Author: Macmillan, Allister. (Ed).
Title: Environs of the Golden City and Pretoria.
Description: Cape Times 1937 1st edition. Brown imitation leather boards. aeg. 414pp illustrated sepia photographs. folio. Bookplate ffep. re-cased with original boards and spine. contents excellent but with some foxing to ff at each end. Boards show damp damage, dib to spine. A sound reference copy. Covers the early Transvaal industrial towns from Pretoria to Vereeniging and from Krugersdorp to Witbank & Middelburg. Articles on the different locales by writers such as Eric Rosenthal, Hedley Chilvers, Vere Stent, & more. The format is a history and outline of each town followed by a review of commercial establishments. Illustrated with many photographs.

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