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Original green cloth boards, clean cream paper, intact map to rear. A little aged and dusty in places. Portrait frontispiece. Front and rear internal hinges cracked and therefore both boards are very wobbly but the text block is firm and tight. Fold-out map to rear (General Map of South Africa 1902) is Fine condition though unprinted area of hinge has a tear.Ownership signature of J. Exelby, Low Burton. The state of the covers can not be ascertained as the book is covered in a wonderfully practical sewn sackcloth or hessian cover. PROVENANCE COPY: Masham Reading Circle (North Yorkshire, England) with their Circulation label pasted on front end-paper. Consisting of a list of 36 printed names, their brief address and date (entered by hand) when the book should be circulated, 1903-1904. Local surnames include: Trotter, Powley, Cockcroft, Pullen, Tennant, Verity, Wintersgill, Mackwell, Render, Exelby, Tranmer and Alton. An important piece of local and family history. Trotter, Powley, Cockcroft, Pullen, Tennant, Verity, Wintersgill, Mackwell, Render, Exelby, Tranmer and Alton.Trotter, Powley, Cockcroft, Pullen, Tennant, Verity, Wintersgill, Mackwell, Render, Exelby, Tranmer and Alton. A memoir of the Boer War told from a Boer perspective. Quite a heavy book so possibly some additional postage cost. Seller Inventory # 000385
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