Smuts J C Preface (10 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair to Good. 286 pages. Ex-library. Foxing, soiling along page edges. Corners on front and back covers clipped. First published in 1929. Discovery of diamonds and gold in the Boer territory of the Transvaal whetted British greed for power, wealth and territories; vicious and inhumane tactics were implemented of throwing women and children into concentration camps, while burning crops and destroying Boer property. ".Wealthy industrialists such as Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, and Julius Wernher began orchestrating British policy to eliminate Boer self-rule." "When Alfred Milner, a noted believer in 'Empire', became governor of the British Cape Colony, he became the prime mover in persuading the British government and public that all peoples involved would be better served if the British were to assume their well-practiced 'duty' of sovereignty." Thousands of innocent women and children died while imprisoned in British concentration camps. Eighty percent of them were children. British Colonial Terrorism.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Reprint. 331 pp , yellow cloth with red title to spine. Pages tanned, endpapers marked otherwise sound book, dust wrapper worn and torn with loss.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US edition. Mild toning and slight wear to covers. Binding sturdy and tight. Spine is sunned and has a few creases.

Inscription to fep relating to an HMT ship in 1940. 2nd edition. Buff coloured cloth with black titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 328 pages. 6.00x0.88x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Half Calf. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. xviii + 191 pages, numerous b/w & colour plates, text illustrations, bound in red half calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and lining, marking to cloth of boards and slight wear to corners and head and foot of spine, hand lettered inscription reading "Rev Mother Pius, to Celebrate your Golden Jubiliee from W M Kingswell, 1875-1925".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 18th Reprint. J.C. Smuts's Preface (1933): The writer of this book, as a boy of seventeen, served under me during the days when he and I raided British camps and convoys and outposts during the Boer War in South Africa. Of those doings he has written a stirring account in a previous work, and now he carries on the story from the time he went into exile in 1902 rather than submit to British rule. He describes his trials and adventures in Madagascar and he tells of how, at length, at my wifes request, he was induced to return to South Africa to take part in the reconstruction period that followed the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging. He goes on to tell at first hand of the troubled rebuilding of our country and of a rebellion wherein so many of us found ourselves in the same position as those Southerners who stood by the Union during the American Civil War, and how, like theirs, our road was a thorny one. Thereafter he soldiered under me in the wilds of Africa, and his is the first connected narrative that I have seen of those strange half-forgotten campaigns that were conducted by General Botha and myself against the far-off German colonies. He concludes his tale with a vivid description of his ex periences in France during the Great War, and he lived to lead a British battalion to the Rhine. Since then he has taken an active part in the public life of his country and he is, at the time of writing, a member of the present South African Government. For nearly thirty-five years he and I have been closely associated in peace and war, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce this work to what I trust will be a very wide public. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 351 pages with fold-out Maps and Index ---------- Orders of $100.00 or more are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 5½" Wide - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 351, with five maps. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Slight rubbing at extremities, faint scuffing at spine and a few faint marks on the front cover, otherwise sound, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. A fresh, almost near-fine copy. Royal blue clothbound with bright gilt rules, lettering and decorative device to top cover. Probably unread. Only flaws noted are tanning to endpapers, PON to FFEP and slight bumps to bottom tips. No d/j. Language: eng.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. Paris 1930. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf Broché cousu. Format in-8° ( 22,7 x 14,3 cm )( 384 gr ). ------- 323 pages Avec une carte du Transvaal.