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Limpopo

Item date(s): 1965

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982)

Pages: 128pp
Size: 310mm
Inscription: Inscribed by the artist. See note.

Place publication: Pretoria, RSA
Publisher: J. L. Van Schalk, Ltd
Battiss bibliography 13

Additional notes:
First edition. Signed by the author, Sept, 1965.

Inscribed on the colophone page by the author in brown ink to Ronnie Watt;

To Ronnie

Yours very sincerely

Walter

24.10.79

Big Love [in Fook script]

in addition there are two watercolour drawings, the first above, and the second below, the inscription:

1. Three figures, the left and right in ocre with clouds and rain above. The central figure in red holding a bunch of flowers.

2. A flower on a stippled purple background.

With Ronnie Watt's bookplate.

A partially complete list of books by Walter Battiss appears on page 220 of Battiss edited by Karin Skawran & Michael Macnamara, Ad Donker, 1985.

Ref: SA/1599