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Rare & Collectable Books

January 2025

 

Boer War Diary

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/militaria/boerwardiary

By Private George Ogilvie of the Gordon Highlanders.

Typescript with original drawings and annotations.

Housed in an acid free folder.

218mm x 339mm

R25,000

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The Iron Man

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/the-iron-man-uncorrected-proof-copy

By Ted Hughes

Published in 1968 by Faber and Faber, London. This copy was published a year earlier, 1967. Uncorrected Proof Copy.

The Iron Man is the most popular of all the poet’s many works for children. It was made into a rock opera by Peter Townshend in 1993 and an animated film. No sale roon record of a proof copy being sold.

153mm x 208mm

R20,000

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An Acquaintance with Description (signed)
https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/an-acquaintance-with-description-signed
By Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)
Published by the Seizin Press, London 1929
First Edition. Octavo. 50 pages. Cream buckram covers.
The second book of Robert Graves’ Seizin Press.
Number 192 of 225 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the printed limitation label on the verso of the half-title page.

R20,000

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The Assassination of Shaka

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/art/the-assassination-of-shaka

Limited edition de luxe edition contains an original woodcut by Cecil Skotnes and is no. 84 out of 250 copies.

Published by McGraw-Hill Johannesburg, 1974.

By Mhlangane Dingane and Mbopa on 22 September 1828 at Dukuza by which act The Zulu Nation first lost its Empire.

43 Woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes. Text by Stephen Gray.

Some preliminary foxing.

246mm x 356mm

R7,500

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The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/the-idea-of-a-world-encyclopaedia

By Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)

Published in 1936 by The Hogarth Press ( an independent company by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf).

Wells published a collection of essays on the future organisation of knowledge and education, World Brain, including the essay “The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia.” In this, Wells foresees something like the world-wide web, or a version of Wikipedia.

126mm x 184mm

R4,500

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The Art of Paper Making

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/the-art-of-paper-making

1976
De luxe edition, number 271 out of 405.

The first English translation of 'Art de Faire le Papier' by Joseph Jerome La Francais de Lalande, Paris 1761.

”The Academy had chosen the right man to compile the text ‘The Art of Paper Making.’ He was not a professional expert, but he was a scientist, trained to observe and to report. He visited paper mills personally, but he was wise enough to seek help of men who had lived all their life among paper makers, in different parts of France.”

Translated into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson.

Signed by the printer Paul Kavanagh and by the paper-maker/publisher Ian O'Casey. (see last page).

270mm x 374mm

R4,500

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Ogden’s Photo Album

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/militaria/ogdens-photo-album

An original album with cigarette cards, 143 various including Boer War, Royalty, Politicians, Novelists, Military etc.
c.1902
Binding repairs.
178mm x 150mm

R3,000

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Abraham and Isaac

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/abraham-and-isaac-1999

Linocut illustrations by J. Martin Pitts (signed).
Number 31 out of 220 copies. Published by The Old Stile Press.
1999.

250mm x 320mm

R3,000.

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South Africa The Solution

https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/south-africa-the-solution
1987

Limited Edition with inscription by Winnie Mandela, “Best wishes for a democratic South Africa”.

Copy number 24.

Signed by the authors Leon Louw and Frances Kendall, December 1993. 

162mm x 235mm

R2,000

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Die Ryk van Vliee
https://jamesfindlaycollectablebooks.com/first-editions/die-ryk-van-vliee
1966 First Afrikaans Edition of Lord of the Flies by William Golding .

Very fragile dust jacket.
142mm x 213mm

R1,000

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