Victor Kock (116 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Small, light adhesive stain on end sheet, moderately bumped corners, otherwise Very Good condition in Good, but edge worn, dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN GOOD TO VERY GOOD,LIGHT FOXING,SMUDGE ON COVER PANEL,SOLID BINDING.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Text and images clean and intact. Pages tight. Gift inscription in pen and penciled price to front endpages. Dust Jacket with rubbing and wear overall. Edgewear and chips. Spine ends quite rubbed. 87 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kurt Peter Karfeld (illustrator). Some full page colour photographs depicting South Africa. A clean and sound book, although there is a gifting dedication on the half-title page, the ends papers have some marks were tape once held a protector and the dust jacket has clear tape repairs to the foot and head of the spine. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. ----- - - Green cloth with gilt lettering and cover design, large book- 11" x 9". 264 pages, with BILINGUAL-- English and Afrikans text--, and starting page 33- page 256 with one or more illustrations, both color and b/w, on every page. Index at end, and decorated endpapers-----VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight binding, clean book- - no dust jacket.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Photographs (Color) (illustrator). South Africa: Central News Agency. G/G. (1959). . Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 88 pp., Cover stained along bottom edges; ownership, some yellowing of margins, occas. foxing; dj frayed with small tears, blue pencil marks .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 106 illustrations by Daumier, Gavarni, Victor Adam, Charles Joseph Travies, Henri Emy, Henry Monnier. 100 in text, 6 full-page. Book circa 1890. ; 8vo; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 194 pages (complete). Jacket worn, have some small edge tears, creased, marked. Boards edge worn and marked. Tanning, foxing. Still in a very good condition, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Insect damage on the boards affecting the edges of a few pages.A few inscriptions.Foxing.Tanning.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book has one previous owner's signature on the half title page. Original green boards are shelf rubbed and marked. Spine has sunned. Binding is very good although it has been repaired. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Off White Cloth. Condition: Very Good Contents Near Fine. No Jacket. Kurt Peter Karfeld (illustrator). First Edition. Front Free Endpaper Missing.Please Email for further details. NO EXTRA POSTAGE BEYOND OUR STANDARD RATES! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited . Limited edition of 1500 copies, this is No. 868. Preface dated, 1 October 1953. Signed by the previous owner on the front free end paper page. Frontispiece in color. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Red to page edges. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and marks. Internally the pages are neat, clean and complete. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to. 28.5cm, 264p., frontis and c.450 plates and illustrations including 32 colour plates, mapped endpapers, index, in English & Afrikaans, green cloth, very good to fine (tgc) A primarily illustrated history of the Union of South Africa on the occasion of the three-hundredth anniversary (1652- 1952).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. No Date. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. Jacket edge worn, chipped, creased and marked. Boards edge worn, cocked and marked. Mild tanning and minor marks throughout the pages. However, it is in good condition, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The jacket is shelf worn with large tears and chips, as well as marks. The boards are edge rubbed with marks. The binding is secure. No ink inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. r*06/03/2024 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A near fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust jacket, of the first South African edition. The coarse green cloth binding is clean and shows only light wear, with strong plum lettering to the spine and front board. Everything is sound and tight, with square unbumped corners. The contents are clean and bright with only a small bookseller's notation to the front pastedown - no other markings of any kind. The lovely illustrated dust jacket is unclipped (12/6), and has light edgewear, with small losses to the spine top and a little rubbing to the corners. It is now protected in a removable mylar cover. From the blurb: "Here we learn of the trade in human flesh, of hair-raising mutinies on board the slave-ships and of stirring encounters with pirates. The author omits no aspect of the daily life of the slaves, of their adventures in desertion, their customs in mating, their naive and strange superstitions, how they gambled at dice or cock-fighting, and danced and feasted on bright moonlit nights".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A near fine copy in a good dust jacket. The orange cloth binding is clean and tight with bold brown lettering to the spine and front board and tight unbumped corners. This copy has been *INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR* on the title page. Other than that the contents are clean and bright with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The unclipped dust jacket (no flap price) is otherwise complete and presents very well on the front face. However, the spine of the jacket has been affected by water damage which has rendered it largely illegible. It is now protected in a removable mylar cover. From the blurb: "[This book] gives a fascinating insight into the life of the slave at the Cape in the 17th and 18th Centuries.The author's attention to detail and his ability to rouse and keep our interest, make this an attractive and valuable publication".

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and torn. mild tanning and soiling. boards are a bit damp marked and also soiled. poor copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket is worn, torn and chipped. tanning, soiling and marks. ownership inscription and sticker. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 240 Pages. The jacket is shelf rubbed and edge worn. There are closed tears and chips along the edges. It is protected in cellophane. The board are a little shelf rubbed. The corners are a little knocked. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*04/08/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback), limited to 1500 copies (this is copy number 1180). 8vo (26cm by 18cm), 116pp. Colour frontispiece, b&w plates, text illustrations. Original white cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. The binding is lightly rubbed, and there is some foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Royal octavo, pictorial dustwrapper, original cloth, endpaper facsimile map, pp. 116, frontispiece, plates. No 21 of edition of 1500 copies printed. Author's presentation inscription dated 22 XII '53. Dustwrapper sunned on spine and torn with a little loss; slight browning to endpapers. 'The fascinating history of the Cape before Van Riebeeck's time, . vividly told by the well-known Archivist, Victor de Kock. Here are the adventures of the first Europeans to round Southern Africa; the story of great voyages in little ships by men who faced unknown perils and hardships; of battles on sea and on land; of terrible shipwrecks; or heroism and cruelty; of monsters and mermaids . an enthralling narrative of the great struggle for the trade of the East.'.

hardcover. Condition: Good. dj split and heavily chipped and torn. pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,DUST JACKET IS VERY GOOD,MISSING TOP INCH FROM SPINE,IN CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTIVE SLEEVE,INSCRIBED BY MAYOR OF JOHANNESBURG,1961-62. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Signed by Author. 240 pages (complete). Jacket worn, sunned, chipped, marked. Boards edge worn and marked. Mild tanning, minor markings. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Hardcover. Book has light rubbing of spine ends and cover corner, part of nameplate crossed out with marker inside front cover, very slight browning of page edges. Dustwrapper has minor wear and tear of spine ends and panel edges, tape on top spine and back panel, tape bottom back panel, 1 inch tear top back panel.

HC. B&W and color ill. (illustrator). 244pp NO DUSTJACKET -- This book presents a photographic record of some of the things contributed by the various sections of the population to the cultural heritage of South Africa. good, dark blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn and a bit stained. tanning and marks. light soiling. well bound. fairly good copy.[S.K]. [S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The jacket is torn and marked.Light tanning.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The jacket is torn and marked.A little tanning.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.