Qauqaua A San folk story from Botswana
Qauqaua
A San folk story from Botswana
Told by Coex’ae Qgam
Published by The Artists’ Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1994
£295
62/100, limited edition, landscape 4to. (265x290x20mm.), full brown leather, eleven hand printed aluminium plate lithographs, linocuts in the text, 250gsm white Arches paper, slight blooming occasionally on the leather binding, uncut deckle edges, front board blind tooled with lettering and motif, spine with blind tooled lettering, very good.
Full page coloured illustrations by artists of the Kuru Art Project – Thamae Setshogo, Coex’ae Qgam, Qwaa Mangana, Cgose Ncoxo, Coex’ae Bob, and Nxabe Eland. Linocuts by Sobe Sobe, Thamae Kaashe and Qhaeqhao Moses, all hand printed at the Artists’ Press Johannesburg, hand bound by Johan Maree Cape Town.
ms letter from the printer to a customer loosely laid in.
The word “Qauqaua” means something beautiful and shiny. In this context an unusual, smooth large round stone, and in this folk tale, the body of Qauqaua.
A dual language text – the first book to be published in Naro and English.