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South African Summer.
First edition of Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's travelogue of her journey in South Africa, with the rare dust-jacket. This is one of her scarcer titles, owned by fellow author Alfred John Brown (1894-1969).
D.U.R. (as she was often known) was a prolific author as well as being a well-known Yorkshire socialite. This trip to South Africa was somewhat of a honeymoon with her second husband Noel McGrigor-Phillips: in fact they travelled almost continuously from 1932 until the outbreak of the war in 1939. They toured Cape Town and then went through the West Cape, journeyed along the coat of the East Cape, past Transkei and Thembuland, through Natal, ending in the Valley of a Thousand Hills where D.U.R. caught malaria.
First edition; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); 15 plates including frontispiece, folding map, ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original brick-red cloth with red lettering to upper board and spine, rare original dust-jacket with correct price of 10.s 6d., showing a photo of the titular car and caravan, with a couple of small tears and chips to edges and fold creases along spine and panels, cloth a little rubbed, a very good copy; x, 190 pp.
D.U.R. (as she was often known) was a prolific author as well as being a well-known Yorkshire socialite. This trip to South Africa was somewhat of a honeymoon with her second husband Noel McGrigor-Phillips: in fact they travelled almost continuously from 1932 until the outbreak of the war in 1939. They toured Cape Town and then went through the West Cape, journeyed along the coat of the East Cape, past Transkei and Thembuland, through Natal, ending in the Valley of a Thousand Hills where D.U.R. caught malaria.
First edition; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); 15 plates including frontispiece, folding map, ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original brick-red cloth with red lettering to upper board and spine, rare original dust-jacket with correct price of 10.s 6d., showing a photo of the titular car and caravan, with a couple of small tears and chips to edges and fold creases along spine and panels, cloth a little rubbed, a very good copy; x, 190 pp.
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First edition of Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's travelogue of her journey in South Africa, with the rare dust-jacket. This is one of her scarcer titles, owned by fellow author Alfred John Brown (1894-1969).
D.U.R. (as she was often known) was a prolific author as well as being a well-known Yorkshire socialite. This trip to South Africa was somewhat of a honeymoon with her second husband Noel McGrigor-Phillips: in fact they travelled almost continuously from 1932 until the outbreak of the war in 1939. They toured Cape Town and then went through the West Cape, journeyed along the coat of the East Cape, past Transkei and Thembuland, through Natal, ending in the Valley of a Thousand Hills where D.U.R. caught malaria.
First edition; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); 15 plates including frontispiece, folding map, ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original brick-red cloth with red lettering to upper board and spine, rare original dust-jacket with correct price of 10.s 6d., showing a photo of the titular car and caravan, with a couple of small tears and chips to edges and fold creases along spine and panels, cloth a little rubbed, a very good copy; x, 190 pp.
D.U.R. (as she was often known) was a prolific author as well as being a well-known Yorkshire socialite. This trip to South Africa was somewhat of a honeymoon with her second husband Noel McGrigor-Phillips: in fact they travelled almost continuously from 1932 until the outbreak of the war in 1939. They toured Cape Town and then went through the West Cape, journeyed along the coat of the East Cape, past Transkei and Thembuland, through Natal, ending in the Valley of a Thousand Hills where D.U.R. caught malaria.
First edition; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); 15 plates including frontispiece, folding map, ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original brick-red cloth with red lettering to upper board and spine, rare original dust-jacket with correct price of 10.s 6d., showing a photo of the titular car and caravan, with a couple of small tears and chips to edges and fold creases along spine and panels, cloth a little rubbed, a very good copy; x, 190 pp.
