ISBN: 9780958320658 - grahamstown reflected (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with some edge wear. Book content is clean and bright with owner name to prelim page.

285 x 224 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 160; lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs and reproductions of contemporary photographs and artwork. Slight curl to top fore-corner of upper cover. Very good condition. "Good old Grahamstown - there is nowhere else quite like it. Hidden in a secret valley amid the wide open spaces of the Eastern Cape, a dot on the map between Port Elizabeth and East London, with a special corner in the hearts of the thousands of students who have studied at its renowned schools and university. History has happened here - and still does. Dick King rode here in 1842, Parliament sat here in 1864, the national arts festival takes place here every July. South Africa's oldest postbox, family-owned newspaper and hotel are still going strong. Locals and visitors alike will revel in this vibrantly visual reflection of Grahamstown. The informal, informative text is complemented by more than 800 full-colour photographs, plus fascinating sepia prints from the Albany Museum archives and the Cory Library for Historical Research at Rhodes.".…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are damaged on the spine.Internally clean.Tightly bound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. boards are shelf rubbed. light marks. no inscriptions. well bound. very good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are shelf rubbed. Bumped and a little cocked. Marked. No inscriptions. Internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Signed by Emily. boards are shelf rubbed, a bit edge worn and knocked. light scarring and marks. sound binding. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to.pp.159. ISBN:0958320659. From the Library of HRH The Duke of Gloucester; purchased by ourselves from Kensington Palace. Gift copy to HRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: full-page inscription by hand in calligraphic script "St. John in South Africa was founded in 1883 in Grahamstown. This book marks the memorable Occasion of the visit of Their Royal Highnesses,The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, in November 1996 to the Eastern Cape." BOOK: copious colour and b/w historical photographs of Grahamstown, South Africa. Short history and essay on the arts and development of the town. Original publisher's laminated boards featuring a colour photographs of townsfolk and historical buildings. /Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester(b.1944) is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary. He is currently 31st in line of succession to the British throne. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne, behind his first cousins Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, his father, and his elder brother Prince William of Gloucester.He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he assumed in 1974. He married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in July 1972. /Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen in Odense, Denmark, 1946. She is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She was educated in Odense and Cambridge where she me her husband. Very good indeed.…