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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Gluckstein (S.M.)

QUEEN OR PRESIDENT - AN INDICTMENT OF PAUL KRUGER

Published: Grant Richards, London, 1900

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $60

Approximately:

Estimate: $85

Bidding opens: 14 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Nov 16:30 GMT

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xii plus 178 pp. First edition 1900. Frontispiece of Kruger. Khaki cloth cover. This copy is in very good condition.

"The case for Great Britain" is presented in this volume by a journalist who had long resided in the Transvaal, and who maintain that the Colonial Office should have applied pressure to the Republic long before, and that "the failure of the Imperial authorities to intervene brought about the Jameson Raid, and this in turn promted the Boers to hasten their preconceived plan for getting rid of British fetters...... (Mendelssohns volume 1 page 610)

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (200 x 140 mm)


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