Buy this book on-line HART, MATTHEW: : Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love AffairLONDON.FOURTH ESTATE,2002. ISBN 184115279X.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip - absence of publisher's price - to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,black background with super-imposed colour
diamonds,photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with white+grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A small indent to top panel of dw/dj,lightly affecting the board beneath in concomitant spot.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - one intentional dog-ear diagonal reading crease to top corner of pp47/8,else otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2- 287pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters, some b/w photographs and b/w diagrams scattered throughout the text and the book,an appendix,a select bibliography, acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,author's note and another title separator page.
Prized above all other gems for their beguiling lustre,diamonds have trailed through history a dazzling chronicle of human desire.Their story is both brutal and exotic,inspiring crimes of passion and cold-blooded efficiency,bewitching the greatest film-stars and the most opulent courts,and providing the incentive for adventure and greed on a monumental scale.
No one company is more identified with diamonds than the South African-based De Beers,the operators of the infamous diamond cartel.They are secretive,discreet and very,very powerful,even contriving to lure Russia into their cartel when a huge number of diamonds were discovered in Siberia.80% of the world's rough diamonds flowed into De Beer's hands.A strike in Northern Canada could hardly seem to trouble such a titanic empire.And yet it did - sparking a diamond rush into territory over which the cartel had no influence,by prospectors they did not own.And the strike promised enormous riches.
Here is the full story of an event to topple the diamond kings.Through it is woven the history of the world's most acclaimed diamonds,the process by which they are cut,fashioned,smuggled and stolen,the legends and superstitions that are attached to them,the characters who comprise the great diamond prospectors and,above all,of the shadowy hand of De Beers for whom diamonds are forever.
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