Buy this book on-line Slater, Francis Carey : Dark Folk and other poemsWilliam Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1935
the wraps are bit torn and worn. chipped. ex-library. creasing. rubber stamps. previous owner's inscription. tightly bound. [P.K.]. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Soft cover 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 Slater, Francis Carey : Dark Folk and other poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Slater, Francis Carey : Dark Folk And Other Poems(Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1935)
Crown 8vo; original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xii + 85 + (ii). Spine sunned and a little mottled; corners a bit bumped; slightest rippling to cloth of upper cover's bottom edge; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of fishmothing to endpapers; moderate foxing throughout. Good. 'Though he disclaimed that his "Dark Folk" poems (1935) were "translations or imitations of native verse", Slater managed to capture something of the feel and idiom of traditional Xhosa song, as in the lovely "Lament for a Dead Cow" ... and also to convey a sense of a vanishing rural culture, once again in terms of the imagery and conceptual world of the Xhosa, as in "Milking Kraal" ... ' - M. van Wyk Smith: Grounds of Contest. A Survey of South African English LIterature. 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 Slater, Francis Carey : Dark Folk And Other Poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. SLATER, Francis Carey : Dark Folk and Other PoemsWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1935
First Edition. A fine copy in the original thin card pale grey pictorial wrappers as issued. A scarce title by this prolific Colonial poet. 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 SLATER, Francis Carey : Dark Folk and Other Poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. SLATER, Francis Carey : Dark Folk and Other PoemsWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1935
First Edition. A fine copy in the very scarce vg++ spinedarkened d.w., some edgewear and shallow chipping to spine. Inscribed presentation copy from Sl;ater, signed and dated Maritzburg 23.9.42. 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 SLATER, Francis Carey : Dark Folk and Other Poems. 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 out-of-print books, first editions, antiquarian books, libri rari and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |