Non-Fiction is the heart of the Midlands Books collection and by far our largest and deepest section, with thousands of titles covering the real world in all its detail. If you read to learn, to research or to collect, this is where you will spend your time. Our particular strength is South African and Africana material, but the range runs far wider, from natural history and military history to biography, religion and transport.
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Many of these titles are scarce, out of print or collectible, and some are genuinely rare. Every book is a real book from our shelves in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, with its actual condition described honestly, so you know exactly what you are getting. We pack properly and ship across South Africa and worldwide.
We are always buying good non-fiction, Africana and specialist libraries, so if you have a collection to sell or value, send co-owner Rob a few photos on WhatsApp, or browse the shelves below and see what you find.
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MG The Illustrated Catalogue of Spares – The seventh edition of the parts catalogue issued by Sports & Vintage Motors of Shrewsbury, covering the pre-war MGs from the M-type Midget to the…

What We Knew – Eric Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband’s acclaimed oral history of Nazi Germany, drawing on interviews and surveys with Jewish survivors and ordinary Germans to ask what people knew of…

Huggins of Rhodesia – L. H. Gann and Michael Gelfand’s 1964 first edition biography of Sir Godfrey Huggins, Lord Malvern, the surgeon who became Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and of the…

Tuning and Maintenance of M.G.s – Philip H. Smith’s classic guide to overhauling and tuning the overhead-cam and push-rod M.G.s, from the P-type through the TA, TC and TD, published by G.…

BRM – The 1962 Cassell first edition of Raymond Mays and Peter Roberts’ history of the British Racing Motors team, in green cloth with the striking Vic Berris engine-cutaway dust jacket. Very…

Wheels to Fortune – James Leasor’s 1954 first edition biography of William Morris, Viscount Nuffield, the Oxford cycle repairer who founded Morris Motors, built up M.G. and Wolseley and gave away a…

Turn Left – The Riffs Have Risen – A. Cameron Gilg’s account of driving from England to Cape Town in a baby car, edited by Barry Cockcroft and first published by the…

The Motorist’s Weekend Book – A 1960 first edition hardcover from B. T. Batsford, London, edited by Michael Frostick and Anthony Harding. Essays on everything from Bugatti and Le Mans to rallying,…

Trans-African Highways – The 1949 first edition of the Automobile Association of South Africa’s route book of the main trunk roads of Africa, with the AA’s own maps and sketch maps and…

The Modern Motor Car – A scarce Art Deco promotional booklet issued by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd in London around 1933, with striking cover photographs by Vogue photographer Maurice Beck and colour…

The Poetical Works of George Herbert – An 1857 illustrated edition published by James Nisbet and Co., London, with an engraved ivy-border title and illustrations designed by Birket Foster, John Clayton and…

The Birds of Natal and Zululand – The 1964 Oliver & Boyd first edition of P. A. Clancey’s classic regional avifauna, written while he was Director of the Durban Museum. Illustrated with…

Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities – Volume II of the series researched by the South African Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth, published in Johannesburg in 2004. A thick, illustrated large-format…

Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities – Volume III of the series researched by the South African Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth, published in Johannesburg in 2007. A thick, illustrated large-format…

The Connolly Tarot – All three of Eileen Connolly’s Tarot handbooks offered together as a set: the Apprentice (Volume I, revised edition), the Journeyman (Volume II, 1987 Newcastle first edition) and the…

The Diary of Iris Vaughan – A 1979 Howard Timmins hardcover reprint of this South African diary, first published in 1958. Bound in clean brown cloth and kept in its original illustrated…

Oxford Latin Course – The complete four-volume set of Maurice Balme and James Morwood's well-known Latin course, comprising the Full Colour Second Edition of Parts I, II and III together with the…

Legio Mariae – The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary in Korean, translated by the Senatus of Korea and published in Seoul by the Catholic Publishing House. This is the 2008…

Kokugyo no Saiten – The 1978 commemorative book of the landmark 10th All Japan Combined Nishikigoi Show, published by Tack Imaging. 195 pages recording the year's champion koi in colour with full…

Kokugyo no Saiten – The 1983 deluxe commemorative book of the 15th All Japan Combined Nishikigoi Show, compiled by the All Japan Nishikigoi Dealers Association. A near fine copy in decorative floral…
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