SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN: SOUTH AFRICA (RHODESIAN EDITION)

Monumental volume dealing with sport in South Africa and Rhodesia, namely horse racing, history of the Wanderers Club, and the history of Cricket, Rugby Football and Association Football. There is also a chapter on prominent South African Sportsmen.

Large quarto. xiii + 526pp on glossy paper. 8 photogravures (with tissue-guards), 305 illustrations throughout the text. Origina red full morocco with gilt bands around the outside of the covers, gilt title, decorations, raised bands to spine, spine sl rubbed in places. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. No.41 of the Rhodesian Edition De Luxe of 100 copies.

A spectacular volume of sport in South Africa during the late 19th and early part of the 20th century.

Date

1929

Publisher

Cape Town: Atkinson

Author

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£375.00 (Code: 2870)

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