Isbn: 9780091708702 - the story of an african farm (7 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Hutchinson, London, 1987. Pictorial hard cover. Book condition : Very good, a very clean copy. Superb illustrations. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #JT022667.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. blue cloth boards, titles to spine and front, paste down illustration, clean condition, 301pp, pages bright and clean and fine condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Thus. Reprint of a novel about growing up on an African farm in the mid 1800s. Originally written by Olive Schreiner under the pen name of 'Ralph Irons'. It is an important book that has long been out of print and hard to come by. Introduction by Doris Lessing. A vivid and insightful look at life in a Boer settlement on an isolated and lonely homestead in an arid mountainous area of South Africa in the 19th century. First thus edition is a quarto of gilt decorated blue cloth with a central glued down paper print of the homestead. Lightly bumped upper cornes and slight fading of gilt decorations. Illustrated throughout in color with paintings by Frans Oerder and Thomas Baines. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 346 pages. xxix, 301 pages [1] pages of plates : 26 cm Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-c entury fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an in tolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leave s the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return four years later from an unhappy relationship. Unable to meet the demands of her myst erious lover, Lyndall retires to a house in Bloemfontein, where, delirious with exhaustion, she is unknowingly tended by an English farmer disguised as her fema le nurse Text on lining papers.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condición: Very Good. No Dust jacket, the cover is a tiny bit worn and there is some very light foxing, otherwise this is immaculate.