Details: By Phyllis Savory
Illustrated by Sylvia Baxter. Published by Howard Timmins, 1962, Cape Town.
Citadel Press, Cape Town.
Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket. With Price R(Rand)1.50 intact.
Scarce collectors item.
Title: Matabele Fireside Tales
Author:Phyllis Savory
Price: US$125.00
Details:Leo Politi
Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1964 scarce First edition.
Signed and inscribed by Leo Politi. With an original drawing by Politi on the front end
page. Publishers original illustrated cloth. With dust jacket with same image as publishers
boards. Jacket is price clipped.
In very good condition. Collector’s item.
US$525.00
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Dier Treblig Nhoj, PICKWICKIANS ABROAD. With illustrations by the Author.
Published by the International Insitute of China, 1913 (1989), Inscribed: To Ida Gregory: -a much traveled copy of an old “first edition†- with compliments of the author-remembering many kindnesses, John Gilbert Reid, (Dier Treblig Nhoj) Santa Cruz,
California, August 30, 1946. . 4to 7 1/2″ x 10″, .†Very good in decorative grey-green leatherette with black lettering and picture of Chinese pagoda on a hill on front. In very good scarce jacket. Both FEPs discolored, else interior pages quite clean, hinge tight, a very sound copy of an old-timey children’s book, “a continuation-drama of comedy and tragedy, every scene of which has been carefully acted out by the Pickwick Club, now
numbering more than a hundred mannikins, many of whom begun life at the Siccawei Orphanage near Shanghai. That the result may amuse other children as much as it has the
author is the sincere wish ..†One color & several B/W illustrations by the author. 286pp
$175.00
