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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Doyle (A. Conan)

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

Published: Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1902

Edition: New edition

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New edition:159 pages, + 181 pages (translation), half navy leather with matching marbled boards, titled gilt on the upper cover, marbled fore-edge, a good copy.

Bound with a translation of this work in French La Guerre dans l’Afrique Australe

The new edition completing 300,000 copies contains an appendix (pages157-158) which relates to the concentration camps and which attempts to vindicate the British actions. It quotes Kitchener who lays the blame on Louis Botha, then Commandant General of the Transvaal, 'As I informed your Honour at Middelburg, owing to the irregular manner in which you have conducted and continue to conduct hostilities, by forcing unwilling and peaceful inhabitants to join your commandos, a proceeding totally unauthorised by the recognised customs of war, I have no other course open to me, and am forced to take the very unpleasant and repugnant steps of bringing in the women and children.'

  • Overall Condition: A good copy
  • Size: 8vo ( 210 x140mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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