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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Walton, James

Homesteads & Villages of South Africa (1965)

Published: Van Schaik, Pretoria , 1965

Edition: Second

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One of this author\'s later books is Lot 12.

Walton wrote Homesteads and Villages in 1952, while he was still in government service in Mafiteng, Basutolands. The second edition, of which this is a copy, came out 13 years later. This book is as valuable to its subject - which Walton then called folk architecture, later and perhaps more correctly, though less attractively, vernacular architecture - as his mill book is to molinology.

Walton again chose a magnificent subject for his unclipped dustjacket [R6.30 for the ordinary edition and R10.50 for the de luxe edition, signed and bound in full leather!], although \"sketch\" seems too modest a word for Pierneef\'s painting or Lormarins at Groot Drakenstein. The jacket is complete but edge-chipped. The plain endpapers, sunned in register with the jacket, have a bookseller sticker on the front paste-down and an owner\'s name and date in ink on the front free leaf.

The xiv + 114 pp of illustrated text, bibliography and indexes - on uncoated paper and all fine - are followed by 57 monochrome plates, nearly all from Walton\'s own photographs; these, printed on art paper, are all present and also fine.

 

  • Jacket Condition: Good +
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 285 x 215
  • Sold By: Fontein Books
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
  • Trade Associations: AA Approved


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