'CIOS', pseudonym.

Life in Afrikanderland as viewed by an Afrikander. A story of life in South Africa, based on truth. By 'Cios'.

London, Digby, Long & Co., 1897. 8vo (195 x 130 mm), pp. xi, 274, [2, blank], 15 (advertisements), [1]; original dark green cloth; the Hosken copy, with bookplate. First edition. ‘A political novel dealing mainly with the period of the Jameson Raid. The author states that he has written the story “for the chief purpose of placing before the English reading public a true and faithful version of the character and life of an Afrikander”, and observes, “I could not resist the temptation to write something in which the truth and nothing but the truth would be told”. The publishers, in issuing the volume, comment on the “entirely anti-English standpoint” adopted by the author, but consider that “it is of great practical importance that we should be accurately informed as to the way in which our adversaries regard us”. The latter part of the volume contains an account of the Jameson Raid, the political state of the Rand, and the events subsequent to the Raid, and is bitterly antagonistic to the British and Uitlander inhabitants of the Transvaal’ (Mendelssohn).Hosken p. 47; Mendelssohn I p. 340.

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• nº de pedido: T1603

• librero: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)