Sports And Sportsmen South Africa

Sports And Sportsmen - South Africa 

Compiled and edited by the Cape Times

Atkinson & Partners (S.A.) Limited, 1929, small folio, leatherbound, 526 pp.

Condition: good - the leather, gilt-lined boards are in good condition, with moderate scuffing and marking; the binding is firm, pages clean throughout, very attractive red marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, the effects of dampstaining are evident on the first 20 or so pages, and has caused slight rippling of the heavy gauge paper; the front inner hinge has experienced some worming, with the lower hinge cloth eaten away (now completely extinct with no further degradation). 
Limited Edition, this copy being 163 of 500; and please note this is a very heavy book.

Chapters include horse racing and breeding, cricket, university sport, rugby, The Springboks, Association Football, and prominent sportsmen of South Africa. A true and valuable historical record of sport between the years of the 19th and 20th centuries.