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Howard Timmins, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are rubbed and marked.A little tanning.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Howard Timmins & George Allen-Unwin Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Fair. The jacket is worn and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Light tanning.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

(Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, [1948]). 8vo; original pale grey cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; endpaper map; pp. 187; plates. Dustwrapper a little spotted, and edgeworn, with slight loss to lower panel; some foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. 'The author was for many years the Mining Editor of the Johannesburg Star, and in this book he tells the story of Odendaalsrust and the Free State gold mines. The book should prove of more than ordinary interest to those interested not only in shares but in the future of South Africa, because, as Mr. Carleton Jones states in his preface: "The book presents a chronicle of one of the most astonishing episodes in South Africa's rich story of gold-mining enterprises, and in addition an effort has been made to set Free State developments in what is perhaps their true perspective." ' .

Howard B. Timmins Pty Ltd . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. With and Introduction by G. Carleton Jones. No date stated, c1947. Publication of 187 pages. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London 1948 Allen Unwin. Gold mining around Johannesburg, South Africa. Hardcover. Octavo,187pp., photo illustrations, end paper maps, cloth. Good, cover has slight bit of staining and is slightly warped due to moisture, half-inch tear along top edge outer hinge. .

Cape Town : Timmins for George Allen-Unwin, London, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : pages 187 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 10 plates. Notes : Maps on end-papers. Subjects : Gold mines and mining South Africa Odendaalsrus. Odendaalsrus (South Africa).

Cloth covered boards, Library stamps have been removed, ex libris cover on ffep, xiii intro, 187 pp incl index, b+w photo, first edition, covered in plastic

Timmins. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The jacket is a bit marked and worn. A little white-out. Some tanning. Inscribed by the author to J P Leslie. A handwritten card (laid in) that is a copy of an entry from "Who's Who of Southern Africa 1959", explains who the recipient was. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.