5 x VINTAGE SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY BOOKS - all are inscribed

1.) FROM VELD & "STREET" by M. E. Greville

First edition published by Effingham Wilson (London) & J. C. Juta (Cape Town), 1899.

Green cloth hardcover with gilt titles on front panel.

63pp. Inscribed on title page "With kind regards from M. E. G."

'Sixty-one poems, the majority of which deal with subjects of interest to South African colonists. One of the items recounts Mr. Rhodes' reception in Cape Town on his return from the Matabele campaign, and another his subsequent voyage to England when summoned to give his evidence before the Commission appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the Jameson Raid.' - Mendelssohn Vol.I, Page 638

2.) VIOLET LEAVES by Jack Savile Judd (scarce early Durban printing)

First edition published by P. Davis & Sons, Durban, 1905.

Light blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles on front panel.

44pp. Inscribed on front endpaper "To Ettie Holden with the author's love, Feb. 08. 1907."

3.) A WANDERER'S RHYMES by Albert Brodrick

Second edition published by Wilkinson Bros., London, 1905

Publisher's light brown cloth binding. Illustrated. Gift inscription by his son Harold Brodick on front endpaper dated 19th June, 1923, Johannesburg.

South African themed poems. Albert Brodrick was a well-known and respected personality in early Pretoria as well as a spirited poet. His first book of poems "Fifty Fugitive Fancies", published in 1875, has the distinction of being the FIRST volume of poetry published in the Transvaal. He was the owner of the Gaiety Bar, the first bar on Pretoria's church square. At the time he was the only person who managed to get a license to sell wine by the bottle. The famous artist Thomas Baines made a painting of his bar as payment for his groceries debt to Brodrick. The Boers jokingly called him Broodryk, which is a common Dutch/Afrikaans surname which closely resembles Brodrick.

4.) LOST IN THE KAROO AND OTHER POEMS by Kate Scanlen

First edition published by James Blackwood, London, 1910.

Red blindstamped cloth binding with titles in gilt on front panel.

With an unpublished poem in author's hand written on the verso of half-title page, a few corrections in text in author's hand, some additional errata on the verso of errata slip, and another handwritten poem on page 82.

5.) THE VOICE OF THE VELDT by Owen R. Thompson

First edition published by The Epworth Press, London, 1930.

Green cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed on front endpaper, "To the Rev. A. C. File of Graaff-Reinet with the best wishes of Owen R. Thompson".