Moleste op Keurboslaan by Theunis Krogh

Moleste op Keurboslaan (1949 Keurboslaan School Story in Pictorial Jacket)

A Keurboslaan Boys' Boarding School Story from the Classic Afrikaans Youth Series

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Moleste op Keurboslaan
• Author: Theunis Krogh
• Publisher: J. L. van Schaik, Beperk, Pretoria
• Publication Date: 1949
• ISBN: None Issued (Pre-ISBN Era)
• Edition Details: Published by J. L. van Schaik, Pretoria, 1949. Thirteenth title in the Keurboslaan-reeks.
• Binding: Hardcover in an illustrated pictorial dust jacket in blue, ochre and cream.
• Physical Format: Small octavo-sized hardcover.
• Language: Afrikaans

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Boards: The boards beneath the dust jacket are not described. The book is presented in its original pictorial jacket, protected by a clear cover.
• Interior: The paper is toned with slightly rough edges, consistent with age. The title page is clean, with no markings visible.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The pictorial jacket is toned, with creasing and a tear at the top of the front panel. There is chipping and wear to the spine ends and a split along the spine fold. The back panel shows light spotting and soiling. The jacket is protected in a clear Mylar sleeve. Grade: Good (G).

Synopsis & Historical Value

Moleste op Keurboslaan is a school story from the Keurboslaan series, published by J. L. van Schaik in Pretoria in 1949. The series is set at a boys' boarding school, and this volume is numbered as the thirteenth in the Keurboslaan-reeks. The jacket illustration shows a schoolboy beside a sand heap at a building site, with other figures running up behind him.

The Keurboslaan books are regarded as a major part of Afrikaans youth fiction, and the series has been discussed in scholarship as bound up with Afrikaner identity of its time. The books remained in print for decades and were reissued in later editions, so the 1949 van Schaik imprint is of interest to collectors who want an early copy of the series in its original jacket.

A collectible copy of Afrikaans boys' school fiction, with its original illustrated dust jacket present.

Author Profile: Theunis Krogh (Stella Blakemore)

Theunis Krogh was the pen name of Stella Blakemore (1906–1991), a South African writer of Afrikaans youth novels. The name came from her maternal grandfather, Theunis Johannes Krogh, undersecretary in the administration of President Paul Kruger's South African Republic.

Blakemore also wrote under other names, including Analize Biermann, Stella Owen and Diem Grimbeeck, and she created the Maasdorp school-for-girls stories, which began in 1932. The Keurboslaan series is her best-known work, and reviewers of the time were reportedly unaware that its author was a woman.

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