Search Results: Anglo-Boer War from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2000) 0620254394. 219 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (xiv) + 168, incl index, plus publisher's catalogue; photographs. Earlier owner's name signed on half-title and lower cover. Very good condition. "Wars always generate stories and everybody loves a story. Rob Milne has compiled this selection of Anglo-Boer War stories from all over South Africa and recounts them in a book that saddens, mystifies, but most of all entertains. There's the devotion of the English fiancée who for 60 years sent a sprig of heather to the Chrissiesmeer Post Office for her beloved's grave. There's the tale of the lone Boer sniper who held off the entire Guards Brigade for more than a day after the Battle of Bergendal. There's the story of the soldier who, caught illegally bayoneting a sheep, looked severely at the prostrate beast and remarked: 'I'll teach you to try to bite a British soldier!' Read about Sergeant Woodward's two graves… Read More

(Bloemfontein: The Free State Tourism Board, no date). 210 x 148 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 16; photographs; map. Very good condition. "Not only do we have battlefields, but also blockhouses and the only museum, the War Museum in Bloemfontein, in the world whose mission it is to portray this war. This booklet will be able to help you plan your visit to our famous battlefields. The information in it is concise, but is by no means the full story. It is only meant as a guide to what had happened. Concentration Camp cemeteries also serve as places where this aspect of the war is remembered. A visit to a battlefield is a privilege and an honour. Preserve our battlefields, they are the only ones we have." .

(Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, 1964). 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt 'Long Tom' device to upper cover; dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (iv) + 129; a few facsimiles. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn and partially sunned. Very good condition. "The substance of this book comes entirely from a letter to his wife commenced on 27th October, 1899, and finished on 1st March, 1900 - within which dates Watkins-Pitchford endured and survived the Siege of Ladysmith. However much about the Siege may previously have been published, this marathon letter is a most distinguished and eloquent contribution. It may add but little to known facts; it does certainly provide a document of intense human interest, not only by faithfully recording the day by day events, but by clearly and vividly reflecting the whole panorama of emotions evoked at the time in a highly sensitive and impressionable mind. Reading this account, one feels besieged, angry,… Read More

(London: Putnam, 1958). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; tinted top edge; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 317, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper edgeworn and partially sunned, with scuff to spine panel. Very good condition. "The first of modern wars, and yet one in which old-fashioned heroics were still practised - such was the South African War of 1899 - 1902. Khaki replaced scarlet, the importance of camouflage was seen for the first time; and, by means of deadly rifle-fire, and their flexible 'commando' tactics, 50,000 Boers defied a British Army almost ten times as strong. Yet cavalry charges with lance and sabre were still carried out, and Lord Robert's son lost his life in a story-book escapade, galloping into heavy fire to rescue abandoned guns." .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2014) 9781868420742. 270 x 227 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 304, incl. index; liberally illustrated in monochrome and full colour, with maps, contemporary artwork and photographs. Fine condition. "First published in 1979 Thomas Pakenham's The Boer War is still considered the standard text on the subject and this sensitively abridged illustrated edition brings it to a wider public. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources. He combed the original British documents in the Public Record Office and the material in South African archives. He traced the private papers of most of the protagonists. And he dug up several hundred sets of letters and diaries written by the men who fought in the war. Finally, he tape-recorded the memories of over fifty survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold mine, Thomas Pakenham has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel." .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1999) 1868420906. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiii + (i) + 274, incl. index; plates; maps. Earlier owner's book label to front pastedown; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "The Boer War (1899-1902) witnessed the professionals of the British Army pitted against the gifted amateurs who led the Boer commandos. For the Boers, it was a struggle for their independence; for Britain, an attempt once and for all to assert her political supremacy in South Africa. While sheer weight of numbers and ruthless tactics eventually secured a British military victory, the extraordinary Boer effort won respect worldwide. The Boer War Generals is an in-depth study of the principal commanders on both sides, in a conflict that was both 'the last of the gentlemen's wars' and the first modern one. ... Peter Trew's detailed narrative examines each personality separately, highlighting… Read More

(London: Osprey Publishing, 1977) 0850452570. A book in Osprey's Men-at-Arms series. 247 x 184 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 40; contemporary photographs; full-colour plates. Wrappers very slightly rubbed and curled; earlier owner's hand-stamp to edges and title page; trace of spotting to inside of wrappers. Very good condition. An excellent guide to the conflict, and particularly the uniforms and combat clothing of both sides. .

(London: Leo Cooper, 1975) 0850521920. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xxvi + 181, incl. index; plates. Very good condition. A volume in the 'Concise Campaigns' series. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. The page measures 37 x 27.5 cm, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cm. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1999) 1868420930. 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 349. Fine condition. "The Anglo-Boer War was a tragic, fascinating and complex historical event. It saw the end of a century, a reign, a way of life and was in many respects the curtain-raiser to the twentieth century, providing a foretaste of what have become all too familiar horrors over the last hundred years: the mass involvement of civilian populations in war; concentration camps, and guerilla warfare. It is now a hundred years since the outbreak of the war and we commemorate with A Century of Anglo-Boer War Stories - an anthology of stories and poetry written by Afrikaners, Englishmen and also black South Africans, who explore the trauma of the time and place from their own varied perspectives. They probe fascinating aspects of human resilience as revealed in time of war and are diverse, entertaining and moving. But above all, the stories have been selected for the quality of the… Read More

(Amsterdam and Cape Town: H.A.U.M., 1904). 8vo; original olive green cloth blocked in gilt and blind; pictorial onlay on upper cover; blind-stamped emblem of Boer republics on lower cover; pp. (x) + 224; black-and-white photographic plates and illustrations in text. Trace of foxing to endpapers and edges. Exceptional condition. Dutch text. (SABIB 1, p. 283; uniform English edition: Hackett, pp. 48, 131) "An historical and descriptive sketch of the island of Ceylon, with an account of the outward journey from South Africa and of life as experienced by Boer prisoners-of-war at Diyatalawa and Ragama camps." - Hackett, p. 49. .

(Bloemfontein: Nasionale Vrouemonumentekommissie, 1954). 180 x 246 mm; card wrappers; pp. 176; photographs; a few line drawings. Slightly frayed at head of spine; previous owner's name signed on first page; few tape marks to first and final pages. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. An appreciation of the great Boer general, one of the greatest guerilla tacticians the world has known. .

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1974) 360002684. 8vo; original black rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + (ii) + 127; photographs, incl. some colour; tables. Dustwrapper somewhat edgeworn, with a little loss to head of spine panel and crease to lower panel. Very good condition, in a modest dustwrapper. "Coin-collectors, particularly ZAR enthusiasts, will welcome the publication of this detailed study of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek coinage. Chapters include collecting for beginners, coin care and grading, examination of the regular ZAR series as well as rarities, and of interest to all numismatists, the most comprehensive information on forgeries yet published and some exciting new facts on the legendary Kruger millions. Investors are advised on investing profitably in the 'new Kruger millions', the Krugerrands, as well as ZAR coins, of which there is a catalogue included of current valuations. The foreword to this commemorative volume is by Mrs F. B. Lang,… Read More

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .

---. Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. 'At a time when all eyes are turned to the operations of our troops in South Africa, those who are responsible for the organisation of our forces at home, and their conduct in the field, are much in the public mind. This series of CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY will present its chiefs and leaders in a very vivid manner. ... the public craves to know more of the men whom it trusts, and to whom it looks to accomplish its will. They will be shown in this series, in a manner that is at once striking and altogether new, by admirable portraits in colours and life-like presentments of character in the text.' The page measures 37 x 27.5 cms, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cms. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio. .