Jankie H E (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd edition. 3rd edition 1972. The front and the spine is printed in bold black lettering. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, marked and edge worn. There are marks around the block of the book. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are a touch rubbed, soiled and edgeworn but have suffered minimal loss. Internally clean (several inscriptions on the ffep) and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Condition: G++. No DW. 1st Edition. Green cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. Name of owner at start of book. Internally in nice condition BUTcovers a bit bumped and rubbed. Edges of text a bit browned.

First Edition. No statement of edition or printing. Quarto; stapled sheets with cloth tape spine, 46pp. Slight dusting to covers, else Fine. Text entirely in Sesotho. A fictional text for juvenile readers, likely written with pedagogic intent. From our admittedly amateur attempts at translation, the tale revolves around the adventures of Mahlasinyane, the son of a farmer, who one day, in a fit of adolescent pique, runs away from home so that he may "do as he pleases." We have not read further, but given the source of publication, one may infer that a series of Christian moral allegories follow. OCLC notes three copies in North America (and one other in South Africa); UCLA cataloguing gives the dates as "1970," almost certainly in error as Basutoland was officially renamed Lesotho in 1966.…