Posted by Russell Barnes on September 15, 1999 at 01:16:08 from proxy.dbn.mweb.co.za:
Greetings after a break, everyone!
I'm just looking for an e-mail address to Jonathan Cape Ltd - if they're the ones - as I have a problem they can probably rectify.
I have all the SA books (hard cover), of course, and except for a recent purchase have never had any of the gorgeous covers that come with the books.
Now I wonder if JC Ltd are able to re-direct me in such a way that I may purchase *just the covers!* for eleven SA books, with the exception being "Peter Duck", bought new in 1992. (It took three months to arrive from England after I placed the order here in little South Africa!).
As a kid holidaying in Cape Town at my grandparents' home I first saw the books, and the rest is history . . . My mother only had six, which all came to me after my grandfather passed away a few years later and the home was sold. PM, for example, is the original first impression. But none had covers.
My other gran very kindly looked out for the rest at secondhand stalls (still no covers), and a couple of presents completed the collection.
I've always had this green row of books bar PM (dark blue) on my shelves, and would be absolutely pinching myself if I could finally get around to just purchasing (excuse the split infinitive, AR purists) *the covers themselves*, which always look so good in a library.
Can anybody re-direct me, or supply me with information, please?
PS - SA and PP are starting to fall apart after some sixty-odd years, but you'll not part them from me!