1. Ball, W. Valentine.

The Law of Libel as affecting Newspapers and Journalists.

London, Stevens and Sons, 1912. Octavo. XIII, 165 pages. Original Hardcover (original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Bumped corners. Slightly damaged spine. Good condition with some signs of external wear. From the library of irish independent politician and solicitor Jasper Travers Wolfe of Skibbereen. Name of Jasper Wolfe on front free endpaper.

2. Cudlipp, Hugh.

Publish And Be Damned ! The Astonishing Story of The Daily Mirror.

London, Andrew Dakers Limited, 1953. 14 x 22cm. (11), 292 pages, with black and white photograph plates and illustrations. Original hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Some mild signs of wear to boards and spine, including stains and bumping. Internally in very good condition.

3. Fisk, Robert.

The Great War for Civilisation. The Conquest of the Middle East.

London, Fourth Estate, 2005. 23,8 cm x 16 cm. 1366 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition. Rare! Out of print.

4. Joya, Mock.

Mock Joya’s Things Japanese.

Sixth Edition. Tokyo, Tokyo News Service Limited, 1971. 15.5 cm x 17.5 cm. XXI, 745 pages. Illustrated throughout with a few black-and-white vignettes. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Knight, E.F.

Letters from the Sudan. By the special correspondent of “The Times”. With Illustrations and Plans. Reprinted from “The Times” of April to October, 1896.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1897. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, 325 pages. Twelve illustrations. Three fold-out maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with signs of external wear. Corners of board bumped and rubbed. Spine carries library marking. Foxing to deckled edges. Front pastedown carries ex-libris ‘Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis’ of Sydney Grammar School (″Discarded”). Book stamp on half-title page. Ex-libris stamp on title page. Beautiful, tiny little bookshop-sign to endpapper: “Tyrrell’s Bookshop – 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, Australia”.

6. Norris-Newman, Charles L.

In Zululand With The British Throughout the War of 1879.

London, W. H. Allen 1880. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 343 pages. Illustrated throughout with portraits. Includes the vintage photograph of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (including tissue-guard), 3 fold-out plans. With the often missing large fold-out Military Map of Zulu Land and Adjacent Parts of Natal and Transvaal. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design on front board. First layer, with frontispiece, slightly detached. Otherwise in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean, with very minor spotting near front. Ink markings to first page of first chapter. Bookplate / Exlibris of Davenport House (Bridgnorth) to front pastedown with the printed motto “Audentes Fortuna Junat”. Extremely rare, rather scarce and even scarcer with the large folding-map included !

7. [O’Connor, T.P.] Fyfe, Hamilton.

T.P. O’Connor.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1934. 14.5 x 22.5cm. 351 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Some signs of wear to boards and spine, otherwise in very good condition.

8. [South Africa – From Union to Rainbow Nation].

A Collection of Thirty [30] publications related to the evolution of South Africa – from Boer republics, Apartheid to the post-Mandela era. 1. Denis Beckett, Madibaland / 2. Gavin Bell, Somewhere Over The Rainbow / 3. Trewhella Cameron, Jan Smuts: An Illustrated Biography / 4. Justin Cartwright, Not Yet Home: A South African Journey / 5. Apollon Davidson, Cecil Rhodes and His Time / 6. Eugene de Kock, A Long Night’s Damage: Working for the Apartheid State / 7. John Fisher, Paul Kruger: His Life and Times / 8. Darrell Hall, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / 9. Pat Hopkins, Eccentric South Africa: A Celebration of Extraordinary People and Places / 10. Stanley Jackson, The Great Barnato / 11. Phyllis Scarnell Lean, One Man in his Time: A Pictorial Review of the Life of Jan Christian Smuts, May 24th 1870 – September 11th 1950 / 12. Rian Malan, My Traitor’s Heart / 13. Richard Mendelsohn, Sammy Marks: ‘The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal’ / 14. Mike Nicol, The Waiting Country: A South African Witness / 15. Ellen Palestrant, Johannesburg One Hundred: A Pictorial History / 16. Richard Rive, ‘Buckingham Palace’, District Six (2 copies) / 18. David Robbins, Driving South / 19. David Robbins, The 29th Parallel: A South African Journey / 20. Kevin Shillington, History of Southern Africa / 21. J.C. Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts / 22. Allister Sparks, Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa / 23. Allister Sparks, The Mind of South Africa: The Story of the Rise and Fall of Apartheid / 24. Allister Sparks, Tomorrow is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa’s Negotiated Revolution / 25. Lester Venter, When Mandela Goes: The Coming of South Africa’s Second Revolution / 26. René De Villiers and S. Brooke-Norris, The Story of the Rand Club / 27. John Wentzel, A View from The Ridge: Johannesburg Retrospect / 28. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Randlords: The Men who Made South Africa / 29. Zapiro, Dr Do-Little and the African Potato: Cartoons from Sowetan, Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times / 30. The Staff of Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, The Story of ‘Johnnies’ (1889-1964): A History of the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited.

London / Johannesburg / Moscow / And Others, Victor Gollanz / Penguin Books / Arrow / Progress Publishers / And Others, 1952 – 2002. 11 cm x 18 cm to 22 cm x 28.5 cm. Circa 7,800 pages. Numerous plates throughout volumes. 9 hardcovers (7 with dustjackets) and 21 softcovers with decorated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some internal browning to some volumes but most are clean and bright. Crack at hinge of front board near head of spine of ‘Sammy Marks’ Volume. Binding still firm and strong.

9. Steevens, G.W.

From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War. Edited by Vernon Blackburn.

First edition. Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. 13 x 19.5cm. (8), 180 pages, with a map of the Country round Ladysmith and a large fold-out map at the rear, illustrating the Seat of War in South Africa. Includes a 32 page publisher’s catalogue to rear. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition. Minor signs of external wear, including bumping to corner and small stain to front board. Front endpaper starting to tear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

10. The Insight Team of the Sunday Times.

The Yom Kippur War.

First Edition. London, Andre Deutsch, 1975. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. VIII, 514 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.