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Cassell and company, 1939. in8. 1939. Cartonné. illustrations en noir et blanc

London: Cassell and Company, [1939]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. xviii, 344 pp. Bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt, in cream dust jacket printed in orange and black. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece, one color plate and 68 photogravure plates. Blank presentation bookplate of the Directors of De Beers Consolidated Mines to front free endpaper. Very Good, minor fading and rubbing to extremities of binding, damp staining to back free endpaper otherwise internally clean and sound, in Good dust jacket with water staining to several places, chipping and wear to head and tail of spine and extremities, overall age-toning.

THE STORY OF DE BEERS, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1939, first edition, some light wear and rubbing to the fore edge corner tips, front cover with large darkened rectangular area due to some off-setting, rear cover with a pronounced hill shaped stain beginning at the base of the rear margin, else a vg copy. Profusely illustrated with photos. INSCRIBED by Harry Oppenheimer, philanthropist, industrialist and exceedingly wealthy chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, on a De Beers presentation bookplate on the f.p.d..