S.A. Polisie Gedenkalbum 1913–1988 (South African Police Commemorative Album) Author: Compiled by Editorial Committee / SAP Public Relations
S.A. Polisie Gedenkalbum / S.A. Police Commemorative Album 1913–1988 (Scarce Military & State Africana)
A Monumental, Highly Detailed Jubilee Record Documenting 75 Years of South African Police History
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: S.A. Polisie Gedenkalbum 1913–1988 (South African Police Commemorative Album)
- Author: Compiled by Editorial Committee / SAP Public Relations
- Publisher: State Printer / Promedia Publications, Pretoria
- Publication Date: 1988
- ISBN-10: 0620127589
- ISBN-13: 9780620127585
- Edition Details: First Edition, Official Commemorative Jubilee Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy cloth deluxe binding with embossed national police emblem and gilt titles on face and spine (issued without dust jacket).
- Physical Format: Large Quarto (4to), comprehensive text block. Densely enhanced with historical military maps, division charts, roll of honour lists, and hundreds of rare archival black-and-white and color unit photographs.
- Language: Bilingual (Afrikaans and English parallel text formatting).
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Overall Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Boards: Tightly bound, square, and structurally solid. The heavy cloth boards exhibit minor, expected age-related shelf wear and slight, light bumping along the corner tips.
- Condition Specifics (Exterior): Shows standard, typical fading to the gilt lettering and the embossed emblem on the front face and spine, entirely common for the metallic foils utilized by the State Printer in the late 1980s.
- Interior / Text Block: Robustly bound and secure. The main text pages are remarkably clean, bright, and free of highlight markings, ink underlining, or dog-ears. The top edge of the text block is slightly dusty from standard open-shelf storage.
- Condition Specifics (Interior): Shows slight, light spotting (foxing) restricted to the preliminary pages (prelims) and endpapers, along with a very light, localized historic watermarking to the bottom margin of the preliminary pages only, completely stabilizing long ago and not encroaching onto the main historical body pages.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1988 to mark the 75th anniversary of the force's formation, the S.A. Polisie Gedenkalbum 1913–1988 stands as a monumentally detailed, authoritative primary historical record. The text provides a comprehensive breakdown of the police service—spanning early border operations, specialized detective divisions, internal security structures, and international deployments during both World Wars. As a scarce used collectible book, this volume is an absolutely invaluable reference document for military historians, medal researchers tracking provenance, and serious collectors of vintage South African state and political Africana.
Author Profile: SAP Editorial Board
Compiled directly by senior archival officers and public relations historians within the Department of Law and Order, this commemorative volume relies exclusively on official internal records, restricted police archives, and private division logs that are now completely unavailable to the general public.
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