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Schreiner, Olive : Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland

(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897)

First edition. 8vo; original green ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; pp. 264 + publisher's adverts.; frontis. Cloth rubbed and rather worn at extremities; spine somewhat cocked; re-cased, with new endpapers and cloth hinges; bookplate of Cameron McClure to front pastedown, with penned accession note beneath; frontis. tissue-guard missing; some foxing. Fair to good. (Mendelssohn II, p. 281; Hosken, p. 177) Features the gruesome frontispiece photograph showing the execution by hanging of three Africans. Olive Schreiner, Like her brother Theophilus Lyndall Schreiner, was once an outspoken apologist for Cecil John Rhodes, but completely changed her view of the arch imperialist. According to the dustwrapper blurb for the Donker edition of this book, "The reasons for her change of opinion are reflected in Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, an allegorical and savage attack on Rhodes and his British South-Africa Company. Through Peter Halket, a simple soldier engaged in putting down a rebellion in Mashonaland ... , Olive Schreiner slams Rhodes and his methods of implementing his ideals."

SCHREINER, Olive : Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1897

A very good copy in the original dark green cloth, spine faded and worn at head. else a clean tight example. The Hanging frontispiece, suppressed in later issues, is present.

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