Like Diamond Blazing

London: Robert Hale, 1967

8vo, 206pp, hardcover binding with dust jacket, silver lettering to spine. With several fine monochrome plates, collated and complete.

Lawrence George Green (1900 – 1972) was a South African journalist and writer. Eschewing any grandiose view of his literature and his way of life, he wrote for the layman and general reading entertainment as a raconteur. As such his writings, though well populated with researched fact through his wide travels and many hours of research in the South African and British archives, do not constitute in any strict sense historical or academic reference works. Nevertheless, he remains frequently cited as a recorder of little remembered or noted fact of some historical or cultural significance in the southern African domain. (wikipedia.com)

Condition: Good-very good. Some rubbing, edgewear and small closed tears to dust jacket, dust jacket has been price-clipped, and covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve after photos were taken. Slight shelfwear to top and tail of spine. Bottom corner of front board has wear. Slight yellowing to endpapers and pastedowns. Light offsetting to pages facing some of the plates. Text otherwise clean. Well bound.