Die Siel van die Mier [1938 Hardeband] - Eugene N. Marais [GRATIS 1973 The Soul of the White Ant]

Titel:  Die Siel van die Mier
Skrywer:  Eugene Nielen Marais
Uitgewer:  Pretoria J.L. van Schaik, 1938.
Uitgawe/Formaat:  Boek : Afrikaans : Tweede druk
Beskrywing:  182 p. front., illus., plates 20 cm.

Hardeband boek in baie goeie toestand.  Het wel Stofomslag wat in slegte toestand is.  Slegs dele van die stofomslag bestaan nog, wat ingesluit word.  Die boek word egter verkoop as sonder omslag.  2de Uitgawe.

Hierdie is 'n baie skaars kopie - perfek vir die versamelaar.  Die ligte-bruin materiaal-omslag is in baie goeie toestand.  Die binding is uitsonderlik.  Die vorige eienaar se naam is voorin geskryf.  Paar potlood aantekeninge in die kantlyne.  Die res van die boek is in uitstekende toestand en 'n hoogs versamelbare eksemplaar.

GRATIS ingesluit in u aankope:  1973 Penguin sagteband uitgawe "The Soul of the White Ant".

Dust Cover Front Inside Flap - NO FRONT COVER OF DUST JACKET

Dust Cover Back and Inside Flap with part of Spine

As well as being rare and collectable, this book, in its original Afrikaans, is famous for its foreword, in which Eugene Marais summarises the proven charge that the noted Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck had plagiarised his work. Maeterlinck had published, originally in French but also in English "The life of the white ant" as his own research. The substance of Marais's studies had first appeared in South African publications including "The Star" and "Huisgenoot" well before this time and had apparently found their way to Maeterlinck.

Marais' "Die Siel van die Mier" was published shortly after the leading English psychological journal "Psyche" had concluded in its Vol XIII of 1933 that "There cannot be any doubt whatever about Eugene Marais' priority." Marais had submitted the facts to the journal so that if he were to publish his work in book form he would not himself be accused of plagiarising Maeterlinck, who was then at the height of his reputation.

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