Author: Letcher, Owen. (Illustrated by Rose Martin).
Title: When Life Was Rusted Through. A Tale of Northern Rhodesia and the Beira and Mashonaland Railways.
Description: Books of Rhodesia. Bulawayo 1973. 1st edition thus. Printed white boards. 54pp illustrated small 8vo. No inscriptions. a super-clean VG+ copy in lesser dustwrapper (tanned, minor insect attrition along top edges). Reset by the publishers and not a facsimile of the original rare 1934 edition (150 copies only) as often believed but "illustrated and embellisged". (First published in the weekend edition of 'The Argus', Cape Town). The page border design and scraperboard illustrations are superb. The original Author intended the book as a tribute to the BMR and its human milestone marker graves , "Ghosts of men who worked and knew, The fever-swamp, the sickening jar, that came when life was rusted through, Upon the lonely B.M.R." (Cullen Gouldsbury).

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