Author: Cartwright, A.P.
Title: The Corner House. The Early History of Johannesburg.
Description: Purnell & Sons, Cape Town 1965. Blue cloth boards, 293pp, illustrated 8vo. No inscription. Insect stains to fore edge hence a Good only copy in Good protected dustwrapper (chipped at head of spine, insect attrittion on edges). good shelf appearance The world's biggest mining town, Johannesburg, grew up around The Corner House. Julius Wernher, Alfred Beit, Hermann Eckstein, James B. Taylor, Lionel Phillips, Percy Fitzpatrick & Cecil Rhodes all played a part in founding South Africa's mining industry. Includes extracts from the letters they wrote to one another when they were young showing their personal triumphs and disasters.

Keywords: africa transvaal african south southern johannesburg gold mining corner house julius wernher alfred beit hermann ekstein james taylor lionel phillips percy fitzpatrick cecil rhodes