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ENVIRONS OF THE GOLDEN CITY AND PRETORIA.
by Macmillan, Allister. (Ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Bookplate ffep. re-cased with original boards and spine. contents excellent but with some foxing to ff at each end. Boards show
- Seller
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Bathurst, South Africa
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About This Item
Cape Times 1937 1st edition.. Bookplate ffep. re-cased with original boards and spine. contents excellent but with some foxing to ff at each end. Boards show damp damage, dib to spine. A sound reference copy.. Brown imitation leather boards. aeg. 414pp illustrated sepia photographs. folio. Covers the early Transvaal industrial towns from Pretoria to Vereeniging and from Krugersdorp to Witbank & Middelburg. Articles on the different locales by writers such as Eric Rosenthal, Hedley Chilvers, Vere Stent, & more. The format is a history and outline of each town followed by a review of commercial establishments. Illustrated with many photographs.
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- Bookseller
- Fables Bookshop
(ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21621
- Title
- ENVIRONS OF THE GOLDEN CITY AND PRETORIA.
- Author
- Macmillan, Allister. (Ed)
- Book Condition
- Used - Bookplate ffep. re-cased with original boards and spine. contents excellent but with some foxing to ff at each end. Boards show
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cape Times 1937 1st edition.
- Keywords
- pretoria transvaal germiston, primrose boksburg benoni brakpan springs nigel heidelberg roodepoort maraisburg florida krugersdorp randfontein vereeniging witbank middelburg pretoria historical commercial descriptive industrial south southern africa africa
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Bathurst
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We specialise in out-of-print items relating to Africa. Select general stock for passers-by and casual browsers.
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