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Auction #132 begins on 09 Jul 2026

Paul Alberts (photos), Abraham H. De Vries (text)

DIE KLEIN KAROO, 'N LEGKAART (1977) - the photographer and publisher's FIRST book

Published: Tafelberg-Uitgewers, Kaapstad, 1977

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $70

Approximately:

Estimate: $100

Bidding opens: 9 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 16 Jul 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Publisher's brown cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket. 

29pp. of text by South African author Abraham H. De Vries, followed by 56pp. of black & white photographs by renowned SA photographer Paul Alberts.

Book in fine condition with clean pages and solid binding. Jacket very good to near fine.

This book had a low print run of around 800 copies.

Apart from photography Alberts was also a publisher and the proprietor of the Gallery Press, which published David Goldblatt's celebrated work In Boksburg. Alberts' first book of photography, Die Klein Karoo, was published in 1977.

Photos of rural Karoo from a still very recent, yet bygone era.

  • Jacket Condition: Very Good
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 4to.


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