TITLE.................... ....: ASPEKTE VAN AFRIKAANSE LITERATUUR
SUBTITLE..................:
AUTHOR................. ..: DR.F.E.J.MALHERBE
PUBLISHER...............:NASIONALE PERS, KAAPSTAD
DATE & EDITION.......:1940, assumed 1st
COVER SIZE (mm)....: 150 x 240
CONDITION...............:
DUST JACKET...........: no
COVERS.....................: original publishers green cloth covered boards with title, age soiling with slight wear to edges, corners bumped
SPINE.........................: with title, slight wear to extremities, sunned
END & FLY PAPERS.: good
PAGES.......................: 211pp including index, generally bright & clean
BINDING....................: tight
PLATES & MAPS.......: photo portraits of several authors; Frontis port. of Langenhoven (opp. & adjacent pp have shading transferred from this plate). Other portraits incl. Sangiro, D.F. Malherbe, C.M. van den Heever, Jochem van Bruggen, Leipoldt, Totius, Eugene Marais, W.E.G. Louw &c &c.
INSCRIPTIONS..........:owners name & place & date inside front cover, name on front fly, title page, front page.
SYNOPSIS, BLURB...: Transl: 'Aspects of Afrikaans Literature: Studies of Important works', written when Malherbe was Professor of Nederlands & Afrikaans at the Univ. of Stellenbosch.
Lovely title. Internally very good (apart from inscriptions). Externally is not so bad.