The Last Empire: South Africa, Diamonds and De Beers from Cecil Rhodes to the Oppenheimers
by Kanfer, Stefan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 034053382X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340533826
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Very Good. 409pp. (black spine) large 8vo. 1993. First edition. The title should read: 'The Last Empire De Beers, Diamonds, and the world'. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. No inscriptions. Original publisher's black boards - gilt embossed to the spine. The text supported by some photographic reproductions. A bump to the upper front board corner and to the tail of the spine and a light bump to the head of the spine - all with some light associated creasing to the overlying jacket. The jacket has not been price-clipped and remains in very good condition with just a little shelf wear. A very good, clean, tight copy of a rare book.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU004669
- Title
- The Last Empire: South Africa, Diamonds and De Beers from Cecil Rhodes to the Oppenheimers
- Author
- Kanfer, Stefan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 034053382X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340533826
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1993
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Tail
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