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Orpen, Stephen : The Story Of Hubert Davies

Boards are edgeworn.Internally clean.Excellent binding.111 pages.Undated.[R.K]. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Orpen, Stephen : The Story Of Hubert Davies

The boards are shelf rubbed.Internally clean.Tightly bound.Very good copy.Bilingual.[R.K]. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Orpen, Stephen : The Story of Hubert Davies

Hudaco, 1966

the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. sunned. minor foxing and a little marked. previous owner's inscription. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Orpen, Stephen : The Story of Hubert Davies

(Johannesburg: Hubert Davies, 1966)

Small 4to; pictorial papered boards; pp. (iv) + 111; several illustrations, incl. full colour. Extremities somewhat rubbed; light foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere; small blank label over earlier price or name on front free endpaper. Good to very good condition. Hudaco 75th anniversary publication. 'Despite the taste for amusements, however, most people contributed long hours toward the building of the gold mining industry, facilities to support it, and to the development of the city itself. In fact, by 1891 a visiting journalist, Dennis Edwards, had already noted that "the people are ambitious, and although there are many corrugated iron houses, most of the shops and offices are of stone or brick and some have pretentions to architectural design. A mania has set in for building; and stores, offices and private homes are being run up in every direction". Contributing towards this development was a single-minded young electrical engineer who had arrived in South Africa in 1889. Soon after his arrival he made a name for himself by installing the Witwatersrand's first electric light and telephone at the Jumpers Gold mine - where he was then employed - and as a result was soon asked to undertake a number of other electrical works. In 1891 he founded his own company, through which he became responsible for much of the electrical and mechanical innovation and installation in South Africa until his death in 1919. His name, of course, was John Hubert Davies and this is the story of the company he founded.'

ORPEN, Stephen : The Story of Hubert Davies

Privately Published, 1966

First Edition. Very good indeed in the original pictorial boards as issued.

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