Search Results: Titles starting with O from Quagga Books

E. Jeffrey, 1812. Fold-out colour map with a few illustrations. Slightly damp damaged around the corners. Small name label on front paste-down. Edge-wear and rubbing to boards. Untrimmed pages. Some cockling to contents.

C J Zondagh. Text: Afrikaans. A gathering of social and cultural stories and personal memories of days gone by - slightly before and after 1930. Of farmers, pioneers, prisoners-of-war, school and school hostels, families, and communities in Namibia/South West AFrica. Ex libris stamp on verso of cover. 250 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Some light edge-wear and rubbing. Corners lightly turned up.

Konemann. Language: English, German and French. 640pp. Art of the three great cultural areas of Oceania - Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Illustrated throughout, many of the art works are from private collections or are photographed for the first time. Masks, jewelry, weapons, canoe prows, overmodelled skulls, tapa and major representations of the deities. This is a heavy item and will incur additional shipping. 1st Edition. Condition: Excellent. Dust jacket: Very good. Some light edge-wear. Binding: Black cloth bound hard cover with gilt lettering.

Roularta Art Books, 1994. A book devoted to Landuyt's jewels and sculptures. In Dutch, German, French and English. Colour illustrations on black paper throughout.

AA Balkema, 1980. A survey and description of old buildings in the Western Province. Extending from Cape Town to Calvinia in the North and to Graaf-Reinet, Colesberg and Uitenhage in the east. Covering substantially the 18th and 19th century styles: Cape Dutch, Cape Regency, Georgian and Victorian. Some light toning to edges of prelims. Foxing to top and fore-edges. Mild thumbing. 456 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. This is a heavy book and will incur additional shipping. 2nd Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Fair. Edge-wear to all extremities. Sunning to spine. Lacks header. 2 x 3cm closed tears to top edge. Tide mark to footer. Rubbing with some grubby marks. Binding: Hardcover. Some sunning to spine and top edge. Some mild edge-wear.

Maskew Miller, Limited, Circa 1927. Fascinating history of the South African country roads. Contents include: the Table Valley; Over the Cape Flats; Tulbagh Kloof, Hottentots Holland Pass, Bain's Kloof; Highway East to Swellendam; Northern Route t Piekenier's Kloof; Along the Oliphants River; To the Copper Mountain of the Amacquas; From Tulbagh Kloof to Karoo Poort and The Forgotten Highway which was once part of the great road to the north-east used by farmers across the Bokkeveld Karoo. 3 sketch maps, 5 fold-out maps; 21 b&w photographs. Bookplate on fixed end paper. Light foxing to prelims with a mild scatter of foxing to contents. Top and fore-edges foxed. 202 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Binding: Hardcover. Edge-wear mostly to spine edges with some splitting to the header area.

Self Published. Signed by the author and includes a relevant letter from him in his hand. Indepth research into old Penzance and Cornish history with chapters on smuggling, shipping, domestic conditions, markets and others. Some underlining. 12 illustrations. Some light foxing to front and rear prelims. Binding firm. 124 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. No dust jacket. Binding: Hardcover. Dark blue cloth boards with faded gilt lettering on spine. Corners and spine edges bumped and rounded.

Jonathan Ball. From the flyleaf: "First serious study of the physical history of the older towns of an area of the former 'Cape Colony' reaching norther as far as Calvinia and east to Grahamstown and Colesberg. Over 700 illustrations of early watercolours and pioneer photographs record their appearance up to the beginning of the 20th century. An invaluable reference book." With particular reference to their physical planning and historical townscape. 368 pages. Contents clean and binding tight. This is a heavy volume and will incur additional shipping. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Minor edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear.

Jonathan Ball. From the flyleaf: "First serious study of the physical history of the older towns of an area of the former 'Cape Colony' reaching north as far as Calvinia and east to Grahamstown and Colesberg. Over 700 illustrations of early watercolours and pioneer photographs record their appearance up to the beginning of the 20th century. An invaluable reference book." With particular reference to their physical planning and historical townscape. 368 pages. Contents clean and binding sound. This is a heavy volume and will incur additional shipping. 1st Edition. Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket: Very good. Some light edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear to the boards.

Human & Rousseau. Language: Afrikaans. 'n Oorsig van Olive Schreiner se eerste 25 jaar van haar lewe, ontwikkeling en werk voor haar vertrek na Engeland in 1881. 'n Buitengewone vrou wat in buitengewone omstandighede woon en werk. English: An overview of Olive Schreiner's first 25 years of her life, development and work prior to her departure for England in 1881. A few b&w photographs and illustrations. Some toning to prelims. 584 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good. Some edge-wear. Small nick to top edge of spine. Binding: Hardcover. Pink boards with edge-wear. Bumping to spine edges.

Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1991. English translation. An overview of Olive Schreiner's first 25 years of her life, development and work prior to her departure for England in 1881. An extraordinary woman living and working in exceptional circumstances.

David Philip. These letters give us a full and rounded picture of Olive Schreiner, covering a representative spectrum of her interests and her circle of friends and correspondents. Inscription on front fep. Mild foxing to end papers and top edge. 409 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good. Light edge-wear with foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover. Mild edge-wear.

David Philip. These letters give us a full and rounded picture of Olive Schreiner, covering a representative spectrum of her interests and her circle of friends and correspondents. Previous owner's name on rear fep. 409 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very Good.. Binding: Hardcover. Mild edge-wear. Gilt lettering to spine.

Maskew Miller Ltd. Contents: Oliver the Spy; Samuel Eusebius Hudson; Paddy Farrel; Inspector John King; William Layton Sammon ("Sam Sly"); Charles Barter; Peter Cormack Sutherland; and Natal Settlers from Charles Dicken's London. 165 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Toning to feps. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Full leather. Fine binding.

Camerapix Publishers International. The story of Mount Kenya. Full of colour photographs of the mountain, flora and fauna, etc. Contents are clean and firmly bound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good-. Some edge-wear, foxing to verso and sunning to spine area. Binding: Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine.

Howard Timmins. From the fly-leaf: ".. inspired by a scene in the beer garden of a cafe in Swakopmund in South West Africa." Covering a thousand miles of desert coastline and tales of strange characters. Previous owner's details on front fixed end paper. 249 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good-. Some edge-wear, rubbing and sunning. Binding: Hardcover. Light edge-wear.

Howard Timmins. From the fly-leaf: ".. inspired by a scene in the beer garden of a cafe in Swakopmund in South West Africa." Covering a thousand miles of desert coastline and tales of strange characters. 249 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Poor. Front flap is detached. Insect nibbling to extremities. Sunning to spine. Abrasions. Binding: Hardcover. Cream boards with red spine. Some light edge-wear.

C.Struik (Pty) Ltd, 1973. This book is divided into three parts. The Witwatersrand: a time and tailings, Shaftsinking and Mining Men. The first part is a collection of Goldblatt's photographs accompanied by an essay by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The second, photographs by Goldblatt with his description of the process of Shaftsinking. The third part is Goldblatt's images of men on the mines."I was drawn to photograph the mines not by any metaphor in which they might be seen but by their overwhelming presence in the life and landscape into which I grew. Photography offered both the justification and the medium for greatly extending experience and understandings begun in childhood." From his interview with Jeffery Ladd - Time Magazine. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. The black jacket show some signs of edgewear. Front endpaper professionally replaced. First edition Very good Very good Hardcover

Longman, London, 1853, first edition. First edition of this important work. Re-bound in a plain green cloth binding, with marbled endpapers and gilt titles to the spine. A piece of the original yellow end paper remains, with the following inscription: ' Samuel Ingall Eq. With the best regards of the author'. Ingall's bookplate also loosely inserted. Stamp and name to the half title. The re-binding of this book has left a slight wrinkle to the text block. x (ii), 412, (2)pp. Little (1810-94) was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and founded the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital of London. As a youth he was an apothecary's apprentice, surrendering his indentures at the age of 18 and entering medical school at the London Hospital. He was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1832. Little himself was a sufferer of a deformity in his left leg due to polio. This necessitated the use of a brace and obviously spurred his interest in finding a cure for such ailments. Little was one of the first to… Read More

Published to celebrate the centenary of the Gore A & P Association as a permanent record of the association's activities over its first 100 years. Mr G L Morrison of 'Rosedale', Waikaka Valley was commissioned to write this history together with J McArthur. Signature of a Mr Harvey, President from 1981 - 1982 on front fep. Foxing to prelims. Numerous photographs. 204 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear.