A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town
Rare and modern books
Ramphele, Mamphela, Roger Meintjes
David Philip,
1993
A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town
Rare and modern books
Ramphele, Mamphela, Roger Meintjes
David Philip,
1993
10.50 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- 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
- False
- State of preservation
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
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.
