Home Life on an Ostrich Farm

vi, 288pp. Monochrome plate frontis plus 7 further plates containing nine monochrome illustrations. Olive green/brown cloth boards with decorative paper panel on-lays on front, rear and backstrip, rubbed & beginning to fray at head and heel of spine. All leaves uncut. Deep green endpapers, previous owner's inscription on fpdep. Tissue guarded frontis, a little rusted and creased on one corner. Minor staining on endpapers and occassional spotting. Distinct but correctable lean. Tight, attractive volume. 8vo. Annie Martin's recollections of running an Ostrich Farm in Karroo, South Africa with her husband in the 1880s. Much material on Ostrich farming, and Meerkats, as well as family and local anecdotes.