The Story of De Beers – Hedley A. Chilvers ( Signed by Gavin Relly, former Chairman of Anglo American)

Description

– With some notes on the Company’s financial, farming, railway and industrial activities in Africa, and some introductory chapters on the river diggings and early Kimberley –

– Foreword by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer –

Bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt, in cream dust wrapper printed in orange and black. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece, one color plate and 68 photogravure plates. Signed by Gavin Relly on the inside of the cover. Blank presentation bookplate (also signed at the top by Gavin Relly” reading “Presented… with the compliments of the Directors of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Limited.”

Price: R3500.00

Edition: First edition

Published: 1939

Publishers: Cassell and Company

Condition: Cloth hardcover with gilt lettering in very good condition, with minor shelf wear to the edges of the cover and top and bottom of the spine. Internally in very good condition – very clean and tightly bound – with pages probably slightly yellowed due to age. Dust jacket in fair condition with significant shelf wear around the edges and spine.