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Auction #121 begins on 27 Feb 2025

Letcher, (Owen)

AFRICA UNVEILED

Adventures. Mysteries and Romances

Published: Central News Agency, Johannesburg, 1931

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $55

Bidding opens: 27 Feb 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 6 Mar 16:30 GMT

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Brown cloth covers with picture inlay. Titles to front board and spine. 152 pages. Name of previous owner on ffep. Frontispiece picture. This copy is in good condition

Foreward by The Honourable the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia - Howard Unwin Moffat. Six illustrations by Margaret Metcalfe, Ekizabeth Whymper and A.A. Aston.

Part 1: The good old days 1909- 1914.

Snippets on the Northern Extensions railway, Ulysses P Ogden, A Mashonaland tragedy, Despatches from the Front, King's African Rifles, The Batoka Hunt

Part 2: The War

Snippets on The Place where the Elephants Die, Central and East African Campaigns, H.M.S. Hibiscus, Chibijulu's last safari. The Wells of Kobis, South West Africa.

Part 3: Apres la Guerre

Snippets on The Mineral prospects in the Richtersveld, O'Okiep, Cape Copper Company, Pretoria & Johannesburg.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (19 x 13 cm)


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