Buy this book on-line Seary, E. R : A Biographical and Bibliographical Record of South African Literature in English(Grahamstown: the author, 1938)
Folio; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover; pp. iv + 66 (typescript on rectos). Cloth somewhat mottled; bump to tail of spine; pages browned, a little foxed, and with pencilled annotations; staples holding textblock very rusted. Good. A pioneering work in its field, described on the title page as a 'tentative edition'. Seary was Lecturer in English at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown. "The following pages are an attempt to show what has been written in English by South African authors and who those authors are. ... By 'South African' author, I have understood a writer who has published work in South Africa, or who has been represented in South African anthologies, or who has been born in the country, or lived there during the greater part of his creative life. I have purposely omitted such writers as Rider Haggard and John Buchan, who have lived in and written about Africa, but who are conventionally regarded as English writers. Literature is limited to fiction, poetry, drama and literary criticism." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Seary, E. R : A Biographical and Bibliographical Record of South African Literature in English. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, collectables, atlases, livres illustrées and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |