Die Moormansgat en Ander Verhalende en Natuurverse - Leipoldt, C. Louis

Leipoldt died shortly after the war of a heart complaint caused by rheumatic fever which he had contracted at the age of seven. The casket containing his ashes was interred at the entrance of a cave surrounded by boulders in the rocky country of the Pakhuispas near Clanwilliam, that countryside which he had loved so deeply, a short distance from the Clanwilliam-Calvinia road near Kliphuis. It is a picturesque part of the country where he roamed as a child. After his death three volumes of his poems were published: Die moormansgat en ander verhalende en natuurverse (Cape Town, 1948); Gesnde skaduwees (Cape Town, 1949) which contained poems written during the period 1910 to 1947; and The ballad of Dick King and other poems (Cape Town, 1949), Leipoldts only volume of English poems.

Hardcover. Afrikaans. Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel. 1948. Good condition in blue boards with tatty dw with paper loss to top in protective plastic. Book No: 2504721