Second Boer, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition . Signed by the author with a gift inscription . Second edition 1992. The story of Rustenburg and its citizens in the First and Second Anglo-Boer Wars. The pictorial boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and edge worn. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK (if38). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. signed by the author on the title page. also one other previous owner's neat inscription. original pictorial boards are a little shelf rubbed. the binding is excellent. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 274 pp.+ Color Frontis & 65 Other Color Plts, Orig Cream Color Hardback with Red & Blk Outline Design on Cover, 4to, Gilt Spine Title, Top Edge Gilt, Deckle Pages, Near Fine, 1st Limited Ed #246 of 250 Copies, Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition, first issue. This is a jacketed presentation copy of General Sir Ian Hamilton's extraordinary, privately printed tribute to his late wife, inscribed by Hamilton during the Second World War to an old military comrade from the Boer War and First World War.Hamilton's lengthy inscription, which fills the front free endpaper recto, is dated "Monday, 12th January 1942" and was completed at Hamilton's "1, Hyde Park Gardens London" address. It reads in part: "My Dear Madocks, For long we have seen little of one another but today I had the pleasure of meeting your better half at lunch with Lady Melchett who gave us a top-hole lunch of all sorts of delicacies flavored with violent anti Hitler diatribes So the happy thought came to me that as the Memoir to my "Jean" had just been completed you ought to have it, and here it is! I hope very much you will like it. May you have a chance of letting off a gun or a revolver or something at the enemy during this fateful year Your old friend Ian Hamilton".The book, bound in fragile, decorated paper-covered boards and wrapped in a dust jacket of matching paper, is in very good condition, the jacket very good minus. The binding is square, clean, bright, and tight, though with shelf wear to extremities and short splits at the lower joints. The contents are clean with no spotting, no ownership marks other than Hamilton's inscription, and only mild age-toning. The dust jacket is spine-toned, with light overall soiling, wear to extremities, fractional loss at the spine head, and loss to a depth of one inch at the heel. The jacket is protected beneath clear, removable mylar.General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947) was a decorated soldier whose active service spanned the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879 to command at Gallipoli in 1915. It was in India that Hamilton met Jean Miller Muir (1861-1941), daughter of a wealthy Scottish entrepreneur, who Hamilton married on 22 February 1887 in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. They remained faithful companions for the next 54 years until Lady Hamilton's death. The Hamiltons long resided at 1 Hyde Park Gardens the address at the head of this inscription - from 1913 until General Sir Ian's death.Hamilton and Madocks served together during the Boer War in South Africa, more than four decades before Hamilton wrote this inscription. William Robarts Napier Madocks (1870-1946) went on to serve as Brigadier-General in the British Army during the First Word War, and was awarded the CB, CMG, DSO, and Croix de Guerre.Of note, Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, were great friends of the Hamiltons. Churchill first befriended then-Colonel Hamilton in India in 1897. Churchill was in the first year of his Second World War premiership when Jean died, and he contributed to this book. An autograph letter signed by Churchill on his "10, Downing Street, Whitehall" stationery dated "25 Feb 1941" is reproduced in facsimile at pp. 41-42 and transcribed at p.43. The Churchills and Hamiltons were already "firm friends" during the First World War when friendship between their families "was sealed" by the Dardanelles disaster. Then-First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill had recommended Hamilton for high command of the Gallipoli expedition. Given the criticism both men faced in the aftermath, either man might have displaced blame to the other. Instead, "the progenitor of the expedition and its commander, Churchill and Hamilton" worked closely together to encourage a factual, accurate inquiry.It was not just the two men who were friends. "Jean and Winston shared a love of painting." And Jean and Churchill's wife, Clementine, were also close. Towards the end of the First World War, "the pregnant Clementine, worried about her family finances, even offered to give her unborn child to the childless Jean Hamilton. There could hardly be a more graphic example of the closeness of their families and friendship."Sources: Cohen B77.1; ODNB; Auckland Museum; Andrew Roberts in Finest Ho.

First Class Saloon passenger Miss Gladys H Wilkinson's scrapbook of her journey to Cape Town, South Africa departing Southampton on board RMS Dunvegan on Saturday July 7th 1900 and her subsequent 18 months spent in Grahamstown (now Makhanda), a staunchly English speaking colonial stronghold. Seemingly a solo female traveller, Miss Wilkinson made the journey to join and support The Guild of Loyal Women, Grahamstown Branch, a pro-British voluntary organisation founded in early 1900 during the Second Boer War involved in supporting soldiers, providing education and child welfare. The scrapbook offers an unfiltered interpretation of the intense nationalism of the time and a glimpse into the personal life, networks and social circles of its creator during this heated time. Included within its leaves are: 1. RMS DunvegaN Castle, Union Castle Line ephemera : a hand painted title page incorporating a pasted in image of the ship and details relating to the journey and bell times; a printed passenger list of c100 named First Saloon Passengers including Miss Wilkinson, the soprano Miss Virginie Cheron, Madame Belle Cole the contralto and many nursing sisters and doctors; a colour fold out map in excellent condition titled 'Royal Mail Service Castle Line Map of South Africa'; autograph signatures of fellow passengers; a paper cutting and a hand drawn map produced following an on board lecture by fellow passenger African explorer Dr Carl Peters; 9 x on board entertainment programmes; b/w photographs of a dockside scene, a woman and child and a man with horses. 2. Grahamstown ephemera: c20 programmes for organ recitals, fancy dress balls, concerts and thanksgiving services in Grahamstown Town Hall, Cathedral Church, Albany Hall; a single photo and a b/w panorama made up of 2 photographs showing the 'Welcome Home' celebrations in Grahamstown town square; a morning market price list for fruit and veg dated March 12th [1900]; 10 b/w scenic landscape photographs stamped 'Trem C Sole Photographic Artist'; Order of Service from Cathedral Church of St Michael on the day of the funeral of Queen Victoria; paper cuttings declaring Martial Law notices dated Jan 1901 for the districts of Albany and Bathurst; a street pass and night permit issued to Miss Wilkinson dated May and Oct 1901; c 30 contemporary paper cuttings relating to the 'Boer Invasion'; photographs of actors, their signatures and a list of characters for a performance of The Prisoner of Zelda - Miss Wilkinson may feature in these images. 3. Guild of Loyal Women, South Africa ephemera: a banquet invitation to Miss W to celebrate the return from war of Marshall's Horse Regiment; invitation to a Public Breakfast on 25th Dec 1900 in Steinmann's Hotel to celebrate General Baden Powell; The Constitution of the Guild of the Loyal Women of South Africa including list of members and rules; various paper clippings relating to the activities of the Guild. 4. General LARGER paper cuttings: 'Return of Marshall's Horse' Groot Penny Mail December 27 1900; 'Hero of Mafeking Visits Grahamstowm to celebrate Baden Powell's Visit' Groots Penny Mail December 28 1900; 'Baden Powell in Grahamstown' Groots Penny Mail Dec 28 1900. 5. General: Vonderau's Mail and Passenger Carts luggage labels for journey's to and from Grahamstown to Fort Beaufort in Miss Wilkinson's name dated Jan '01; paperwork for journey from Port Elizabeth to Durban aboard SS Pembroke dated July '01 including medical examination card, luggage examination certificate, intelligence department paperwork; b/w photographs of Durban West St, scenery and graves of the Manchester Regiment killed on Caeser's Hill; return paperwork to England from the embarking officer dated 5th December 1901 for travel as a 1st class indulgence passenger aboard the Britannic.; programme for entertainment on board the White Star Line Britannic and A Christmas Day on board menu dated Dec 12th 1901; c20 additional photographs laid in depicting individuals and everyday scenes 'Gathering Oranges' and ' Ox wagon Train'; several sketches and drawings most probably by Miss Wilkinson. PHYSICAL CONDITION : A sturdy half black over brown roan landscape album measuring 37 cm x 26 cm. The front board is detached and spine panel not really present - remnants sit within leaves) Album block is sound; several of the previously taped in pieces of ephemera now sit loose within the 50 leaves. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.