Jan Hofmeyr. Heir to Smuts
by Macdonald, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Hurst & Blackett, 1948). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in black on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. 271, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper edgeworn, and sunned on spine panel, with earlier owner's tape repair at tail; trace of wear to extremities of backstrip; earlier owner's name signed on flyleaf; some foxing to endpapers. Good condition. "This is the story of the remarkable and courageous career of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, the great South African Liberal, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mines and Education in the Union Government. He is (says the author) the heir to General Smuts for the Premiership, and points out that there is no other politician on the South African horizon of the calibre of Hofmeyr to lead the country when the Smuts epoch ends." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12999
- Title
- Jan Hofmeyr. Heir to Smuts
- Author
- Macdonald, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1948)
- Keywords
- United Party. South African Party. Great South Africans South African History
- Bookseller catalogs
- South African History;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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