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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 404. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, edges untrimmed, two folding maps printed in colour, blue coated endpapers. Reading lean, textblock generally bright and clean with just the occasional mark, some tearing and chipping to the first (fragile) map. Some dustiness to edges. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marking. Rare. Very good. Buchan's study into the options for reconstruction in South Africa after the end of the Second Boer War. Item #52245
Price: £575.00