Womans Part Revolution by Hammond Mrs John Hays (15 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is an ex-library copy with usual library marks. The contents are foxed and the covers are heavily soiled and rubbed. Good.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, patterned eps, 159pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate tanning to pages throughout, occasional light cracking to some gutters).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FFEP loose, pages tanned, nearing brittle stage. Handle with care. KRM/Women's Studies.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. A memoir of an important event leading up to the Boer War by American woman whose husband, John Hays Hammond, was a mining engineer, diplomat, philanthropist and business partner of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa. As one of the four leading reformers,he was first sentenced to death after the abortive Jameson Raid of December 1895, with the sentence later reduced to 15 years imprisonment, and finally to release in 1896 with payment of a stiff fine. As Mrs Hammond explains in her brief preface, this book, which is based in large part on her diaries, is an account of her personal experiences. "The causes of the Revolt in Johannesburg, and the ensuing political questions, are but lightly touched upon, in deference to the silence enforced upon my husband as one of the terms of his liberation by the Boer Government." 159 pp plus a 32 pp publisher's catalogue at end. Very good overall in deep red cloth covers with gilt lettering - covers are in near fine condition, pages have the usual rather severe toning, with some pages still unopened and others with marginal tears from careless opening.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1897, First Edition, Very Good/no dj, 12mo., 159pp plus 32pp catalogue in rear of other current LG publications, maroon cloth hardcover, gold lettering on cover & backstrip, pictorial endpapers, front interior hinge paper starting to crack but binding tight & solid, text unmarked, Presented & Signed on verso of title page to: "Frances F. Cleveland from Natalie H. Hammond 1908.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Dark blue cloth over boards, gilt letters & rules. Clean, lightly scuffed covers & spine; small, slightly faded spot at front top edge; light rubbing at spine ends; tightly bound; owner name on front free end paper; light foxing on some prelim pages and occasionally in text. 16mo, 144 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 159, 32 [ ads] pp. Red cloth gilt. Bump at the top of the front boards, else near fine. Woman's account of her experiences in the Boer War.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (iv), 159, 32 (ads) pages; Secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board. Text pages age toned. OCLC 315370775 Original owner's signature on Preface page "Hennen Jennings" James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) was a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C.E. Jennings then headed West and worked in gold and quicksilver mines in California for the next ten years. In 1887 he went to Venezuela for another mining job. Finally, his talents as an innovative mining engineer, took him to South Africa. During 1889-1905 he was consulting engineer of H. Eckstein, in Johannesburg, and Wemher Beit, in London. Jennings was chiefly responsible for the development and expansion of their mines, employing the most technologically advanced methods and equipment available in the day. In the rough and tumble of South Africa, he managed to keep out of John Hays Hammond's conspiracy to overthrow Kruger's government and to earn a fortune (the equivalent of about 10 million pounds in 2014) before he returned to America in 1905. Jennings was a fellow mining engineer and colleague John Hays Hammond; their respective wives (Mary Jennings and Natalie Hammond) were friends. Jennings was one of the more moderate "Reformers" who attempted to reign in Hammond and Jameson's more revolutionary sentiments. The author of this book was Natalie Hammond, the wife of John Hays Hammond (1855 1936), a mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. An early advocate of deep mining, Hammond went to South Africa and was given complete charge of Cecil Rhodes' gold and diamond mines, achieving great financial success. Spurred on by Rhodes, Hammond and some other American and British immigrants formed a Reform Committee, demanding that President Paul Kruger establish a stable constitution, a fair franchise law, an independent judiciary, a better educational system. Prematurely launching an invasion of the Transvaal with some 1500 troops, the leaders of the Reform Committee were captured by the Boers in the ill-fated Jameson Raid in December 1895. Hammond and the other leaders of the Johannesburg Reform Committee were sentenced to death; however, President Kruger soon commuted their sentences, and the Reform Committee leaders were released after paying large fines. Hammond returned to the United States forthwith. The book vividly describes the events of 1895-96 in South Africa, but the author eschews addressing political issues for legal reasons to protect her husband. From the Preface: "My personal experience forms the subject of my story. The causes of the Revolt in Johannesburg, and the ensuing political questions, are but lightly touched upon, in deference to the silence enforced upon my husband as one of the terms of his liberation by the Boer Government - Natalie Hammond." ; Signed by Associated.