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Auction #128 begins on 15 Jan 2026

[Price (Captain Frank Denton)]

THE GREAT BOER WAR 1899-1901. LETTERS

Printed for Private Circulation

Published: Andrew Reid & Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1901

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $125

Approximately:

Estimate: $175/200

Bidding opens: 15 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 22 Jan 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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First Edition: 150 pages, 6 photographic plates, full brown leather over bevelled boards rubbed along the edges of the spine, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, a very good copy.

Inscribed in ink at the head of the title page 'With Compliments, JP'

Hackett (R.G.) South African War Books: an illustrated bibliography page 100, 'Letters of Captain Price of the 1st Durham Royal Engineers (volunteers) while on active service in South Africa. Most of the letters are to the author's father addresses from various locations in the Orange River Colony and Transvaal. A diary of the campaign 1900-1901 is appended preceded by the roll of the Durham Volunteer Detachment the 1st Durham R.E. Some copies are bound without the campaign diary.'

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (185 x 130 mm)


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