A SOUTH AFRICAN BOY (1897) & GRACE TRIUMPHANT (1939)

1.) A SOUTH AFRICAN BOY - SCHOOLBOY LIFE IN NATAL by Natalian (A. W. Baker)

First edition published by Marshall, Russell and Co., London, 1897.

Publisher's green cloth binding with Natal ferns illustration on front panel, spine, and rear panel.

viii + 168pp.

Binding sound. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down. Light foxing to prelims and final pages.

'A kind of colonial "Tom Brown's Schooldays", representing school and college life in Natal at the close of the nineteenth century. It is stated that although in some cases fictitious names have been given, in others the real names of the actors have been used, whilst "the narrative from beginning to end is one of actual fact."' - Mendelssohn Vol.II, page 87

2.) GRACE TRIUMPHANT - The life Story of a Carpenter, Lawyer, and Missionary, in South Africa from 1856 to 1939 by Albert Weir Baker (1856-1951)

First edition published by the author in 1939.

Publisher's green cloth binding with titles on spine. Original dust jacket.

316pp. Foreword by Alan F. Hattersley.

Binding sound. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers and fore edge when book is closed. Internally clean. The very scarce dust jacket is complete with some age-associated markings.

Alan F. Hattersley writes in the foreword (page 9) that "Albert Baker, writing under the pseudonym "Natalian," recorded the incidents of schoolboy life, and produced a volume which might rank with the well-known classic of Thomas Hughes."