SIGNED! JOHANNESBURG: THEN AND NOW BY MARC LATILLA

JOHANNESBURG: THEN AND NOW BY MARC LATILLA. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, HARDCOVER, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

In less than a century, the jumble of shabby tents and lean-tos that constituted Johannesburgs first settlement has grown into a modern metropolis of towering office buildings, high-rise apartments and sprawling suburbs. Its rapid development has been in no small measure the result of the fabulous wealth that lay in the goldrich deposits of the now-famous Witwatersrand basin. The story of gold is also the story of Johannesburg, and in a fascinating series of photographic juxtapositions, Johannesburg Then and Now chronicles the citys expansion from dusty mining camp to economic powerhouse. Rare archival photographs, dating from the 1880s to the 1940s, are contrasted with vivid scenes of the modern city, providing a hitherto untold portrait of the Place of Gold.