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Walton, G S : History of E H Walton Group 1845 to 1995

E H Walton Packaging (Pty) Ltd., Port Elizabeth, 1995

ISBN 0620196580

271 pages (complete). A casually owned copy. The thick card covers have wear and scuffing, rubbing from use. The spine has a small storage injury. The spine and covers are secure and sure. The frontispage has an ex-libris plate. The contents are benevolent, benign. There is some (occasional) evidence of use. In general, the pages are clean, clear, confident, dutiful, neat, tidy. fk. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Softcover. Jacket: No Jacket

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Walton, G. S : History of E.H. Walton Group 1845 to 1995

(Port Elizabeth: E. H. Walton Packaging, 1995)

4to; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xv + (i) + 271, incl. index; monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper somewhat edgeworn and rippled, with damp-stain to fore-edge of upper panel; likewise, rippling and slight damp-stain to bottom fore-corner of front free endpaper and early leaves. Good to very good condition. This impressive book provides the history of a small family business that has stood the test of time. Simultaneously, it is a history of the economic development of Port Elizabeth. "There is in it much history of Port Elizabeth with the emphasis on the port as the key to enterprise; there are the accounts of the careers of people who built the industries, of the founders of this business but also of the founders of other concerns that have shaped the city's growth."

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