Karoo (First Edition, Inscribed by Author)

Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1955

8vo, 248pp. Hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Maps on endpapers. With full-colour frontispiece and fine monochrome plates, collated and complete.

First edition, 1955. Inscribed by the author to Ben Spillman, who was the head of the CNA book department.

Lawrence George Green (1900 – 1972) was a South African journalist and writer. Eschewing any grandiose view of his literature and his way of life, he wrote for the layman and general reading entertainment as a raconteur. As such his writings, though well populated with researched fact through his wide travels and many hours of research in the South African and British archives, do not constitute in any strict sense historical or academic reference works. Nevertheless, he remains frequently cited as a recorder of little remembered or noted fact of some historical or cultural significance in the southern African domain. (wikipedia.com)

Condition: Good. Dust jacket has light creasing, edgewear and a couple of small open tears, and has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve. Minor bumps to bottom corners of boards, bump and crease to rear board, and shelfwear to top and tail of spine, with bumping to tail of spine. Light yellowing to pages, and to endpapers. Minor stain to top edge of textblock. Text is clean, and copy is well bound.