Foreword Paton (31 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 359 Pages. A tight straight book with a light crease in the front cover. Otherwise a book with flawless text pages. This novel is based on the life story of a black woman living in South Africa. Only her name Poppie Rachel Nongena is invented. The book is the story of a humble black woman who under the burden of South Africa's laws never gives up. The heroic nature of Poppie Nongena and the skill of the author make it an epic. No book like it has ever been written before. The most hated laws in South Africa are known as the pass laws that were enacted to control the movement of African people. When the Afrikaners and the British conquered the whole of the country, they set aside land for the conquered people. These were lands now known as Homelands but in fact they are not homelands at all. They are 13% of the land area and are set aside for 70% of the population. Even though many of these people live now in the white cities, the Homelands are overcrowded, and in many parts eroded and barren. Many of their men are away in the cities of Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria, the places where black men can sell their labour. They are South Africa's migrant labourers, and they can be sent back to the Homelands any time it suits the authorities. The fact is the man's labour is wanted in the industries of the cities, but his wife and children are not. They are left behind in the Homelands and only have money if their husband and father is faithful. Sometimes because the man and his wife and children long for one another the wife breaks the law and goes to visit the husband in the city. This is the story of Poppie Nongena when she marries a migrant worker her whole life changes. In 1976 the black children rise up in rebellion and burn schools and stone cars and this story is told in the chapter titled the Revolt of the Children. The book is the story of a very courageous woman and her struggle to live under the cruelty of the law. …

109p., foreword, very good first trade paper wraps published simultaneously with the hardbound, signed by the poet. Cover illustration by Maria Philpotts.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 16pp lines pamphlet. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing. Author's first book, written after two years exploring Africa after he finished grad school at Harvard. "His response to all things African was real & urgent, & his poetry is both dramatic & reflective as he distills the seething mood that is Africa today." A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1969, this hardcover octavo is bound in half green/half pumpkin-colored cloth over boards lettered in bright red to spine. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with a hint of tanning, but completely unmarked. A sprinkling of foxing across top outer page edges. The unclipped DJ is also Near Fine: colorful with very mild chipping to both ends of spine, light surface soiling; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 334 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear to edges, and tiny chip to top edge of rear panel. Approx. 1 1/2" closed tear from top edge of front panel. Illust. w/ b/w figures. Contents very nice.…

PAPERBACK. Condition: Good. 1st edition thus. 39pp. 12mo in stapled wraps. Light soiling and wear to wraps, light vertical crease to wraps and throughout, ink stamp on Foreword page, else interior unmarked. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 139.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Tight unmarked book in bright covers.; 6 X 0.75 X 9.25 inches; 290 pages. Paton, Bruce (illustrator).

Wongar, B. with a foreword by Alan Paton., Little, Brown & Co., 1978, c1978, 1st Edition, cloth (hard cover), PO's bookplate on ffep o/w vg+ with spine-faded dj, 120 pp with glossary, small 8vo, "Stories comprise a haunting lament for the aborigines' vanishing life and land in the outback".

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Advance Review Copy. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. v, 111pp., glossary. Lightly age toned and spotted text block. Offset and foxing to endpapers else clean and bright. Slightly rubbed Dustjacket.(BH) 1/2026.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Staplebound paperback (16 pages) in good condition. Covers are scuffed and foxed. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed, with a crease and small tear to the front upper corner. Occasional spots of foxing on some of the pages which are otherwise clear, and binding is sound. LW. Used.…

Octavo, hardcover, pages age-toned elsw VG in good olive green pictorial dj. Sepia tone drawings on endpapers. 178pp. including index. 64 illustrations; 2 double-sided color plates, Melbourne, a relatively new city, has been the scene of impressive and dramatic growth and achievement of any city in the world. Founded in 1835 it is less than 200 years old. Book.…

Square super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Condition: Very Good. 1960. Paperback. " The best publisher alive or dead". C P Snow. Original printed wrappers.First edition. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1960. Paperback. " The best publisher alive or dead". C P Snow. Original printed wrappers.First edition. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on title page. First American Edition. Black cloth spine and orange papered boards with gilt facsimile of the author's signature on the front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 12 pages of photographs, two maps, index. Dust jacket is modestly worn at spine ends and lightly at corners; not price clipped ($6.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. Laid-in is an unused car-sticker issued by the Natal Parks Game & Fish Preservation Board. 254 pages. Ian Player's account of his experiences in South Africa and the efforts to save the white rhino. Inscribed to John B. Crowell, Jr. (b. 1930), who was then President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, essentially being the head of the US Forest Service. Crowell was invited on a wilderness ''trail'' in South Africa with Ian Player and, in 1982, the two men went, alone, into the iMfolozi wilderness for four days. Crowell was later to assist Player in getting John Block, the Secretary of Agriculture, to be a keynote speaker at the WILD Foundation's 3rd World Wilderness Congress (October 1983). ''Inscribed with my very best - / warm wishes for John Crowell, / from, / Ian Player / 24th July 1983''. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback copy; dust wrapper somewhat dust-toned and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Previous owners inscription on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside page is now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book edges and corners. Dust jacket is in fair condition with tears to top edge. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective covering. Body text and binding are still very good. Richard Lane was one of three brothers who founded Penguin Books in 1935. After sailing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard began work as a boy migrant - a farm apprentice living in rural South Australia as part of the 'Barwell Boys' scheme. Richard's diaries capture his life vividly and his loves; the characters he met; the land he worked; the families he depended on; and his coming of age in a new land. A remarkable social record and one of the best first-hand accounts of the child migrant experience, the diaries also capture the ideas and the entrepreneurship that led to the founding of the twentieth century's most famous publishing house.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (First Published 1953). 71 (unless I miscounted) Figures and Diagrams (Illustrations). You can see in the photographs just how terrific the covers of this nearly 64-year-old book look. They are a very nice red color. There isn't any soiling. The gilt lettering on the spine is very bright and unworn. The unseen edges also show no wear at all. The only imperfections are 1) two smooth scratches on the front that can be seen or not seen depending upon how the light hits the book, and 2) a crease at the bottom of the front just above the right corner. That crease is limited to the cover, doesn't affect any of the interior. The actual four corners of the book also show no wear. The book is well bound, there aren't any tears 's to be found, no page is loose. The pages are also exceptionally clean, no stains anywhere. No spotting. There aren't any markings in the book. No attachments. I didn't see any creases or dogeared corners. The next to last page of the index has a little bit of crinkling in the middle, absolutely not affecting one's ability to read. The last page of the index is a little too tightly bound to the rear end paper, causing a little bit of crinkling between the two, but again absolutely not affecting the ability to read the print. Not too many dust jackets look this good after so many years. Take a look at the first three photographs. There is only tiny bit of edge wear, the top spine end has a wrinkle. The dust jacket has the same crease that the book has right above the front bottom right-hand corner. There's a speck of loss at the rear bottom edge adjacent to the middle edge (third photo). The jacket is quite clean, just a light amount of handling soiling. The flaps are in excellent shape. The bottom of the front flap is clipped. However the price is at the bottom of the rear flap which is not clipped. Next to the clipped area there is an Associated Book Publishers Ltd price sticker with a price in pounds. The dust jacket will be fitted with a protective cover. This is by far the least expensive of the copies of this book for sale that are in decent or better condition.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 16pp Foreword by Alan Paton.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Several contributors. With colour frontispiece. Illustrated in b&w. Very Good hardcover copy. No dustjacket. Slight handling wear, mild toning to endpapers, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. x + 196pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Language Edition. Xxiii, 285 Pp. Beige Cloth. First Printing Of This First English Language Edition. Near Fine Book, No Damage, Small Owner's Name Stsmp. Dust Jacket Priced $5.00, With Some Edge Wear, Minute Losses At Corners.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Nineteen, very good or better condition booklets in stapled light card covers. Internally, fine and free of inscriptions; well illustrated.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps are shelf rubbed.Internally clean.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 334 pp, front end paper inscribed by Nahas to Gino del Duca, some small tears to dj. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original emerald green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [viii] 56 printed pages of text + 10 pages of horse-related illustrated period advertisements. D. Lathbury (Nairobi) indigo bookstall stamp to the front free end paper, light foxing to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with the front cover showing cover illustration by Maurice Tulloch of sahib smoking a pipe in helmet, jodhpurs and boots, small piece of paper missing to the bottom right hand corner of the front cover, small chips to the spine ends, not price clipped 5/50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. EQUINE & EQUESTRIANISM.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.