Author: MASTERS John
Title: Bugles and a Tiger. A Personal Story. IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Michael Joseph,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, illustrations in the text and full-page map; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, dustwrapper panels and fold-ins mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. [SLIP-CASE NOT SHOWN IN IMAGE.] Masters' classic narrative of his service with 4th Gurkhas, Indian Army in the years preceding WWII. The best account of its kind since Yeats-Brown's 'Bengal Lancer' nearly thirty years earlier.

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