Bates, Robert H.

Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa. African Studies Series 38.

Cambridge University Press 1983. Chocolate cloth boards. 178pp 8vo. Ownership label ffep. VG condition in dustwrapper (general wear, no major loss, chips, or tears). contents unmarked. ISBN: 052124563X Recognising the central importance of rural Africa this addresses the classic questions in African studies. What were the sources of order in pre-colonial societies without states? What were the origins of traditional states in Africa? In the colonial period what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural development? What were the issues driving the peasant rebellions that ended colonial rule? Since independence, what has been the fate of the African peasantry? What has been the content of agricultural policies adopted by post-colonial governments in Africa, and how can these policies be accounted for?

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Book number: 24393

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Bath, Gareth. & De Wet, Jan.

Sheep and Goat Diseases.

Pfizer Animal Health, South African Veterinary Association. Tafelberg. Cape Town 2000 1st edition. Printed boards. 205pp illustrated colour. Large 4to 0.9kg. Damp damage to lower right corner, this has not affected the text and the book is completely readable. Thus a Good copy only, but overall a clean and externally attractive copy. ISBN: 9780624039242 More than 500 colour photographs, illustrations, and diagrams. A comprehensive description and explanation of nearly all infectious diseases, metabolic problems, internal and external parasites, plant and other poisons, genetic diseases, and other conditions found in sheep and goats. Updated from the original 'Kleinveesiektes'.

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Book number: 28715

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Battiss, Walter.

Limpopo.

J.L. van Schaik. Pretoria 1965 stated 1st edition. Stone buckram boards with printed figure. 4to 1.3kg. A near Fine copy in G-VG laminated dustwrapper (worn at spine ends and adjacent thereto but no major loss or tears, lamination folded over along top and bottom edges). Unmarked contents. Inscribed by Walter Battiss with his usual graphic in ink. Battiss was Professor of Art at UNISA at the time of publication. From his camp on the Limpopo River he conceived this book looking south to the Karoo of his birth and youth, and north to the islands of Zanzibar, Lamu, Manda and Pate which he had visited as an adult.

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Book number: 27365

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Baudert, F.R. (Tr). & Keegan, Timothy (Ed).

Moravians in the Eastern Cape, 1828-1928. Four Accounts of Moravian Mission Work on the Eastern Cape Frontier.

VRS Second Series Vol.35. Van Riebeeck Society 2004. Gilt titles on chocolate cloth boards. 308pp. tipped-in coloured frontis. illustrated b/w plates. map. No inscriptions. 4 square corners. a near-Fine copy in dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780958452229 Comprises the following 4 accounts: Ernst van Calker, A Century Of Moravian Mission Work In The Eastern Cape Colony And Transkei 1828-1928. Paul Moths, Heinrich Meyer - A Stalwart Of The Mission Field. Hermann Gustav Schneider, Seeking Refuge. Meta Spear, Life In Africa 50 Years Ago.

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Book number: 27524

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Baumgartner, Ted A. & Jackson,Andrew S.

Measurement for Evaluation. In Physical Education and Exercise Science, Sixth Edition.

McGraw-Hill, 1999. 6th edition. Printed boards, 514pp 0.9kg. No inscriptions, unmarked, VG condition. ISBN: 0697294846

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Book number: 13362

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Baxter, Marion.

Bitter Aloes. Stories from the Eastern Cape.

Footprint Press 2018. 167pp paperback. Mint condition. ISBN: 9780639932613 You would think not much ever happens in the sleepy towns and dusty pineapple valleys of South Africa's Eastern Cape, yet look deeper. On shade-dappled farmhouse porches and in the back rooms of rented settler-era cottages, stories unfold every day. Stories of loss, love, obsession ... and fish. These stories were circulated privately prior to Author's death in 2002 (see Jeanette Eve's 'A Literary Guide To The Eastern Cape').

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Book number: 28682

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Baxter, Marion.

Bitter Aloes. Stories from the Eastern Cape.

Footprint Press 2018. 167pp paperback. Mint condition. ISBN: 9780639932613 You would think not much ever happens in the sleepy towns and dusty pineapple valleys of South Africa's Eastern Cape, yet look deeper. On shade-dappled farmhouse porches and in the back rooms of rented settler-era cottages, stories unfold every day. Stories of loss, love, obsession ... and fish. These stories were circulated privately prior to Author's death in 2002 (see Jeanette Eve's 'A Literary Guide To The Eastern Cape').

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Book number: 28681

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Baxter, Marion.

The Worm Turns. More Short Stories - a Sequel to Bitter Aloes.

Footprint Press 2019. Note. the isbn given was also given to the earlier publication of David Hilton-Barber's 'Howard Timmins And His Proteges'. Printed wraps. 224pp. A Mint unread copy. ISBN: 9780639932668 Author's second volume of short stories.

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Book number: 28683

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Baxter, Marion.

The Worm Turns. More Short Stories - a Sequel to Bitter Aloes.

Footprint Press 2019. Note. the isbn given was also given to the earlier publication of David Hilton-Barber's 'Howard Timmins And His Proteges'. Printed wraps. 224pp. A Mint unread copy. ISBN: 9780639932668 Author's second volume of short stories.

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Beau. (Ed. Clauss Kiessling). (Fwd. Clive Barker).

Beaumen.

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 2004. Softcover. unnumbered. colour illustrated 4to . 0.4kg. Front wrap heavily creased lower corner, hence a Good copy only. contents unmarked. ISBN: 3861876493 Homoerotic art. uncommon item, first in the series.

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Book number: 27016

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Beavon, Keith.

Johannesburg. The Making and Shaping of a City.

University of South Africa Press (UNISA) 2004. Printed wraps. 373pp illustrated maps, tables, etc. 0.6kg. No inscriptions. A Fine copy. ISBN: 9781868883035 Inscribed title page by Author Sep. 2009. Analyses the unfolding urban geography of the city from its establishment as a mining camp to present times. Concludes that any push to become a true world-class city will be restricted by the division of the city into the wealthy north and the impoverished south, as well as its the failure to provide an effective modern bus transit system in the face of opposition from the entrenched taxi industry.

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Book number: 28389

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Bee, A.G.

Keeper of the Highway. The Story of Samuel Cowley.

Shuter & Shooter. Pietermaritzburg 1942 stated 1st edition. Bright blue cloth boards. .308pp 8vo. Spine lean. ff tanned. a sound clean reading copy in worn dustwrapper (well tanned). Novelised biography of Samuel Crowley, "... a South African policeman of many adventures in the rough towns of days gone by and in the cities of today".

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Book number: 24504

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Beinart, William.

Twentieth Century South Africa.

Oxford University Press 2001 2nd edition. 414pp paperback. A very clean copy, VG+ condition. ISBN: 9780192893185 A very readable account. The new edition includes much additional material over earlier editions.

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Book number: 27196

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Belcher. Charles Frederic.

The Birds of Nyasaland. Being a Classified List of the Species . . .

The Technical Press.1930 1st edition. Gilt title on light blue cloth boards. 356pp illustrated folding map as frontis. 8vo 0.7kg. Externally worn, but a sound clean copy. Foxing to preliminary pages else excellent contents and a very clean original map. "... Recorded For The Nyasaland Protectorate Up To The Year 1930, With Brief Descriptions And Field Notes, And A Map".

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Book number: 28668

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Bell, W.H. Somerset.

Bygone Days. Being the Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, with Some Account of the Jameson Raid and Its Consequences.

H.F. & G. Witherby, London 1st Edition 1933. Blue gilt boards, 367pp. 8vo 0.7kg. Various ownership signatures. stamps, & dates. ffep excised. a Good clean copy in Poor dustwrapper (50% loss to repaired spine, covered protective film. has kept book clean). Personal reminiscences from author's arrival at Port Elizabeth in 1869 until after the Anglo-Boer war. Deals with such issues as railway development in the Cape Colony, the Uitlander grievances, the Johannesburg plot and the Jameson Raid, the Reform Committee, the Anglo-Boer war proper, Louis Botha, and the system of concessions and monopolies granted by the Transvaal government prior to the Anglo-Boer war.

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Book number: 27507

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