1.) PAUL KRUGER - HIS LIFE AND TIMES
First edition, The Knox Publishing Company, Durban, 1941.
Publisher's blue cloth binding with titles on spine. Illustrated dust jacket.
510pp. Illustrated with plates.
Binding sound. Contents clean except for a faded contemporary owner's rubber stamp "A.H. Tromp" on front paste down and title page. A very good copy of the scarce first edition.
'Paul Kruger, four times President of the South African Republic, a great leader of a great people, is the theme of this book.
Here he is portrayed against the rich, living background of South African politics, and the rival themes of a gigantic pastoral conservatism and the onrush of industrial progress which began, in his period of political labour and triumph, to gather force in his beloved Transvaal.
He is shown as a boy in the Great Trek, as a gifted athlete, as a great hunter whose feats were legend, as a family man, warrior, president, patriot and inspirer of his people. The man who gave his nation its soul.' - editor's note
2.) THE PACE OF THE OX - A LIFE OF PAUL KRUGER
First reprint of the original 1937 edition, Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 1975.
Publisher's brown hardcover binding with pictorial dust jacket.
xii + 228pp. Illustrated.
The first South African edition, published thirty eight years after the British edition. Gift inscription from the author on the title page, "For Sue and Paul, with love & gratitude from Marjorie Juta."
Binding tight. Contents clean. Oil portrait of Paul Kruger on dust jacket by Maggie Laubser.
'The Pace of the Ox, a life of Paul Kruger, was originally published in 1937. It was a pioneering work, the first full-length biography of Paul Kruger in English.
The Boer President, famous during his own day as a national hero to his own people and dour opponent of British imperialism, has been largely forgotten with the passing of the years or written off as a pathetic failure. Marjorie Juta's work, based on considerable research, brought him to life again. Separating fact from fiction, the author described events in their proper sequence and against a correct historical background. Her book largely contributed to restore the balance.
Marjorie Juta was the first to understand Kruger's greatness of character. Her presentation is intensely dramatic and often moving. She paints a man with a rough exterior but the inner tenderness of an Oliver Cromwell, which escaped most of his contemporaries.' - editor's note
- Overall Condition: Very Good
