Apartheid from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: Faber and Faber, 1984. Reprint. 12mo (20cm). Red paper wrappers, titled in black; 222pp. Signed by the author on front flyleaf, dated April 1985. Rubbed, upper front corner creased, two old price stickers to rear wrapper, a few leaves dog-eared, generally toned, but sound and clean: just Very Good. Es'kia Mphahlele (1919-2008) was a distinguished South… Read more about this item

[Cape Town]: Tafelberg, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black paper-covered boards in orange dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [viii],116pp; ad to rear jacket panel. Inscribed by the author on title page, 1981, to J. Wayne Fredericks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges, small perforation and tear… Read more about this item

Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1993. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto (24cm). Green leatherette stamped in gilt, in grey dust jacket; [xii],152pp; black and white photographs. Inscribed "To Anne, without whose exertions this book would not have been possible!" on front free endpaper. Sturdy and straight, with leather rippling slightly, corners tapped, else Very Good. Jacket rubbed at… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Beige cloth in cream dust jacket, printed in red and black; [xii],382pp; black and white illustrations. Straight and sound, with minor sunning to board edges: Very Good or better. Inscribed on front flyleaf by author: "Wayne, I am honored to know you. Joel March / 73."… Read more about this item

London: The Women's Press, 1985. Reprint. 12mo (20cm). Pictorial paperback; [xxii],266pp; black and white illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the first page: "To Anne Wyne: Let this chain of friendship remain strong" and dated 1987. Lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. Autobiography of Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-2006), South African women's rights activist and politician. [61999].

London: Faber and Faber, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Green cloth stamped in red and gilt, in white dust jacket printed in black and yellow; 310pp; publisher's ads to dust jacket rear panel. Signed by author on title page; ownership inscription of J. W. Fredericks on front free endpaper. Sound, lower front corner heavily bumped, spine sunned:… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Harper & Row, [1978]. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Tan paper-covered boards, backed in light brown cloth, in black dust jacket; viii,216pp. Slight rubbing at lower edge, minor mark to fore-edge, else Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, mildly toned along extreme edges, with price label to front panel: Very Good or better. Biko (1946-1977)… Read more about this item

Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Printed pale green card wrappers; 29pp. Fine, with U.S. price (70¢) stamped at base of front cover. An well-annotated bibliography, containing 164 items, an appendix of relevant periodicals, and index.

London: Pelham Richardson, 1851-[1852]. First Edition. First impression, with Advertisement dated May, 1851. Octavo (22cm); 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards, 310pp; 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (including frontispiece); of which three are tinted lithographs; additional inserted leaf with a Table of Distances; one map and several tables in text. Bound from the four original parts, with stab-holes evident.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1984. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-222,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the preliminary blank, dated April, 1985. Light wear to extremities, subtle tanning to text edges, with two small price stickers to rear wrapper; Near Fine. The South Africa author and artist's best-known book, published during the first year of his exile,… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); dark grey paper-covered boards and light grey cloth backstrip, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],340,[4]pp. A bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Light wear to spine ends, tiny ink mark to… Read more about this item

Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1972-1977. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm). 4 volumes in black cloth, stamped in gilt; 1: [xxii],378pp; 2: [xviii],536pp; 3: xx,825,[1]pp; 4: xxiii,[23],178pp; black and white illustrations in vol. 4. 1972 presentation card from Gwdendolen M. Carter to Wayne Fredericks laid down in vol. 1. Generally sound, straight, and lightly rubbed, with occasional spotting to cloth, minor… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Privately Published, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Printed buff wrappers; 119pp; portraits. Generally clean, but with a faint diagonal crease to lower 1/3 of text block throughout; mild external soil and small paper losses at spine ends, still about Very Good. Anti-British propaganda issued on behalf of the Orange Free State of South Africa for American readers,… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Education, 1973. First Edition. First impression. No cloth edition was issued. Square octavo (22cm); pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; small splash-stain to first two leaves; Very Good. An exploration, aimed at secondary-school readers, of the effects of colonialism on the African continent.

Kwa-Dlangezwa, South Africa: University of Zululand, 1980. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's blue staplebound wrappers; [2],15pp. Light soil and a hint of foxing to wrapper extremities, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's compliments card laid in.

Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1987. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's pictorial brown staplebound wrappers; 43pp.; photographic illus. Some wear to extremities, else Very Good. Address first delivered at the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of South Africa, London, July 30, 1986. Though well represented in European institutions, none in North America according to OCLC as of… Read more about this item

New York: PAC, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [4],36pp. Publisher's new address rubber-stamped on title page, else Fine. Contents include an interview with the Congress's Theo Bidi and two official documents--the policy and programme, and "Principles of a United Front in People's War." The Congress was first founded in 1959 "To forge, foster and consolidate… Read more about this item

Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1958. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 23pp. Clean and tight; VG or better. Presidential address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Council of the South African Institute of Race Relations, 13 January 1958.

London: LRD Publications Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.25cm); stapled wrappers; 20pp. Light wear to extremities, else Fine. A pamphlet, jointly published by the Labor Research Department and African National Congress (South Africa), addressing the following questions: "What in fact does apartheid mean in human terms? How does it affect the different race groups in South Africa? And… Read more about this item

Prague: Peace and Socialism Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 38,[2]pp. Light wear to wrappers, touch of dustiness to rear wrapper, else Near Fine. Exposé of the apartheid system, with contents dealing with the politics of cheap labour, apartheid in practice, the confidence trick of apartheid, international action and the collaborators, and the people's struggle.… Read more about this item