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Buy Something of Value - Robert Ruark - Softcover - 358 Pages for R35.00

About the product 4to; original black cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 100, incl. index; full-colour frontis. and 34 full-colour plates. Edgeworn dustwrapper has section torn from lower panel (with loss); previous owner's name on front pastedown; some foxing to endpapers and prelims. Fair to good condition."This book is an attempt to make a few of the flowers which may be found in the Colony more readily recognisable both by the visitor to Southern Rhodesia and by Rhodesians themselves.... It is hoped that the colour plates will assist not only in identification of particular flowers, but also in revealing something of the beauty that is to be seen in the veld." Rhodesian Wild Flowers (Robert A. S. (text) Martineau, and Margaret H. Phear (illustrator))