Under Lion's Head. Earlier Days at Green Point and Sea Point

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1964). 4to; original pictorial boards; no dustwrapper; pp. x + 168, incl. index; colour frontis.; map; plates; some pen-and-ink drawings in text. Boards a bit rubbed and partially sunned; earlier owner's bookplate and a blank, diagonal label to front free endpaper; foxing throughout. Good. 'Marischal Murray was a distinguished son of Sea Point. His father was Dr Fred Murray, one-time mayor of Sea Point, who gave unstintingly of his time and energies to the civic and educational life of the area. The passion of Mr Murray's life was ships and the sea, and this took him to many parts of the world in all kinds of sea-going craft. He was the author of Ships and South Africa, the standard work on steamships of the Cape run, published in 1933, and of Union-Castle Chronicle, published in 1953. After having taken an Honours degree in History at Oxford, he was for some years sub-librarian at the Library of Parliament and, later, at the University of Cape Town. A modest man of intellectual tastes, a gift for painting, and a great delight in music, he played his part in two world wars. Home, to Marischal Murray, was always "Under Lion's Head", and for many years his friends urged him to write the history of this part of the Cape Peninsula which he knew and loved so well. He was preparing this book for the press when, at the age of 64, he died on 13th April 1963.' .