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Auction #127 begins on 06 Nov 2025

Biographies

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN'S WHO'S WHO (1938)

Over 1,500 biographical sketches with photos incl. Mrs. Smuts, Mrs. Hertzog, Johanna Brandt, Inez Verdoorn, Mrs. Slade, Mrs. Reitz, Sylva Moerdyk etc.

Published: Biographies (Pty.) Limited, Johannesburg, 1938

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $50

Approximately:

Estimate: $70

Bidding opens: 6 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 13 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Publisher's original black cloth binding.

528pp. Portrait photographs in profusion.

Contains over 1,500 short biographical sketches with accompanying portrait photographs of prominent South African women of the era, including Mrs. Smuts, Mrs. Hertzog, Mrs. Bain-Marais (daughter of Sir Thomas Cullinan), Johanna Brandt, Inez Verdoorn (botanist and cousin of Eugene Marais), Mrs. Slade (of the cookbook fame), Mrs. Reitz (wife of Deneys), Sylva Moerdyk (children's book author and sister of Minister Oswald Pirow) etc.

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good


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