This was the second of Reitz's trilogy of autobiographies about and after the Anglo-Boer War, with General Smuts, who, with his wife, nursed Reitz back to health at their Irene farm after he returned to South Africa from his self-exile to Madagascar, contributing the preface.
Fine first edition copies are rare and valuable.
Blue cloth-boards, with gilt lettering to the spine, plain endpapers, 351 pp of prelims, text and index.
This copy, however, though still a first (1933) edition, has an overall rating of no more than G+, with a repaired spine, original spine cover laid down and new endpapers added to tighted the binding. The bumped upper-board corners and the rubbed state of both covers have not been repaired. There is a 1933 ownership signature on the fly-leaf.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good +
- Size: 225 x 155
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
- Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
- Trade Associations: AA Approved
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