Author: Battiss, Walter.
Title: Limpopo.
Description: J.L. van Schaik. Pretoria 1965 stated 1st edition. Stone buckram boards with printed figure. illustrated colour plates, b/w drawings and photographs. 4to. 310mm x 240mm x 25mm. 1.3kg. A near-Fine copy in G-VG laminated dustwrapper (worn at spine ends and adjacent thereto but no major loss or tears. The lamination is folded over the wear along top and bottom edges). Despite the lesser dustwrapper this has a good table appearance. Inscribed by Walter Battiss to Jan Mostert 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.

Keywords: south southern africa african art walter battiss signed inscribed manda island lamu takwa pate gedi mombasa bajun islands malindi karoo karroo


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