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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover with black cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. Bright pink DJ with white text. Color worn away at hinges and along edges, small chips missing from corners of spine and covers. No date on title page. Copyright page states that this is the 1967 reprint of the 1931 original publication. xv + 198 pages. Includes note on pronunciation of African names by Dr. A. Werner and introduction by Henry Newbolt. About four instances of marginalia in pen from the former owner, neat and unobtrusive. Faint remnants of a stamp reading "1 F $5.50" in corner of front free endpaper. Pages bright. Binding loosening at crown of spine but strong at foot and uncracked. Please email us with questions or to request photos.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sambrook, Russell (cover); Garland, C. George; Thorne, Diane; Clymer, John F.; Smith, Ralph C. (illustrator). First Edition. 44 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of clown by Russell Sambrook; News briefs include - the Roosevelt telegram and its sequel, the 'Halt-Hitler' bloc, Enigmatic Russia, the Perplexities of Poland, French 'Rightists', and British Conscription; Davis Cup Review - Tennis article with photos of Adrian Quist, Jack Bromwich, Gene Mako, and Bobby Riggs; I Visit Those Other Canada's - photo-illustrated article of a trip to Scandinavia; Did I Remember to Tell You I Adore You? (short story); Vrechan, a Man's Dog (short story); Girl Alone (short story); The Eyes of the Navy - photo-illustrated article on Britain's Naval Air Arm; If I Die Before I Wake (short story); Palmolive Soap ad includes illustration of the Dionne Quints; Hollywood news and photo of Richard Carlson; Lux soap ad includes photos of Barbara Stanwyck; Five photos from film "The Wizard of Oz"; Get Ready for the Tennis Season; Your Place in the Sun - the sun and your skin; The Bride, The Food and the Man - cooking advice; Photo of Fanny Brice in Maxwell House coffee ad; Pond's Cold Cream ad features two photos of the Lady Ursula Stewart and the Lady Betty Bourke; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Heisley, George D.; Dutton, A.H. (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Indirection (poem); The E.L. McLeod Collection of Indian Baskets - photo-illustrated article on the most noted collection of the Indians it represents in the world; Date Growing on the Colorado River - photo-illustrated article on the Fan Palm which has been growing profusely in the canyons and foothills of the mountains that surround the Colorado Desert in Southern California for centuries; Summer Climate of the California Mediterranean - article with several wonderful photos including San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado and the beach Tent City at Coronado; The Diver (verses); San Pedro Harbor - excellent photo-illustrated article on a California commercial wonder; The Historic Elements of California Literature (2nd article in a series); Centrifugality; The Spontaniety of God's Great Out-of-Doors - photo-illustrated article on some of nature's springtime plant wonders in California; The Peace Forum; Quit Your Worrying; The Washwoman's Vengeance; In the Editor's Den; Under the Study Lamp; Hemet - In the Valley of a Thousand Hills - photo-illustrated article focusing on W.F. Whittier and his local holdings. [4 ads], 68, [8 ads] pp. Lacking back cover. Very faint library stamps to front cover. Contents unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Fascinating content with black and white photos. ; Illustrator; Sm 4to.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first English language edition of this great Sesotho novel, a fictionalised account of the rise and fall of the Zulu Emperor Shaka. The first English language edition of this work, following the 1925 true first, which was written in Sesotho.In the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.'Chaka' is the third and final novel written by Thomas Mofolo, a mythical retelling of the rise and fall of the Zulu Emperor king Shaka. The Zulu conqueror built a mighty empire during the first quarter of the nineteenth century.Mofolo wrote the work in three years between 1907 to 1910, researching the work by travelling to the province of Natal. He is considered to be the greatest Basotho author, his other two novels being 'Moeti oa Bochabela', ('The Traveler of the East'), and 'Pitseng'.Translated into English by F. H. Dutton. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with a few minor marks to the boards. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spots to the fore edge and endpapers. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with restoration by a prior owner, including to the subtitle to the front wrap. Some light handling marks and spots to the wraps, and a little sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Very Good. book.