2003, ISBN: 9781552380802

Paperback, Hardcover, First edition

Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1985. 848 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "This completely rewritten 5th edition brings the text fully up to date to the end of April 1984. Illustra… More...

Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1985. 848 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "This completely rewritten 5th edition brings the text fully up to date to the end of April 1984. Illustrating 891 species of birds in full colour, it incorporates a vast amount of new information as well as a number of special new features: two colour plates of species new to the southern Africa list; many completely new plates by Geoff Lockwood and Kenneth Newman, painted especially for this edition; extended and updated text sections on identification; several dichotomous keys and other aids to bird identification for beginners; new enlarged distribution maps in colour, showing at a glance whether a bird is resident (green), breeding migrant (blue) or nonbreeding migrant (yellow); sonagrams of most vocalizations to aid interpretation of birdcalls, all fully explained in the Introduction; revised and corrected bird names in English, Afrikaans and eight African languages; rainfall and vegetation maps in colour; abbreviated text references to important works published on particular species or families of birds." Small bump at bottom of spine and at top edg of front board, minor soiling on edges of text block. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling with a few tiny tears, light rubbing and scattered light line indentations, large crease on rear flap.. 5th Edition, Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Kenneth Newman and Geoff Lockwood.., John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1985, 3, Bear Manufacturing Co., 1937. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A left-stapled newsletter printed on glossy paper stock and containing eight pages including front and rear covers. Contains news of the Bear Manufacturing Company, "Leaders and Pioneers in Wheel Aligning Equipment, Established in 1912." With photographs and illustrations, contents include: cover photograph of Godfrey W. Volkwyn, Bear representative in South Africa, with a group of Bushmen; news items include Bear Safety Electros; Racers at Indianapolis Speedway May Pick Own Gas; New Shim for Pontiac Standard; New Bear Coat Emblems; Neonglas Sign; cartoon "Happy Bear Is On The Job!"; poem "The Passing of the Pot" (with lesson: "Why Use Old Equipment In A Modern Shop?"); "Our Bear Paid Dividends Right from the Start"; Inspection of Cars shows 80% need Service; Big Year at Bear Factory School. Previously, but lightly, folded; covers show light edge wear in places.., Bear Manufacturing Co., 1937, 3, Johannesburg: Bateleur Press, 1980 A novel. They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. The old world of pogroms is challenged by their new lives in Africa and the child Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers. Amid the beauty and strangeness of an alien continent, where Passover falls in autumn, not spring, and "the smell of warm damp earth and bruised marigolds mingles with that of sabbath cooking," Zwi's Jewish immigrants of the 1930s strive for balance and normalcy in Mayfair, a mining suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The straightforward but often dense first novel effectively plays family drama against tumultuous historical events, recalling pogroms and Nazi massacres in Europe as well as the ever-current South African brand of racism and civil strife. Through a tidy triptych of three men and their families, Zwi presents the immigrant Jews' struggles to root themselves in their adopted home. The assimilationist Berka embraces his new country with loving vigour, his friend Hershl spouts Zionist ideology and his brother-in-law Dovid longs for Lithuania and its socialist movement. Dovid's sense of tradition intrigues Raizel, Berka's daughter, and their inevitable, bittersweet affair sets much of the drama as Raizel ultimately rejects her community. In the married Dovid's now-broken home, his young daughter Ruth emerges to attempt her own adaption to South Africa. Though Zwi sometimes stumbles through cumbersome history-saturated dialogue, she finds a deft, tender voice in recounting the personal, familial events, capturing the pathos if not the turbulence of this unique chapter in South African Jewish history. Size: 6" X 8", Bateleur Press, 1980, 2.5, London: Heinemann, 1977. Paperback. Good. SIGNED BY GABRIEL OKARA. Softcover. c.1977. 8vo.127pp. Good. Soiling to covers, spine rubbed, corners creased, previous owner's signature inside cover, light age toning., Heinemann, 1977, 2.5, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2003. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix, 313pp w index. Prev owner name inked small to top corner ffep. Titled boards are clean and without wear. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Volume 1 from the Africa Missing Voices series (General Editors Donald I. Ray and Peter Shinnie), published in conjunction with the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), Brussels, Belgium., University of Calgary Press, 2003, 4<