Uys Krige (231 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. Early edition. A good paperback first edition reading copy. Rubbing to spine. A corner each of the front and back cover is clipped. Contents are lightly tanned but unmarked.

Paper Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First. Penguin Poets D109 331pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book/dust jacket. Pages are clean and tight.Minimal evidence of exlibrary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Text is clean cover shows light normal wear. Dust jacket shows some edgewear and light sunning to spine. States 4th Edition 1971. ; 149 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Pocket-size paperback. Ink marks on first page, else text clean; binding tight; 1" crease to front cover, else minor wear to covers. 331 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. blue c w/gilt spine titles; 214 clean, unmarked pages+catalogue.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Poems from over 35 poets writing in English, about 15 poets translated from the Afrikaans, and 75 pages of Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Hottentot, and Bushman poetry, many from unknown poets. Black color of wraps is rubbed off along the folds of the spine and along edges, light wear at outer corners. Inside is tight and clean. 331 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fifth Impression. Crisp and clean except for moderate foxing along the head edges of page block and hard cover, intruding slightly into upper margins of title and dedication pages; no owners' marks; hard cover shows some edgewear at corners and heel edges, jacket some shallow creasing at spine ends, four small water droplet spots at the lower spine, and modest fading along the spine as well as a patch of little scratches at the upper right rear, otherwise attractive and well-kept.

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good.

Stories and a play, from South Africa. -- First Edition, First Printing in U.S. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good (cover and edges lightly soiled) with very good dust jacket (light edgewear).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 142 pages, a near fine hardback, publisher's original blue binding with black lettering to the spine and pictorial front & back covers [0623006510]. Completely clean - appears as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. ## Fine book is clean, tight, unclipped and unmarked. Dust jacket is Near Fine with two closed tears along top edge, wear to spine. Bright orange endpapers, text block lightly toned. 15 short essays and stories by the South African writer. No marks in or on book. NOT A REMAINDER. 149 pages. Dust jacket protected in a new crystal clear MYLAR cover. Bubble wrapped and custom boxed for standard shipping. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full blue cloth with blindstamped decoration and gilt lettering to spine, 10" x 6-1/4", 214 pp. Small tear to bottom of rear joint, light edgewear and toning to jacket. Writings from the author best known for "The Story of an African Farm.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The wraps are slightly shelf rubbed.Internally clean.Tightly bound.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards (HB) in decorative illustrated cover. In very good+ condition. Browning to inner covers and one page. Signed on the title page as well as the first page proclaiming himself an admirer of American literature, poetry, prose and plays. Dated 1963, Capetown. This being the first collection of his one-act plays to appear in English, and includes The Arrest, Fuente Sagrada and All Roads Lead to Rome. 128 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Books of plays.

VERY GOOD condition.

Condition: Good. 1962. 142 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Flat signed by the Editor. Inscription and tippex to front endpaper. 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. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Loss to spine ends.

Paperback (G+) scruffy; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

8vo; original purple cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 223. Spine gilt dull; moderate foxing throughout. Good. "A collection of stories The Dream and the Desert (1953) contains a semi-autobiographical study, 'The Dream', of the effect on a young Afrikaans boy of the death in infancy of his brother." - Adey, et al: Companion to South African English Literature, pp. 116-117.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 223 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; English fiction; 20th century. Drama. English literature; 20th century. English literature. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine in a very good, unclipped, dust jacket. The plum cloth binding is clean and bright with strong gilt title lettering, and virtually no wear. The binding is solid with no weakness or cracking to the hinges. The contents are clean and tight, with no ownership inscriptions or any other markings. Laid in at page 156/7 is a substantial folded press cutting from the Cape Times of August 11, 1987, pertaining to Krige's death, which has browned the facing pages. The dust jacket is clean, and unclipped, showing only slight wear to the edges and spine ends. It has been neatly and invisibly reinforced from behind and is now protected in a removable mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No edition stated. Publication of 119 pages. Previous owners name scratched out in black ink on the front inner board and last blank page. Both the flaps remaining from the dust jacket are tipped in on the third and fourth blank pages. Ex-library, couple of stamp marks and a library packet rear of the book. There is foxing and old tape residue marks on the endpapers. There are minor marks on the top edge of the block of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. University library withdrawl with bright unmarked text, in blue cloth with blindstamped designed to front board and gilt spine titles; 214 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good blue boards.white text on front cover and spine in DJ with only slight wear. Orange inside covers. No inscriptions. Tales of the authors experiences in South Africa. (B74).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd impression . 2nd impression, 1962. Revised and Corrected. Publication of 142 pages. The dust jacket is a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good copy in the original publisher's cream wraps with blue lettering the the spine and front face. The wrappers are a little grubby and rubbed, but overall in very good condition. The binding is strong, square and tight. Inside the contents are undamaged with no ownership inscriptions or markings, although there is light foxing at several points in the text, the heaviest being towards the prelims. Contains three plays by Krige: 'Die Wit Muur', 'Die Skaapwagters van Bethlehem', and 'Die Arrestasie'. Text in Afrikaans.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed twice by artist, and once by author! This copy is signed and dated (7/6/85) by both author and artist on half title; also signed again by artist on title page. A very good- copy in original brown coated boards with some light bumping and wear.B/w Illustrations.