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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Battiss

The Little Jacaranda Tree

Published: Knox, Durban, May,1942

Edition: 1st

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The Little Jacaranda tree, Fifteen Stories for Young South Africans, The Knox Publishing Company, Durban, E.E. Merritt drawings and jacket design by W.W. Battiss, 59 pages, 140 x 213 mm, dust jacket has tears to spine, book is unmarked but slight indentation on spine, condition of dust jacket: fair, condition of book: good.

A childrens book from the war years with little to recommend it except Battiss was the illustrator. Walter Whall Battiss is considered the foremost South African abstract painter and is the creator of "Fook Island".

  • Jacket Condition: fair
  • Binding Condition: good
  • Overall Condition: good
  • Size: 140 x 213 mm


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