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This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of stories, essays and plays published in the Golden City's centenary year, thirty five years after Bosman's premature death, amply demonstrates how much the city meant to him and how well he documented his Johannesburg experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Human \u0026 Rousseau Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41377812676758,"sku":"Bosman's Johannesburg By Stephen Gray","price":210.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/products\/20220123_180336.jpg?v=1643277347"},{"product_id":"herman-charles-bosman-between-the-lines-by-valerie-rosenberg","title":"Herman Charles Bosman - Between the Lines by Valerie Rosenberg","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerman Charles Bosman - Between the Lines by Valerie Rosenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover with DJ\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2005 (Struik)\u003cbr\u003ePages: 261\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1770071636\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: As new. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has some very, very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValerie Rosenberg examines the complex genius that was Herman Charles Bosman in a fresh and sometimes controversial light in this exposé of his work and private life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho can deny the brilliance in creating a character such as Oom Schalk Lourens and the evocative tales of the Marico bushveld? Or the chilling observations in his autobiographical Cold Stone Jug? 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The wraps have some very, very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJurie Steyn het 'n probleem. Nie net moet hy 'n bestaan probeer voer uit boerdery in die Marico nie, maar boonop dien sy voorkamer as die Drogevlei-poskantoor – en Jurie as die posmeester. \"Tussen posorders en bloutong weet ek nie watter werk die ergste is nie. Ek moet wa-ghries op my muilkar smeer en seelwas op die possak sit. Partykeer raak ek deurmekaar. Eendag gaan ek nog 'n inkomsteseel op my hotkantmuil plak en die Bekkersdal-possak met 'n halfmaan en 'n streep brandmerk. Dan sal daar moeilikheid wees,\" se Jurie. \"Met my hotmuil, bedoel ek.\" Elke week kom die halfdowe Oupa Bekker, At Naude (wat 'n draadloos besit), buurman Gysbert van Tonder, die berese Johnny Coen, wat eens op 'n tyd 'n railway shunter op Ottoshoop was, en ander kleurryke karakters in Jurie Steyn se voorkamer bymekaar om te wag vir die Goewermentlorrie van Bekkersdal, wat hul pos en melkkanne moet bring. Sake van die dag word druk bespreek, en die gesprekke waartoe dit lei, is gewoonlik skreeusnaaks. Herman Charles Bosman het in die laaste 18 maande van sy lewe sowat 80 stories vir die reeks In the Voorkamer in die nuusblad The Forum geskryf. Bosman het dit self bestempel as die beste werk wat hy ooit gelewer het. 'n Bekkersdal-marathon en ander voorkamerstories volg op die sukses van In die withaak se skadu, die eerste Afrikaanse versameling Oom Schalk Lourens-stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suiderkruis Boeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48071265124655,"sku":"'n Bekkersdal-marathon en ander Voorkamerstories by Herman Charles Bosman","price":120.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/files\/20231117_154608.jpg?v=1700239223"},{"product_id":"bosman-at-his-best-a-selection-from-the-writings-of-herman-charles-bosman","title":"Bosman At His Best- A Selection from the writings of Herman Charles Bosman","description":"\u003cp\u003eBosman At His Best- A Selection from the writings of Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Human \u0026amp; Rousseau, Cape Town and Pretoria, 1995\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: Very Good +. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some very slight\/limited signs of wear and the book pages are clean, intact and the corners and spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA CHOICE OF STORIES AND SKETCHES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Charles Bosman will be remembered as one of South Africa’s foremost short story writers, a writer of superb skill in characterisation, narration and command of language. His first collection of short stories, Mafikeng Road, has already assumed the stature of a South African classic and is together with the posthumous collection, Unto Dust, cherished by all admirers of great humorous writing. Of these stories, most of which are narrated by oom Schalk Lourens, the simple old Boer from the Marico District, who is really the embodiment of sly ambiguity, Roy Campell said in a letter to the author: This is just to say that I think your stories in Mafeking Road are the best that ever came out of South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume includes four hitherto unpublished Schalk Lourens stories as well as a selection from the above two highly praised collections. 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The wraps have some very slight\/limited signs of wear and the book pages are clean, intact and the corners and spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecifically put together for the centenary of the Anglo-Boer South African War, this collection gathers together all the stories Bosman wrote about the war, from the famous \"Mafeking Road\" and \"The Rooinek\", to the less well-known but equally incisive \"The Traitor's Wife\" and \"Peaches Ripening in the Sun.\" Narrated principally by Oom Schalk Lourens, these eleven tales capture Bosman's humorous and empathetic - yet unillusioned - view of this watershed event in South African history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Human \u0026 Rousseau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48071413399855,"sku":"The Rooinek and other Boer War Stories by Bosman, Herman Charles","price":100.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/files\/20231117_154551.jpg?v=1700241158"},{"product_id":"mafeking-road-herman-charles-bosman","title":"Mafeking Road - Herman Charles Bosman","description":"\u003cp\u003eMafeking Road - Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, ISBN 9781920608903\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Suiderkruis Boeke-, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very Good+. The original picture laminated boards without a DJ as publisized are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. The book pages are clean and clear and the binding sturdy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear- sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District. 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Here are the sounds and smells of the platteland, the rough voices, the open skies.Compelled by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the Western Transvaal, his wildness, subtlety, defiance and -playful dreaming caper through the pages……\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHerman Charles Bosman (1905 – October 14, 1951) was a South African writer and journalist who became famous for capturing the rhythms of backveld Afrikaans speech even though he wrote in English. He is widely regarded as the greatest short story writer to come out of South Africa. Many of his stories have a sting in the tail. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe was born at Kuilsrivier, near Cape Town. While still young, his family moved to Johannesburg where he went to school at Jeppe Boys High School in Kensington. He was a contributor to the school magazine. 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This book is in an a very good condition. The wraps have some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGathered here for the first time, a set of Bosman's early writings, ranging from the humorous squibs he wrote as a 16-year-old schoolboy for 'The Sunday Times' through to his provocative, experimental short pieces of the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Human \u0026 Rousseau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52100827676975,"sku":"Young Bosman - Herman Charles Bosman - The anniverary edition.","price":85.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/files\/20251204_122107.jpg?v=1765299926"},{"product_id":"life-sentence-a-biography-of-herman-charles-bosman-author-stephen-gray","title":"Life Sentence: A Biography of Herman Charles Bosman Author: Stephen Gray","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; 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The text block binding is flawless, the pages are clean, bright white, and entirely free of user highlighting, name stamps, or dealer markups.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eStephen Gray’s \u003ci\u003eLife Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking, definitive biographical study that peels back the mythos surrounding Herman Charles Bosman. Moving chronologically through Bosman's dramatic life, Gray illuminates the shocking 1926 murder of his stepbrother, his subsequent death-row sentence at Pretoria Central Prison, his exile years in Europe, and his chaotic bohemian lifestyle back in Johannesburg. Utilizing newly discovered private documents, this text bridges the gap between Bosman's gentle, humorous fictional world of Marico and his deeply troubled, aggressive personal reality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAuthor Profile: Stephen Gray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eStephen Gray (1941–2020) was an eminent South African writer, poet, literary historian, and professor of English at Rand Afrikaans University. A passionate advocate for local literary heritage, Gray dedicated decades to recovering lost manuscripts and writing definitive histories of iconic local figures like Bosman, Schreiner, and Richard Rive, ensuring their preservation in the global academic canon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eherman charles bosman biography, stephen gray life sentence, isbn 079814484x, human rousseau 2005, rare books on bosman, south african literary biographies, used collectible book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Human \u0026amp; Rousseau, Cape Town \/ Pretoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58567753269551,"sku":"Life Sentence: A Biography of Herman Charles Bosman Author: Stephen Gray","price":225.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/files\/herman-charles-bosman-biography-stephen-gray.jpg?v=1790754855"},{"product_id":"a-bosman-treasury-herman-charles-bosman-1991","title":"A Bosman Treasury by Herman Charles Bosman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Bosman Treasury (Illustrated Hardcover Anthology in Dust Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Lionel Abrahams-Edited Selection of South Africa's Greatest Short-Story Writer, Illustrated by Ian Lusted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e A Bosman Treasury\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEditor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lionel Abrahams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Human \u0026amp; Rousseau, Cape Town ; Johannesburg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1991\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780798128308\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0798128305\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e Published 1991. Compiled and prefaced by Lionel Abrahams, with illustrations by Ian Lusted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's brown cloth boards with an illustrated colour dust jacket, printed front and back with Ian Lusted artwork.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Large octavo hardcover, 304 pages. With a section of colour plates and pen illustrations by Ian Lusted throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The plain brown cloth boards are clean, with a small white spot near the top of the front board and slight bumping along the lower edge. The spine is sound and square.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The text pages are clean, cream coloured and tight, with no foxing or markings. The binding is firm. A colour plate section is present.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. The illustrated, glossy jacket is bright, with light chipping to the head of the spine and a small nick at the top corner of the front flap. The remaining edges and corners are fairly neat. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Bosman Treasury gathers stories, essays and poems by Herman Charles Bosman, compiled and introduced by Lionel Abrahams, who knew Bosman and edited several volumes of his work. It was published in Cape Town and Johannesburg by Human \u0026amp; Rousseau in 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is illustrated in pastel and pencil by Ian Lusted, whose colour plates and pen drawings accompany the text and give the volume a distinctly visual character among Bosman editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBosman is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer, and Abrahams is largely credited with building his posthumous reputation. This anthology offers an attractive, illustrated entry point to his writing and suits both readers and collectors of South African literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer. He took his degree in education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, but his teaching career ended abruptly when he shot and killed his stepbrother. Sentenced to death, he had the sentence commuted to ten years, of which he served four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis stories were first collected in Mafeking Road (1947), followed by the prison sketches of Cold Stone Jug (1949). His first novel, Jacaranda in the Night, appeared in 1947. Posthumous collections include Unto Dust (1963), Jurie Steyn's Post Office (1971) and A Bekkersdal Marathon (1971). 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This copy is from the publisher's uniform edition of Bosman titles, a handsome and readable edition of one of the cornerstones of South African short fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Herman Charles Bosman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerman Charles Bosman (1905-1951) was born at Kuils River near Cape Town and is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer. In 1926 he shot and killed his stepbrother; his death sentence was commuted to ten years, of which he served four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis stories were first collected in Mafeking Road (1947), and he drew on his prison years for Cold Stone Jug (1949), a collection of sardonic, comic prison sketches. Much of his remaining work, including Unto Dust, Jurie Steyn's Post Office and A Bekkersdal Marathon, appeared after his death. 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