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Rare and modern books

Ramphele, Mamphela, Roger Meintjes

A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town

David Philip, 1993

10.50 €

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(Hyde, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1993
ISBN
086486227X
Place of printing
Cape Town
Author
Ramphele, Mamphela
Publishers
David Philip
Size
9.75 x 6.5 inches
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
South Africa, Transvaal, Hostels, Migrant Workers, Townships, Housing
Illustrator
Roger Meintjes
Binding description
Soft Cover
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very slightly tanned pages in a tight binding with bright slightly rubbed boards. 152pp. The author documents the life of the hostel dwellers of Cape Town, for whom a bed is literally a home for both themselves and their families. Well illustrated.