{"product_id":"fa-venter-lande-series-four-book-set-1985","title":"Four-Volume F.A. Venter Lande-Series Set by F. A. Venter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour-Volume F.A. Venter Lande-Series Set \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe F.A. Venter Lande-Series: Four Afrikaans Great Trek Novels Offered Together as a Series\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 Four-Volume F.A. Venter Lande-Series Set\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e F. A. Venter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tafelberg-Uitgewers, Kaapstad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1985\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780624012146\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0624023133\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e Offered as a four-book series. Gelofteland: Eerste sagtebanduitgawe 1985 (first published 1966), Sewende druk 1981 as printed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gelofteland: original illustrated card wrappers, perfect bound. Series also includes hardcovers: Geknelde Land (grey cloth, school edition), Bedoelde Land (brown boards with dust jacket) and Offerland (boards with dust jacket).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Four volumes. Gelofteland is a trade-sized softcover; the other three are hardcovers. Endpaper maps in Geknelde Land and Offerland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Afrikaans\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 Good (G)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Covers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gelofteland, the only softcover, has blue, black and brown illustrated wrappers with a creased spine and lightly rubbed edges. Geknelde Land is in grey cloth boards, a school edition. Bedoelde Land is in brown boards, and Offerland in boards. Bedoelde Land and Offerland retain their dust jackets, and Offerland's jacket is chipped at the head and corners. Geknelde Land is without a jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gelofteland has a tight, clean text block with toned page edges; the title page shows faint foxing and a small crease. Offerland carries a pencil arrow in the margin and a library-style stamp. Geknelde Land has staining to the map endpaper, tape marks and a pencil arrow. Overall the set reads as Good to Very Good.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Offerland bears a blue library-style stamp ('Uitreikingsetiket', 'Naam van leerling', 1976) and pencil notes on the jacket flap. A pencil arrow appears on a page of Geknelde Land. No other ownership marks are evident.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bedoelde Land and Offerland have dust jackets, protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover; Offerland's jacket is chipped at the head and corners. Gelofteland is a softcover issued without a jacket Geknelde Land is without a jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis four-book set brings together F.A. Venter's Afrikaans Great Trek novels: Geknelde Land, Offerland, Gelofteland and Bedoelde Land. It is offered as a series, the F.A. Venter Lande-Series. The novels follow the Dreyer family through the Great Trek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Gelofteland, Rudolf Dreyer, his wife Hendriena and their community debate whether to leave their farm Grensplaas, setting the human cost of the decision against the wider migration of the Voortrekkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether the volumes offer collectors of Afrikaans literature and Afrikaner heritage a complete run of one of the best-known Trek fictions, in mixed formats: one softcover, two jacketed hardcovers and a school-edition cloth volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: F. A. Venter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrans A. Venter was born in Hopetown on 27 November 1916 and died on 8 July 1997. He studied at Stellenbosch and began a career in journalism in 1938. 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