basutoland von austin coates (9 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. 135 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is Free of Markings. Light foxing top fore-edge.

paperback. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Folding map in rear, illustrated. xiii + 135 pages, red cloth, d.w. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.

cloth. Zustand: Gut. 134 S.; Ill. + card. Ex.-Libr., Good condition. (without dust jacket). Slightly faded spine. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 530.

Zustand: Good. 1966. First Published. 134 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrative jacket over red cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Contains black and white plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Scuffing to front pastedown. Some creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Minor marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Some rubbing to surfaces.

Zustand: Good. 1966. First Edition. 134 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photos and maps. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Dust jacket taped to boards and protected by plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Oliver Caldecott (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Part of The Corona Library Series. Foreword to the Corona Library series of book titles by the t Hon. Sir Winston S. Churchill K.G., O.M., C.H., M.P. to the fore written at Chartwell, September 1956, with his facsimile signature. Jacket, endpapers and drawings by Oliver Caldecott. ***Profusely iIllustrated with seventeen pages of black and white photographic plates, as well as drawings in the text, and coloured endpapers. Folding map at end of volume by Directorate of Overseas Surveys. ***Fine in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Boards bright. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 20s net. Edges and corners of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and creased. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***224 mm x 148 mm. xiii prelims-pages plus 135 pages including index to rear. ***'The roof of Southern Africa - a small land of snow-capped mountains, flat-topped hills, treeless plains, and immensities of distance - Basutoland is one of the few countries in the world to be enveloped by another. Austin Coates recounts how it came into existence; how Moshesh, one of the greatest Africans of the nineteenth century, founded the Basotho nation, and how the people fared during times when migrating populations fought each other for existence and when Europeans first arrived. ***He sees the Basotho as a race for whom freedom and self-reliance are cardinal to self-existence - a musical people of intelligence and charm whose sense of colour and natural elegance are outstanding. He describes their lives, the apparent social loneliness of the educated, and the ancient traditions of the countryside. He finds Basutoland a land of insecurities: partly because it is enclosed by South Africa, and partly because of its basic agricultural and mineral poverty. Outlining the two main developments in the past century, the shift from a pagan to a Christian society, and the political transformation of a tribe into a modern state---.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper, complete with tipped-in map to rear, hard to find in such nice, bright collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***.

London: H.M.S.O. 1966. 8vo. Or.cl.d.w. X136pp. With num. full-page plates text-illusts. fold. map and illust. end-papers. Fine ex-libr. copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and Warmly inscribed by the author, Austin Coates: To David and Lady Trench former Government of Hong Kong 1964 - 1971. " Sir David and Lady Trench" dated, 1966. Frontispiece in color. Publication of 134 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo 135pp., col. frontis., b/w pls., text ills., fldg. map, index, Price-clipped o/w nice copy in beautiful bright dust jacket.