Bjorn, Kristen.

Stallions.

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 2005. Printed boards. colour illustrations. 4to. 290mm x 220mm. 1.0kg. Boards lightly rubbed hence a near Fine copy. ISBN: 9783861876823 Over 100 mostly full-page colour images by British-born photographer.

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Book number: 28062

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Black, Jonathan.

Idols.

Bruno Gmunder. Berlin 1998. Printed boards. illustrated 109 colour images. 190mm x 150mm. 0.5kg. No inscriptions, 4 square corners. a Fine copy. ISBN: 9783861871279 Author's first publication in print.

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Book number: 27984

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Blackburn, Frank.

Sugar- Cane.

Tropical Agriculture Series. Longman , London 1984 1st edition. Black cloth boards. 414pp illustrated 8vo. 0.9kg. No inscription. VG+ condition in VG dustwrapper (creased at head of spine, else no chips, loss, or tears). ISBN: 9780582460287 A detailed treatise, covering the African sugar producing areas, covering every aspect of the production of sugar from cane including botany and breeding, cultivation control of weeds pests and diseases, to harvesting and factory processing. Practical aspects of estate management are also covered.

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Book number: 27356

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Blacklaws, Troy.

Karoo Boy.

Double Storey. Cape Town 2004. First edition. 196pp paperback. No inscriptions. a Fine unread copy. ISBN: 9781919930251 A story of boyhood against the backdrop of conflict in the 1970s. Author's first novel.

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Book number: 25952

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Bladen, Dick.

Alive to Tell the Tale.

Self 2004. 128pp paperback. A VG copy. Signed by author on title page. Hijacked by thieves as his Southwell farm, the 73-year old author drove off the road at high speed to foil his attackers - living to tell the tale.

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Book number: 28999

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Blair, Peter Hunter.

Anglo-Saxon England.

Folio Society. London 1997. (After Cambridge University Press 1995, Sixth printing 2001. Gilt dec blue buckram boards. 364pp illustrated colour and b/w plates. Gilt dec blue slipcase (no dustwrapper issued). 8vo 1.3kg. As new in VG original slip-case (a little dusty) else an excellent copy. Follows the text of the 1995 CUP edition with minor emendations. First published as 'An Introduction' To Anglo-Saxon Englanf 1956.

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Book number: 28898

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Blaisdell, Anne.

Felony Report.

Victor Gollancz. London 1985. 1st edition. Red cloth boards. 183pp 8vo 0.4kg Bookplate front pastedown, eps and edges spotted else contents excellent, minor spine lean hence a G+ copy in G-VG Gollancz yellow dustwrapper (no chips, tears, or loss). ISBN: 0575035811

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Book number: 28707

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Blennerhassett, Rose. & Sleeman, Lucy.

Adventures in Mashonaland. By Two Hospital Nurses.

Rhodesiana Reprint Library (Gold Series) Volume Eight (8). Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1969. Facsimile of the Macmillan 1893 Edition with additions and illustrations. Gilt on green cloth boards. xii + 340pp. illustrated b/w photos. map. Ownership inscription ffep. generally VG in Good only d/w (worn, has stuck to rear board at some time, internally shows damp stains). Actually sound and clean, just not the most pristine. Three intrepid nurses set up a mission hospital in Mashonaland in 1891. They are commemorated in the Rhodesian National Tapestry, which forms the design shown on the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 14571

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Bleszynski, Nick,

Shoot Straight, You Bastards! the Truth Behind the Killing of 'breaker' Morant.

Random House, Australia 2002 stated 1st edition. 386pp large format illustrated paperback. 0.7kg. An as-new unread copy. ISBN: 9781740510813 A twenty-first century look at the court martial and subsequent execution by firing squad of Lieutenants Harry Morant and Peter Handcock on the altar of colonial political expediency at the end of the Boer War. This study looks closely at the identity and character of Morant

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Bluebooks.

Beach Boys.

Bluebooks 2004. Flexible printed wraps. unnumbered. illustrated colour and b/w. 215mm x 155mm. 0.4kg. No inscriptions. Rear lightly rubbed, a near Fine copy. ISBN: 9780975088197 Tanned muscle on or near the beach, in the water, on the sand.

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Blunt, David Enderby.

Elephant.

Neville Spearman. London 1971 1st edition thus. A facsimile reprint of the 1933 edition with the original illustrations but strangely without the original title page. Gilt on red cloth boards. 260pp illustrated 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. has been bumped at head of spine. thus G-VG condition in Good dustwrapper (rubbed, worn especially at head & tail of spine. price-clipped). ISBN: 9780854352500 "..., in May 1925 I was offered the appointment of Cultivation Protector in the Elephant Control Scheme section of the Game Preservation Department of Tanganyika ... During my first year as a Cultivation Protector - that is during seven months' actual hunting - I shot ninety elephants. Each year the area under my control was extended and the number of armed Native scouts increased, until the elephant learned to behave themselves ...".

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Bobbins, Godfrey.

The Poems of Godfrey Bobbins and "an Ennead of Verse Festivals in the Eastern Cape".

Self published. Grahamstown (1969). Gilt on blue cloth boards. 55 + 32pp. 8vo. Boards lightly spotted, G+.

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Book number: 4138

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Boberg, Col. Ulf.

The Boberg Story.

Howard Timmins. Cape Town 1957 1st edition. White cloth boards. 184pp illustrated b/w photos. 8vo. 0.4kg. No inscriptions. boards & eps sl.foxed, a nice clean G+ copy in ditto dustwrapper (neat inside repair, chipped around head & tail of spine but no significant tears or loss). Autobiography of then famous South African CID chief Colonel Ulf Boberg. Includes information on the 'Bubbles' Schroeder and Oppenheimer jewels cases.

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Book number: 8248

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Boccaccio, Giovanni. (Tr. J.M. Rigg).

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. 2 Volumes.

Navarre Society. London nd. Red cloth boards. 332pp + 404pp. illustrated colour plates. 8vo. set 1.4kg. No inscriptions. minor bumping to corners o/w a very clean VG+ set in VG dustwrappers (light wear at head of spines, a dib in spine to vol.2). still an attractive set. Sixteen hand-coloured illustrations from original drawings by Louis Chalon.

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Book number: 11635

Boesak, Allan Aubrey.

Farewell to Innocence. A Socio-Ethical Study on Black Theology and Power.

Orbis. NY 1981. 3rd printing. Printed wraps. xii + 185pp. No inscriptions VG, bright and clean. ISBN: 9780883441305 Same title as 'Black Theology, Black Power' published by Mowbray, Oxford, 1978. isbn 9780264665085.

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Book number: 10499

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