436 pages, brown cloth, gilt titling on upper cover and spine which is faded and worn, pages a little browned, all edges gilt, a good copy.
Presentation inscription on the front free end paper reads: ‘To my son Binks Louis Cohen London 1911.’
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1 page 351: 'The author remarks that he "will attempt to describe men and things" as he had known and seen them "for the last thirty-five years", and those who lived amongst the scenes he depicts can testify to the general accuracy of the vivid pictures he has drawn of the early days of the Diamond Fields. Many of the character sketches are written in an extremely caustic manner, and many of the African magnates are handled in a somewhat rougher manner than is generally accorded to these favourites of fortune'.
A South African Bibliography volume 1, page 570: ‘First published in 1911 - on verso of title page.
This copy has a printed slip tipped in on the front free end paper: Of this Special Edition Eighty Copies only have been printed and bound and no further copies will be issued.
Cohen and the publishers were sued by Sir J.B. Robinson for alleged libel and the latter won the case.’
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