Ons Parool. Dae uit die Dagboek van 'n Krygsgevangene
by Preller, Gustav S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Nasionale Pers, 1943). 8vo; original oatmeal cloth, lettered in green on spine, and blocked in green and brown to upper cover; dustwrapper; pp. (iv) + 172: plates. Dustwrapper a little rubbed, with trace of edgewear; earlier owner's signed name and hand-stamp, with penned accession date, to front pastedown; discreet ownership hand-stamp elsewhere; occasional minor fox spot. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. (Nienaber I, p. 302) Gustav Schoeman Preller, the well-known South African historian, was born in 1875, and went to school at Standerton. He served in the State Artillery in the South African War, 1899-1902, and took part in major Natal battles of the war. Four months before the end of the war in 1902, he was taken prisoner near Ermelo and taken prisoner to India. .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9173
- Title
- Ons Parool. Dae uit die Dagboek van 'n Krygsgevangene
- Author
- Preller, Gustav S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Nasionale Pers, 1943)
- Keywords
- Anglo-Boer War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anglo-Boer War;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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