BOOK COLLECTING IN SOUTH AFRICA & THE ENCHANTED DOOR

1.Christison (Grant)
BOOK COLLECTING IN SOUTH AFRICA

Pictorial softcover, 169pp with illustrations, some colour and supporting data. Spine slightly sunned. Crisp, glossy copy.

Few South Africans have discovered the pleasure of book collecting.This little guide is designed to stimulate local interest in book collecting and to provide practical tips on how to begin.169pp with illustrations and supporting data. A good copy.

2.Godfrey (Denis)
THE ENCHANTED DOOR

A discourse on Africana book-collecting, with notes on famous collectors, collections and books Limited edition No 824 of 1200

xvii, 241pp plus 18 pp index + 12 inserted pp of b/w photographs on gloss art paper. (Photographs of Mendelssohn, Kruger, Fehr, J B Robinson, Louis Cohen, Barney Barnato, Frank Harris, Killie Campbell and Johannes van Schaik.)

Russet linen hardcover boards with black lettering, and pictorial dustjacket and two closed tears. Dustjacket unclipped. Endpapers printed in sepia with "Africa XXV Nova Tabvla" map.

Although published 63 years ago, Godfrey's The Enchanted Door remains perhaps the best Africana book-collectors' primer.