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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Bosman, Herman Charles

MAFEKING ROAD

Published: Central News Agency LTD, South Africa, 1947

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Hardcover Octavo, Light grey cloth boards with 133 pages. Black titling to the front cover and to the spine also has a dust jacket.

The front/back of the scarce dust jacket has some marks/smudges, a few tears, closed/open-end tears to the jacket’s top edges and spine, all due to general shelf wear.

Previous owner’s inscription on the front pastedown. Slight offsetting to the front and rear pastedowns, and front free and rear end pages.

Internally, the binding and the book are in good condition.

Herman Charles Bosman's short stories have enjoyed wide popularity. Among people who have made a study of the short story, there have been those who have declared of Herman Charles Bosman's work in this field that it merits not unworthy comparison with the work of some of the world's masters in the art of the short story.

Each of the stories here presented is identified with the central character, Oom Scalk Lourens, an old Boer farmer, who has seen all the way into life, but whose experiences have not embittered him; and who retains, in spite of the rigidities of his Calvanistic outlook and background, and in spite of all his narrow backveld prejudices (and he has them in good measure), a warm kindliness of disposition, irradiating the stories he tells with a sincere and strangely moving humanity.

  • Jacket Condition: Good
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 220 x 145 mm
  • Sold By: Bookdealers cc
  • Contact Person: Doron Locketz
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 0114407936
  • Preferred Payment Methods: EFT, Payfast, Credit Card
  • Trade Associations: South African Bookdealers Association


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