THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES (1951)

First edition with a thorough review of the economics, productivity, etc. of mining companies operating on the Witwatersrand (of which there were a large number), following brief introductory section. With large folding map of the Witwatersrand Gold Field.

Dark gilt-lettered cloth; Text in English; Collation complete - Title page, 307 pages, with large folding map of the Witwatersrand Gold Field, a few text graphs, slipped in author's flier with details of 2 similar books and order form; Binding is strong, tight and firm, extremities with minor bumping, spine very sunned, covers little faded. Content/text block clear and very bright, no foxing and markings throughout. Front and rear pastedown and free endpapers age tanned. Folding tables present, whole and well preserved. Final leaf is pasted to verso of last page apparently as issued. A sound copy.

Paul Klempner was mining engineer who wrote a column on gold shares for the Financial Times. He acquired a small company manufacturing spares for earth moving equipment in his middle years which became our main source of income. In his youth in Austria he had dreamed of training as an architect. In 1936 he emigrated to South Africa where he completed his apprenticeship in the gold mines, then set up his consultancy in Johannesburg.

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