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Bennett,Benjamin : This Was A Man

Howard Timmins, 1958

jacket is rubbed,marked and edgeworn.light marks,foxing.well bound.signed and inscribed by the Author.[J.K]. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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Bennett, Benjamin : This Was a Man

Howard B Timmins, Cape Town, 1958

264 pages (complete). Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Bennett on the first free page (dated: Cape Town, August 1958). A gently aging copy of this biography of the advocate and sportsman, Beauclerk Upington. The dustjacket has a clear cellophane protective cover. The dustjacket is scuffed, rubbed, marked, worn all about. It is secure and sure. The boards have not been blessed with careful ownership. They have wear, stains, marks all about. Nonetheless, they are assured and steady. The contents are aged. Due to paper quality, the pages have tanning (mostly about the edges). They are nonetheless, benign, still keen, clear, clear, congenial. fk. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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BENNETT, Benjamin : This Was a Man

Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1958

Very good in the original dark cream boards, spine darkened, light marking front board, lacking fep. A fine INSCRIBED PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION copy: "To The Hon. A. van de Sandt Centlivres. In appreciation of his kind co- operation and assistance while the book was being written. Benjamin Bennett Cape Town August 1958". Albert van der Sandt Centlivres (13 January 1887–19 September 1966) was Chief Justice of South Africa from 1950 to 1957 Centlivres studied at the South African College (now the University of Cape Town) and at New College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1910 and took silk in 1927. In 1935 he was appointed a judge of the Cape Provincial Division, and in 1939 he became a Judge of Appeal in the Appellate Division, South Africa's highest court..

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