Author: Raymond, Harry.
Title: B.I. Barnato, a Memoir.
Description: Isbister - Juta. 1897 1st edition. Original green cloth boards. 208pp illustrated b/w plates. edges rough-cut. 8vo. 0.7kg. Front board shaken. liquid stain to edge of frontis but not touching picture and matching offset to title page. overall heavy wear, a good reading copy. no dustwrapper. A biography of Barney Barnato written in a conversational style. Author met Barnato whilst doing a column for a newspaper, so this is a contemporary personal impression rather than one later researched from letters and personal papers. Includes reminiscences by Louis Cohen.

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