Publisher's red full-leather binding with gilt embossed design on front panel and gilt tiles on spine.
340pp. Illustrated by Benny Gruzin. A very good copy.
The colophon at end reads: "This special edition is limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 263."
'This is the story of the South African gold-fields; how they were discovered and how they have been developed and extended during the seventy-six years since the first Main Reef claims were pegged on the farm Langlaagte, three miles from the centre of the city of Johannesburg. It is surprising that in the literature of South Africa there has so far been no complete account of the gold mining industry. No one book has told us how Johannesburg was founded, how the great mines of the East Rand were developed and how the Orange Free State gold-field was discovered. Now an author has come forward with the book we have been waiting for. Here is the history of the mines, old and new, that have produced some two-thirds of the world's existing stock of gold. More than that it is a human story of the men who built this great industry.'
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 4to.
- Sold By: Rare Paper
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- Country: South Africa
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