Limited Edition no. 5 of 250 copies, 208pp, hardcover book printed on handmade paper, with portraits and illustrations. Publisher’s original binding with quarter white parchment, brown cloth sides and gilt top edge. Quarter white parchment is a little grubby and there is some white spotting to the spine. Some shelf wear to the extremities and some minor markings to the brown cloth sides and gilt top edge. Internally, pages are clean and printed on handmade paper. Front endpaper has an inscription dated March 1948. A good copy.
The book is a memoir of the Randlord Barney Barnato. The author interviewed Barney Barnato and provides a first hand account of his life and death. The book details how he made his fortune on the diamond fields and the amalgamation of his mining company with Cecil Rhodes to create De Beers.
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Size: 290mm x 205mm
London, Isbister and Company Ltd, 1897
NB: This book will be shipped from Northern Ireland (UK) and will incur additional shipping & insurance costs.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 290mm x 205mm
