One of the scarcest Hogarth Press titles

Barnes, Leonard ~ The New Boer War

First UK Printing : The Hogarth Press, London: 1932

Crown 8vo., publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to backstrip; in the seldom-found dustwrapper, printed in orange (7s. 6d. net); containing four full-page maps; The BOOK a Very Good- only copy, rather heavily spotted , particularly to outer edges, prelims and endpapers; spine pushed and sunned at tips; the equally spotted WRAPPER with some creasing to edges and some larger chips, particularly to the foot of the spine, and foot of rear flap (both up to 2.5cm in depth). Unrestored. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition. One of the scarcest titles to find by the Hogarth Press, one of 1250 copies printed (Woolmer 280). An uncommon scholarly account of the events and conditions in South Africa by the noted anti-colonialist, journalist and author Leonard Barnes. Barnes was born in 1895 and served in the First World War in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, where he was wounded three times and awarded the Military Cross with bar. After completing his education he travelled to South Africa, where he worked as a farmer and later as journalist in Cape Town. Returning to England in 1932, he wrote The New Boer War, documenting his experiences in the country with a particular concentration on colonial and development issues, and giving an account of the changing conditions in the three South African territories under British control. Under Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press published a number of titles on world political and economic issues, including ‘India in Transition’ by Major D. Graham Pole and ‘Empire and Commerce in Africa’ by Leonard Woolf himself. This title remains one of the most uncommon, especially so in the dustwrapper.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Very Good-
JACKET: Very Good-