Author: Sir William Barton
Title: India&Apos;S North-West Frontier
Description: London, John Murray , 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce illustrated work on India's north-west frontier, written by William Barton. The first edition. Illustrated with twelve monochrome plates including two maps. Collated complete. Preface by the Marquess of Willingdon.This scarce work was written by William Barton, a British historian who worked in the Indian Political Service and was a well known authority on the North-West Frontier in India, the topic of this work. Barton discusses the frontier and the politics, tribes and imperial strategy, with accounts of what life was like there. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with marks to the boards and slight bumping to the extremities. Tidemarks to the tails of the endpapers with a bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper and light offsetting. Front hinge tender after the front blanks. Internally pp. xiii disbound but present with strain in places, otherwise generally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with tidemarks to the tails of the pages to the front and rear, scattered spotting to pp. 32-33 and the odd spot and minor mark throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None stated. Very Good .

Keywords: First edition Scarce India Illustrated Scarce None stated


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