Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: savehere619, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: USED_GOOD.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1988
Seller: CHESIL BEACH BOOKS, WEYMOUTH, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated edition with a new Epilogue by the Author. Shelf wear on dj covers, light wear to book at extremities, dj price clipped , otherwise vg. 1600 grams.
Published by London : Chatto & Windus, 1988
ISBN 10: 0701132957 ISBN 13: 9780701132958
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 261 p. : ill., map, col. photos. ; 29 cm. Notes; First published (without photos.) 1958. Subjects; Kalahari. Photography. Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg.
Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: USED_GOOD. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Published by Chatto and Windus, London, United Kingdom, 1988
ISBN 10: 0701132957 ISBN 13: 9780701132958
Seller: Autumn Leaves, Allentown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Photography By David Coulson (illustrator). First Edition. A clean and pristine copy of this illustrated edition of a classic book, with a new epilogue by the author, titled The Great and Little Memory. There are no inscriptions or signs of prior use. The jacket has a touch of wear at the base of the spine. A mylar Brodart cover now protects it. Fast shipping, and careful packing in a box. Surcharge on Priority and International shipping, due to size.; Oversize.
Published by London : Chatto & Windus, 1988
ISBN 10: 0701132957 ISBN 13: 9780701132958
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 261 p. : ill., map, col. photos. ; 29 cm. Notes; First published (without photos.) 1958. Subjects; Kalahari. Photography. Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg.
Published by William Morrow & Co, New York, NY, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: Cider Creek Books, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1988. 4to. 1st edition, 1st printing. [264] pp. Printed blue cloth, sharp corners, Price penciled on half title page. Pages: clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has wear/light creasing at edges and corners. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 264 pages.
Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: USED_GOOD. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 3.15.
Published by William Morrow, New York,, 1988
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Quarto hardcover; dark blue boards with gilt spine titling, illustrated endpapers; 261pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Inscription to owner. Minor wear; small tear on upper head of dustwrapper spine and lightly worn edges and corners. Very good to near fine otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Once, as a child aged 13, I noticed a book that had been wrongly placed on my shelves. At first I took it to be The Lost World, the story of Professor Challenger's bumbling expedition to a kingdom of monsters within the steaming forests of South America. Conan Doyle's book was a ripping tale but had the disadvantage of being make-believe, whereas the great thing about The Lost World of the Kalahari, this other book, was that it was for real. Somewhere out there, the last Bushmen actually existed. There was one of them on the cover, an off-yellow lady who wore only a scanty apron of thin leather and a necklace fashioned from ostrich eggshell. She had a stick in her hand - it could be usefully employed to dig up grubs, I imagined - and she was looking over her left shoulder, as if she had mislaid something precious in the ochre sand. I already had ambitions to be an explorer, and as I grew older this book helped sustain my dream. Laurens van der Post's Kalahari was a place where strange, inexplicable things could still happen. It was a never-never land. 'Ever since the days of the first Bushman,' I read, 'no hunter had ever killed an Eland without thanking it with a dance.' This was the 1970s, and with CND reminding us daily that ours was a spoiled world, the book became a sanctuary - a refuge from the angst of our barren, urban lives. We read of pitifully small bands of nomads who carried their water in eggshells as they roamed. We learned of how Van der Post had woken with the Bushmen at daybreak and watched them scan the sky for signs of rain. 'He stood there swaying on his feet, the sweat of an unimaginable exertion like silk tight upon his skin . Swaying, he made a gesture and uttered words of a prayer to the night around him.' Though published back in 1958 by the Hogarth Press - the nomads, you imagined, were even more beleaguered by now - the book still gave hope of a utopia; it was a message of what might have been. What did we know of the messenger himself? Rather less. At the time, it seemed enough to know that Van der Post's command of language, his mystical leanings and concern for the environment fuelled his work as a spiritual and political advisor, conservationist and philosopher. Influential figures as diverse as Margaret Thatcher and his godson Prince Charles drew inspiration from his work. 'I feel myself to have become a kind of improvised footbridge across the widening chasm between Europe and Africa,' he once said. Many years on, and now an author of travel books myself, the word began to circulate in literary circles that Van der Post was something of a fibber. But by now I had managed to get myself invited to tea with the great man. He had even gone so far as to write - in a reply to my letter that he signed in turquoise ink - that he'd value a meeting with me. We sat in Chelsea and sipped our tea, and his wife, Ingaret Giffard, pottered in and out. I recalled that he had dedicated the book to her, along with Klara, who was - the story went - his half-Bushman nursemaid. That afternoon, Van der Post was to me all he had seemed from the book: interested, gentle and receptive. A poet or storyteller if you like, but genuine. My lost world was sustained - it could still exist for me. It was three years after Van der Post's death that JDF Jones published his devastating biography, The Many Lives of Laurens Van der Post. 'Time after time, the storyteller's tales about himself were inaccurate, embellished, exaggerated, distorted or invented,' Jones wrote. 'Put more.
Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: NEW. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: NEW.
Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1988
Seller: INFINIBU KG, Neuss, Germany
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Inhalt: The Vanished People, the Manner of the Going, the Pact and the Random Years u.v.m. With The Great and the Little Memory a new epilogue by the author. Zustand: Schutzumschlag mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! 261 Seiten, sehr viele Abbildungen Englisch 1450g Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag, Leinen-Einband.
Published by Chatto & Windus,, London,, 1988
ISBN 10: 0701132957 ISBN 13: 9780701132958
First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: USED_FINE. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Illustrated Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 4to. pp 261. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author on half title page, 'For Hugh, Laurens van der Post'. Previously published in London by Hogarth, 1952. ISBN: 0701132957 Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Signedes.
Published by Century,, London,, 1987
ISBN 10: 071261480X ISBN 13: 9780712614801
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. David Coulson (Photographer) (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 223. Original publishers blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author on the half title page from the photographer, David Coulson and Laurens van der Post (who is mentioned on page 218), "with love on behalf of all of us, Laurens van der Post. with all best wishes from David Coulson, London 1987." ISBN: 071261480X Fine in very good indeed dust jacket. Excellent condition. Signedes.
Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Condition: NEW. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 3.15.
Published by William Morrow, New York, 1958
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. David Coulson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stock Image THE LOST WORLD OF THE KALAHARI: a magnificent account of Colonel Van Der Post's journey into the African dessert and of his search for the last remaining Bushman. Original cloth fine in the fine original dust jacket. signed by the author on the title page in bold ink. rare thus. a rare book more so POST, Laurens Van Der, David Coulson (Illus). By the Author.
Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988
ISBN 10: 068808608X ISBN 13: 9780688086084
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: NEW. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0701132957 ISBN 13: 9780701132958
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Coulson, David (illustrator). First Thus Edition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, this dated 1988 hardcover First Thus Edition is VG in Vg dustjacket. Signed and isnscribed by author as follows, "For John, with great gratitude and affection from Laurens who always remembers him and misses seeing him.(Signed) Laurens van der Post." 264pp with 10 Chapters, Colour Photos by David Coulson, and Epilogue. Size is 12" x 9". Condition VG. Signed by Laurens Van Der Post.