Van Avond Jan (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1929. First Edition. 68 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Condition: Fair. 1929. First Edition. 67 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Binding remains firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good copy in the publisher's original binding of blue cloth. The gilt lettering to the spine is well-faded. The pasted down descriptive label to the front board is in good condition and remains fully legible. The binding is clean and tight, with only minor wear. Everything remains square and tight. Inside there is a neatly inked owner's inscription to the front pastedown, but otherwise there are no other markings of any kind. Slight overall age-toning to the pages. A very presentable copy overall.

First Edition: Hardback, blue bds., gold titles, 130 x 185 mm., 250 g., 68 pp., bookplate on pdfep., light shelf wear, no dw., VG copy.

A good copy of the First Edition in original publishers cloth.8vo.xii.85pp plus inserted advertisement leaf for "DROUGHT A South African Parable" by the same author writing as Jan van Avond.The poets Roy Campbell and Anthony Delius were great supporters of Slater, claiming him as a " Pioneer of "Indiginous English Poetry" and that "with the publication of Karroo and other poems in 1924 he began to distil the South African scene into imagery which prepared the field for indigenous English verse.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. The dust jacket is slightly shelf rubbed and edge worn with various short tears. It will however, still look good in cellophane though. The boards show some age related marks. The pages are lightly tanned, but the text is still crisp and clear. The blocks are deckle edged. Internally clean and tightly bound. Complete with 64 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.