Cape Town

Author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper. Half-title reads: Cape Town: A Record of the Mother City from the Earliest Days to the Present. 4to; original red rexine, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt title and crest to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (xvi) + 654; profusely illustrated. Portion missing from top edge of dustwrapper, with earlier owner's repairs to reverse side; spine a little sunned at head. Very good condition. "1963 marks the Golden Jubilee of Greater Cape Town, the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of eight of those municipalities that today constitute the Mother City. To commemorate the event, the City Council authorised the publication of this volume and for the past two and a half years it has been my aim faithfully to record the impressive story of Cape Town from its earliest days to the present; to place between the covers of this book a comprehensive account of its municipal, commercial and industrial endeavours, and so provide the citizens of today and tomorrow with a fair record of those who, together with their achievements, constitute the history of the City.".