Die beste van Doc Immelman
Die beste van Doc Immelman (Afrikaans First Edition Inscribed Collection)
Sixteen Hand-Picked Namibian Hunting-Veld Stories by the So-Called Hemingway of Namibia
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Die beste van Doc Immelman
- Publisher: J.P. van der Walt, Pretoria
- Publication Date: 1994
- ISBN-13: 9780799319958
- ISBN-10: 0799319953
- Edition Details: First Edition (Eerste druk), 1994. Carries a gift inscription dated Christmas 1998 from a previous owner.
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated hardcover with pictorial printed boards, orange lettering to the spine. Issued without a separate dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Medium octavo hardcover. Title page with a line drawing of a kudu and landscape.
- Language: Afrikaans
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Boards: Dark grey-olive pictorial boards with an illustrated front panel. The spine is clean with bright orange lettering. Light rubbing and slight wear to the edges and corners, in keeping with a lightly handled second-hand copy.
- Interior: The title and copyright pages are clean and bright, with no foxing. The binding is tight. A small Scrabble-style letter 'O' sticker is affixed to the corner of the inscribed flyleaf.
- Provenance: Handwritten Afrikaans gift inscription on the flyleaf: "Dankie vir alles wat pa al vir my gedoen ('n Baie Geseende Kersfees. 1998. Van: Dani)".
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Die beste van Doc Immelman, published by J.P. van der Walt in Pretoria in 1994, gathers sixteen short stories that the author selected himself from his many years of writing. It is, in effect, Immelman's own choice of his best work.
The stories are set largely in Namibia and the hunting veld, and are peopled with colourful characters: adventurers, diamond swindlers, poachers and stock thieves, alongside tales of wild animals and the hunt. They capture a distinctive South West African storytelling tradition in Afrikaans.
A pleasing copy for collectors of Afrikaans fiction, Namibiana and hunting literature, and a good way into one of the best-known Suidwes writers.
Author Profile: Doc Immelman
Doc Immelman (Daniel Ferdinand Immelman, 1928-2013) was born in Goodwood, Cape Town, and died in Windhoek. He is regarded as one of the leading Afrikaans Suidwes writers, alongside Christiaan Bakkes and Piet van Rooyen, and has often been called the Hemingway of Namibia.
His first short story appeared in Huisgenoot in 1954 and his first book, Verhale uit Suidwes, followed in 1958. Among his other titles are Die bul van Kashimbo, Kurt Mauser, Die buffeljagter, Blits and Die beestrek.
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