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Good Afternoon Everyone......

Well, "She Who Must Be Obeyed", has given me the following as a birthday present.....

#85, The Boer Fight for Freedom by Michael Davitt

Looks like it is going to be a good read, now only missing 3 for the complete set.....

Mike

A complete set?

Frank Kelley wrote: A complete set?

Good Morning Frank.....

I understand that there are 11 in the set of books on the BW......

There were only 1000 copies of each reprint in this format.....

I know these have already been printed and I have some of them but this is an interesting set of books......

Now only need 3 from the set.....

#1. May 1985. General de Wet's Three Years' War. Facsimile of Scribner's 1902 edition.
#2. November 1985. Carter's Account of the [First] Boer War: its causes and results. Facsimile of third John Macqueen edition of 1900.
#3. June 1986. Offical English translation by Colonels Waters and Du Cane of the German Official Account of the War in South Africa. Two parts in one volume; 18 maps bound separately. Facsimile of John Murray editions of 1904 and 1906.
#4. June 1986. As told to H C Bedell and Piet Grobler. The Memoirs of Paul Kruger.
#5. December 1986. Brian Pottinger. The Foreign Volunteers. They Fought for the Boers, 1899-1902.
#6. April 1987. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Great Boer War.
#7. July 1987. Paul Butterfield. War and Peace in South Africa 1879-1881. A new book on the first Anglo-Boer, based on the letters and diaries of Philip Anstruther and Edward Essex.
#8. October 1987. Howard C Hillegas. With the Boer Forces. Facsimile of Methuen's third illustrated edition of 1900.
#9. December 1987. Captains Slocum and Reichmann. Boer War Operations in South Africa. Facsimile of U S Government Printing Office edition of 1901.
#10. April 1988. Michael Davitt. The Boer Fight for Freedom. [Davitt, who resigned as a British Member of Parliament in protest against Britain's actions, came to South Africa as an observer of the war, and followed mainly General Philip Botha, to whose memory his book is dedicated.] Facsimile of third Funk and Wagnalls illustrated edition of 1902.
#11. April 1989. Mario Lupini. Camillo Reichmann. Italian Boer War Hero. Newly written for the series.

Mike

p.s. The photo is of the sent from an online source.....

Okay, what does the "#85" refer to in your original post?

Frank Kelley wrote: Okay, what does the "#85" refer to in your original post?

Each volume is limited to 1000 signed copies...... My copy is #85......

Mike

Ah, now I see, was rather confused before.