OUT OF THE CRUCIBLE

[SCARCE SIGNED COPY IN DUST JACKET]

CHILVERS (Hedley A.): Out of the Crucible. Being the Romantic Story of the Witwatersrand Goldfields; and of the Great City which arose in their midst.

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company, London.

November 1929 Reprint of the November 1929 First Edition

LOT DESCRIPTION:

Octavo. pp. xiii, 274.

Bound in original publisher's cloth with the rare surviving original dust jacket. Frontispiece and sixteen distinctive black-and-white illustrations by L. Feather.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS LOT:

AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR:

• Distinctly signed in ink by Hedley A. Chilvers on the front free endpaper. Authentic signatures by Chilvers on this title are scarce and highly sought after by Johannesburg history collectors.

RARE SURVIVING DUST JACKET:

• Features the highly uncommon original 1929 dust jacket. While unjacketed copies of this work are frequent on the secondary market, copies preserving the original jacket are exceptionally rare due to the fragile paper stock used by Cassell at the time.

An exceptional presentation copy of Chilvers' classic, definitive narrative on the chaotic rise of the Johannesburg gold fields.

This copy is distinctly autographed by the author, Hedley A. Chilvers, in ink on the front free endpaper.

Same-year reprints in a good dust jacket are highly uncommon; an author-signed example is scarce.

BINDING CONDITION: Very Good. Cloth boards clean and square with firm and slightly bumped corners.

JACKET CONDITION: Good. Original dust jacket present with light edge wear, minor chipping and limited paper loss on heel and crown of spine, now protected in a removable archival sleeve.