8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 378, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper very slightly rubbed; earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; some foxing. Good to very good condition. "This informal history of the Cape Times, the oldest daily newspaper in South Africa and a much-loved Cape Town institution, is the story of a vigorous tradition of independent journalism. Set against the background of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Gerald Shaw's lively and engrossing book follows the changing fortunes of the paper and the men and women who produced it - both the remarkable succession of editors, such as Edmund Garrett, B K Long, Victor Norton and Tony Heard, and the equally colourful and talented staffers.".

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Title: The Cape Times: An Informal History
Publisher: (Cape Town: David Philip, 1999) 0864864043
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0864864043
ISBN 13: 9780864864048
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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This informal history of the Cape Times, the oldest daily newspaper in South Africa and a much-loved Cape Town institution, is the story of a vigorous tradition of independent journalism.

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