CJ Langenhoven (16 deels)

Skaduwees van Nasaret Loeloeraai Die wagtende wereld, 16 deels, complete, hardcovers, Tafelberg publishers, 1973, fifth edition, Afrikaans text, illustrated, apart from previous owner's name written to the front blank pages of volumes condition: as new.

Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (13 August 1873 15 July 1932), who published under his initials C.J. Langenhoven, was a South African poet who played a major role in the development of  Afrikaans literature and cultural history. He is regarded as one of the most prolific and most versatile Afrikaans writers still today. His Collected Works comprise 16 volumes. He is also fondly remembered and referred to for his quirky personality.

• Nelson Mandela recounts that in 1964 while in prison he read a book by Langenhoven called Shadows of Nazareth about the trial of Jesus Christ that deeply affected him. Mandela describes how in Langenhoven's book Pilate agreed to judge Jesus, then offered the public a choice that freed not Jesus but the zealot Barabbas, and then how he, Pilate, finally ordered Jesus brought into the Roman court. "He gazed upwards and his eyes seemed to pierce through the roof and to see right beyond the stars," wrote Langenhoven. "It became clear that in that courtroom authority was not in me as a judge, but was down below in the dock where the prisoner was."