Search Results: the story of an african farm by iron ralph olive

Hutchinson & Co., 1887. Hardcover. Good. .

New York: A. L. Burt Company. Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. Condition is Good +. Text is clean & tight. PON on FFEP. Title page has a 3" closed tear next to the hinge. Brown boards are clean & bright with a couple of bumped corners. Undated hardcover from the early 1900s.

Crown, 1987. Very Good. Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Lessing (introduction), Doris; Iron (pseudonym), Ralph. New York: Crown, 1987. 301pp. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and rubbing. Slightly soft hinges.

New York: F. M. Lupton Book. Good+. Hardcover. Reprint.. New York: Reprint. Good+/No Dustjacket. Beige cloth boards with black, gold and yellow decoration. Gilt lettering on spine. Slight wear to corners and spine edges. Binding is tight, no cracking. Pages are clean but tanned. No names, writing or bookplates. 232 pgs..

Donohue Brothers, 1883-01-01. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. NY: American Publishers, 1883. Second edition. A number of publications of this era bear this date. This title page has Olive Schreiner in parenthesis beneath the pseudonym. Red cloth.

Philadelphia: John Wanamaker c. 1883, 258pp, nice decorated cover, light wear to cover, bkplt to frnt ep.. Cloth. Very Good -.

Crown. 1987. Reprint, Cloth, Good/No Jacket, F1 Fiction .

Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co.. Blue cloth cover with silver stamp title and design. Moderate edge wear. Clean text. Date not specified on a copyright page. Probable early twentieth century copy. C10 . Good. Hardcover. 1883.

New York: Lovell Brothers and Company, 1892. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second Edition, no date, ca. 1892. Hard cover 12mo in embossed gray cloth w/gold spine titles. Very Good/ No DJ (as issued?). Cloth rubbed, 1/4" tear at illegible crown, pages toned but supple and unmarked. 391pp inc. Glossary.

Boston: Roberts, 1889. Second edn. 12mo, pp. 375, plus 8 pages of book list. Red cloth printed in black and gilt. cover slightly worn at edges, one hinge half tender, o/w VG.

Pathfinder, D.C: Pathfinder Publishing Co, ND. HB. Black cloth, silver lettering on spine and elaborate silver designs in front cover, 16 mo., 391 pp. No marks in book, covers show minor edge wear, front ant rear hinges cracked, but binding solid. Scuff to front joint. Book condition Good+.

Roberts Brothers, 1888-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. 1898 pocket size hardcover. Low-grade reading copy with delicate spine. Penci scribble inside bc and other defects. No dj.

Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry, and Co. Gone are the days, we hope, that women had to use men's names in order to get their works published and then, hopefully purchased. Olive Schreiner writing as "Ralph Iron" presents here a fascinating view of South African farm life, with all the explosive elements of European imperialism and prejudice toward the native population intact, particularly the Boers' less than sympathetic attitudes. Although the dedication page is dated June, 1983, there is no indication of the actual publication date for this volume. The book is in Very Good+ or Near-Fine condition. A small volume, measuring 4 1/4 by 6 inches, this novel is noteworthy for its clean and bright condition and its ornate Art Nouveau front panel and spine, with die stamped silver designs and borders against a pale gray-green woven cloth. (Click on photo.) It includes decorative endpapers. The text pages have no marks, tears, stains, or signatures of former owners. However, the pages do… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1893. . New Edition, completing 70th thousand. Hardback. Olivene boards with attractive spine gilt spine decoration and titles. Contents: pages very good and clean. Binding a little fragile/stretched in places. Edge of a prize plate inside front board (paste-down). Boards: some light shelf-rubbing. Small frayed areas to spine edges and corners. Otherwise bright. Gilt nice and bright. An attractive binding. 346 pp + publisher's ads.

London, England: Hutchinson & Co. Hardcover. Good. Hutchinson, n.d. other than the date of the pseudonymous first edition (1883) on copyright page. Early edition under Schreiner's name. Good minus. Small 8vo. Red textured cloth with dulled gilt decorated spine. Some spotting to boards. Front endpapers foxed. Stunning small book stamp of Jesper Ewald on inside front board. (1893 - 1969) Ewald was a Danish author, journalist and translator. He also wrote children's books under a variety of pseudonyms.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint, first Crown edition. Quarto. 301pp. Introduction by Doris Lessing. Pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated paper label mounted on front. Fine without dustwrapper.

New York.: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987. 1st Crown Edition, stated. 1st printing. Lessing intro 1968.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. 1 First edition. Dark blue decorated cloth over boards. Paste-on farm art, front. 301 p. 27 cm. Color and B&W art. Audience: General/trade. First published under the pseudonym Ralph Iron in 1883 while author Olive Schreiner was in South Kensington, London. this novel was written when Schreiner was a young woman, a suffragette, and a pacifist. It was very much talked about in England when colonialism in Africa was dominant, yet little did the British and other Europeans know about the continent of Africa. Glossary with Dutch and Colonial words, near front. The developed characters are rural, includingthe story a mixture of autobiography, journalism, and Zeitgeist.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. First edition thus. Hard cover. Published NY: Crown, 1987, first printing. Small 4to., 8" x 10 1/2," xxixi+301 pp., illustrated with color plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles and design, pictorial cover insert. Minor foxing spots along edges, else very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

NY: A. L. Burt, c. 1910. Hardcover. Very Good +. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. The Burt edition is an early reprint. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; slight edge wear, very clean covers, gilt bright. Binding and text great with PO's name on ffep. Fiction. Stax.

Chapman and Hall 1887. Octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.