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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner

THE MIGRATORY SPRINGBUCKS OF SOUTH AFRICA

Author's copy, annotated in his own hand, in ink. Some corrections and annotations initialled S.C.C. Date in author's own hand: Published August 1925.

Published: T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1925

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No dust jacket. Green cloth-covered boards, dark margin and titles on front and spine. Covers and binding in Very Good condition. Some internal foxing.

Loose errata printed page, and matching corrections in Author's own hand. Additions to the text mostly in ink, sometimes in pencil. Gift inscription, initialled and handwritten, on ffe. Introduction written in the first person, and changes made to dates or events as he re-assessed them.

7 b/w photographs. Pages [1-4]5-140 plus 4 pages describing Olive Schreiner and Cronwright-Schreiners other books published by T. Fisher Unwin.

Chapters: 1 - The Trekbokke and the Trek of 1896; Ch. 2 - Episodes about the area and the springbucks by other writers, selected by S.C.C.; Ch. 3 - Note on 'migration' by the Author; Ch.4 - The Ostrich, by the Author, reprinted from The Zoologist of March 1897; Ch. 5 - The Zambesi Falls by the Author.

  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 195 x 135 x 25 mm
  • Sold By: Pringle Bay Books
  • Contact Person: Neil Berens
  • Country: South Africa
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  • Telephone: 082 899 7195 or 083 652 5694
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  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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