Author: IRON RALPH (OLIVE SCHREINER)
Title: The Story of an African Farm
Description: London, Chapman and Hall. 1890, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. new edition, navy cloth titled gilt to cover and spine, rubbed and worn to spine ends, lower joint split at top third, paste down has contemporary booksellers label, school rubber stamp, small pocket and [VIth Book Club ] in ink, fep corner clipped, rear fep missing and rear hinge loosening. Bears the preface to the second (1883) edition. xv + 296 + 8pp unopened adverts at rear. incl glossary of Dutch and Colonial words. text is clean with nice impression to the paper, one page has loss to the fore edge margin from careless opening but still plenty of space before the text. closed edges uneven (untrimmed) and starting to fox. An early edition [third?] of the classic African colonial tale. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: South Africa Colonial Victorian Schreiner Ralph Iron Fiction Afrikaan Boer


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