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Doug,

I agree, I try to display the best I can, I am sure you will do a good job.
Good idea about the maps, I have used maps as a background and it can be effective.
Just took the photo so the lighting is not too good.




Paul

Doug wrote: Paul

I am hoping the refurbishment and extension will be around 5-6 months, so in for late summer. I am spending lots of time thinking about how to display the items. I don't really want them locked away, but was thinking of some pertinent maps on the wall alongside the books for easy reference.

Doug.

Paul

Looking great. I might need some designer help looking at this

Doug.

what a comprehensive collection Paul, impressive.

Books on South Africa that I rec'd for Christmas this year.....

KHAKI IN SOUTH AFRICA, Geo. Newnes, Ltd, London, ex-Zion Chapel, Manchester, First Edition

5th PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES DRAGOON GUARDS, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, By Major Pomeroy, First Edition

THE STORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, By Ridpath, Clarke, Cooper and Aken, Guelph Ontario, Second Edition

MEMOIRS OF PAUL KRUGER, By Himself, 1902, (Note inside Colonial Edition for Circulation only in the British Colonies and India, First Edition)

THE BOER FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, By Michael Davitt, 1902, First Edition

Military but Non-Boer War Books:

THE MADMAN AND THE BUTCHER, Sam Hughes and Arthur Currie, by Tim Cook, 2010

DAD'S ARMY, WALMINGTON GOES TO WAR, Complete Scripts of Series 1-4, By Perry and Croft, 2001

CANADA'S GREAT WAR ALBUM, By The History Channel 2014

THE GREAT WAR HANDBOOK, By Bridger, 2014

HUMOROUS SCOTTISH WAR STORIES AN CARTOONS, Selected from the Daily Mail of WW1, By Allan Junior, 1930

Mike

A new book added to the collection this week, purchased from The Minster Bookshop York for a bargain price

www.ghsmithbookshop.com/index.php?main_p...info&products_id=180

Regards
Paul

Just finished 'Die Mauser Knal' by JF Van Wyk which is the memoirs of a 16 year old Penkop fighting with the Boers in the Western Transvaal and am currently busy with 'Fire in the sky by' by Owen Coetzer which is about the destruction of the Free State 1899-1902, after that I have acquired a 1941 first edition copy of ' Vir Vryheid En Vir Reg' By General JC Kemp. Needless to say being English speaking the Afrikaans books are challenging to read but happily my speed is improving