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THE TREASURE CASKET (8 Volumes), Foreword by Field-Marshal the Right Honourable J.C. Smuts, in fair condition.
With a message from Prof. W.F. Grant, B. Sc. (Lond.), Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cape Town to the Junior Literary Society (Pty.) Ltd. Compiled and arranged by Roy E. Stevens assisted by D. Taylor, M.A.
Published: The Junior Literary Society (Pty.) Ltd., St Georges St. Cape Town, 1947 (8 volumes). Buckram Cloth hardcovers with gilt titles and other decorative embellishments. Illustrations (some color), portraits. Contents; Vol. I includes poems, short stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales Vol. II Legendary tales of yesteryear Vol. III includes stories by John Ruskin, Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe and Charles Kingsley Vol. IV contains brief biographies on contemporary and historical personalities. A 23 page biography on J.C. Smuts by B.L.W. Brett is included in the line up of 'great lives'. Vol. V contains short articles on natural history Vol. VI contains true stories of adventure and exploration, amongst others, Brian Marsh's 'Skeleton Coast' and the travels of David Livingstone, etc. Vol. VII includes prose and poems by authors including Oliver Goldsmith, William Hazlitt John Keats Joseph Conrad, Edgar Allan Poe and G.K. Chesterton Vol. VIII "Man and his genius" (inventions).