mofolo thomas dutton (2 Ergebnisse)

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.

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.