18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2115
South Africa - Apartheid Related
Magubane (Peter), Soweto, Portrait of a City, New Holland, 1990, quarto, signed by Archbishop Desmond Tuto who wrote the foreword, dust wrapper;
Meer (Fatima), Higher than Hope, the Authorised Biography of Nelson Mandela, Hamish Hamilton, 1988, presentation copy from the author, dust wrapper;
Bernstein (Hilda), The World That Was Ours, Heinemann, 1967, first edition, taped in slip signed by the author with typed request for donations to Amnesty, dust wrapper;
idem, The World That Was Ours, SAWriters, 1989, presentation inscription signed by the author, dust wrapper;
idem, For Their Triumphs & For Their Tears ..., IDAF, 1985, signed by the author, paperback;
idem, The Rift ..., Jonathan Cape, 1994, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper;
de Klerk (Willem), F. W. de Klerk, The Man in His Time, Johannesburg, 1991, signed by F.W. de Klerk, dust wrapper;
de Klerk (F. W.), F. W. de Klerk, The Last Trek - A New Beginning, Macmillan, 1998, signed by F.W. de Klerk and his wife, dust wrapper (8)
Sold for £60
Estimated at £60 - £100
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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