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Publisher's pictorial cloth binding depicting the six willows at Harmony.
xv + 376pp + 23pp (publisher's catalogue) at rear. Frontispiece of the writer + 9 plates.
Binding sound with no staining or discolouration to the cloth and no fading of the cover illustration. Endpapers with tape ghosts. Contents clean.
A classic Anglo-Boer War account of how the author and her mother served as spies and couriers during the war. The occupying British forces at Pretoria viewed civilian women as harmless and left them largely undisturbed. This served as the perfect cover for Brandt to relay messages, written in invisible ink made from lemon juice, to the Boer commanders, providing them with valuable intelligence on the movements of British troops.
Rather interestingly, this is an early title published by Mills and Boon, which later became world renowned as a publishing house for romantic softcover fiction.
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo.
- Name: Rare Paper
- Contact Person: Armandt Marais
- Country: South Africa
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