Some Reminiscences
by Phillips, Lionel (author), and Maryna Fraser (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0868520942
- ISBN 13
- 9780868520940
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Craighall: Ad Donker, 1986) 0868520942. 8vo; original green boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 228, incl. index; black-and-white illustrations. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; faint price label mark to front free endpaper; trace of light foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. "Phillips wrote Some Reminiscences in London in 1924 during his last few months as chairman of The Central Mining & Investment Corporation, Limited; he was in his seventieth year. His official letter of resignation dated 31 December 1924, terminated a long career and intimate association with the South African diamond and gold industry. He had resolved to retire eventually to the Cape when he purchased Vergelegen in 1917 and so early in 1925 he sailed to South Africa, exactly fifty years after he first went to the country. ... Some Reminiscences reveals a man who was a keen observer and a shrewd commentator, and covers a wide range of events of historical, political, and economic importance. It also affords interesting glimpses of Phillips's personal pursuits, such as archaeology and reading." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10484
- Title
- Some Reminiscences
- Author
- Phillips, Lionel (author), and Maryna Fraser (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0868520942
- ISBN 13
- 9780868520940
- Publisher
- (Craighall: Ad Donker, 1986) 0868520942
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Transvaal. Johannesburg. Witwatersrand. Lionel Phillips. Jameson Raid. Wernher, Beit & Co. Gold Mining Transvaal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transvaal;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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