawie die voorste politieke rubriekskrywer in die land maak? Waarom is sy rubriek belangrik vir Suid-Afrika? Waarom kyk ek en ander werktuiglik eerste na Dawie se rubriek wanneer ons ons Saterdag-Burger ontvang? Die antwoord is omvangryk. … " .

(Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 1992) 186825206X. 210 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. 128 (including index); sketch maps; notes on each walk. Lamination lifting very slightly from one corner of upper cover; small, faint spill mark to fore-edge. Very good condition. "Durban, South Africa's tropical tourist metropolis, offers more than popular beaches and lively nightlife. For the keen walker, nature lover and outdoor enthusiast, over 30 interesting walks beckon, ranging from a stroll along the city's historic waterfront to a bird-spotting ramble at Shongweni Dam and a nature trail through a fascinating mangrove forest. In addition, there is a nature trail around Pietermaritzburg and along the North and South coasts within easy reach of Durban." .

(Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 1992). 210 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. 128 (including index); sketch maps; notes on each walk. Very good condition. "Durban, South Africa's tropical tourist metropolis, offers more than popular beaches and lively nightlife. For the keen walker, nature lover and outdoor enthusiast, over 30 interesting walks beckon, ranging from a stroll along the city's historic waterfront to a bird-spotting ramble at Shongweni Dam and a nature trail through a fascinating mangrove forest. In addition, there is a nature trail around Pietermaritzburg and along the North and South coasts within easy reach of Durban." .

(Strand: the author, 1981) 0620054824. Cover title reads "Day of the Buffalo: The Laingsburg Flood". Large 8vo; original green rexine, lettered in gilt on upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 99; photographs; diagrams. An account of South Africa's greatest natural disaster, the flooding of the Karoo town of Laingsburg in 1981, with much on the individuals who lost their lives and those who were at the forefront of rescue attempts. .