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Hardcover. Condición: Good+. First edition thus (no additional printings listed) , being a revision of "Yankee Girls in Zulu Land" (1887) with additional chapters. Original pictorial cloth, 192 pp+ 12 pp publisher's catalogue, illustrated with frontispiece (photo of president Oom Paul Kruger's house) + black and white drawings by G E Graves & E J Austen. Hardcover, good+. Cloth mottled, foxing along edges of textblock. Internally, previous owner's Christmas, 1900 gift inscription, foxing on endpapers, first gathering slightly ajar, lower corners of 3 adjoining leaves creased, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Description, history and travels in South Africa through the eyes of 3 Americans. History; travel; Boer War.