Unofficial Dispatches of the Anglo-Boer War by Edgar Wallace  (limited edition)

Unofficial Dispatches of the Anglo-Boer War by Edgar Wallace (limited edition)

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NUMBER 486 OF AN EDITION OF 1000, C,Struik publishers, 1975, facsimile edition of the first edition, index, 332 pages, some wear to dust jacket otherwise condition: very good.
By 1898, Edgar Wallace was a war correspondent for the Daily Mail in the second Boer War. Here are a collection of articles from that period, originally published in the Daily Mail.

 Edgar Wallace was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories.

He was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.

Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work.

In addition to his work on King Kong, he is remembered as a writer of "the colonial imagination", for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and for the Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions and The Economist in 1997 describes him as "one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century". Although the great majority of his books are out of print in the UK, they are still read in Germany. 
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