South Africa: Its History, Heroes and Wars [Salesman's Dummy] [Cover title: The Library of South Africa]

Chicago: Monarch Book Company, 1900. Good +. Chicago: Monarch Book Company, 1900. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (24 cm); mixed pagination + 1pp ad + 8pp unused order sheets; illus. throughout; 51 plates including frontis. Boards full bound in dark green cloth, a pasted black and white illustration to front cover, with maroon and gilt stamping. Spine example folds out as a front flap. Boards generally soiled, rubbed and scuffed; bumped and worn at ends, corners, and joints. Spine example's gilt has been mostly rubbed away. Red leather spine example pasted to front endsheet and newspaper clipping of a seemingly unrelated story loosely laid in. First free endsheet offset from leather spine example. Pages lightly soiled and toned throughout. A Good or better copy of a scarce salesman's dummy.