Author: TROMP, Jan Nieuwoudt (Hartog)
Title: Brush Up Your Afrikaans. Knap U Engels Op. With Black and White Drawings by Steven Spurrier. General Editor W.G. Hartog.
Description: London, J. M. Dent, 1941. First edition. Decorated cloth, no dust-wrapper. Map to front endpaper, facts on South Africa to rear eps. viii+120 pp.. With engaging b/w illustrations throughout. In very good condition. Mild foxing to cloth edges. Owner name neatly inside. Humorous drawings and quaint phraseology depict a studiously uncritical portrayal of South Africa in 1941. The Brush Up series, first published in Rothermere's Daily Mail, is a fascinating reflection of certain British perspectives at the time. .

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