Bushveld Doctor - Leipoldt

1980 hardcover in good condition. Name in ink in front. Dust jacket slight shelfwear to edges. 259 pages. R26 postage in SA.          Bushveld Doctor is the closest C Louis Leipoldt came to an autobiography. It was written in English in the mid-1930's and accepted by Jonathan Cape himself, who published it in 1937 with hardly any changes to the typed manuscript he received - except in one aspect: :Leipoldt originally had named his work Bushveld Hakim, using the Arabic word for a 'physician' or 'wise man'. At the time Leipoldt was writing no fewer than four novels in English. The story of what happened to the printed copies of Bushveld Doctor is a tragic one; most of them were destroyed in a fire bombing over London early in the Second World War, and the subsequent paper shortages prevented reprinting. The few copies that found their way to South Africa have become collectors' items.