Author: SLATIN PASHA Rodolf C.
Title: Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895. Translated by Major F.R. Wingate. Illustrated by R. Talbot Kelly. [Introductory Note by Father Don Joseph Ohrwalder]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: Edward Arnold,, 1896. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in gravure (original tissue guard present), numerous plates and 2 folding coloured maps, frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original green pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, clean copy. An outstanding copy, sympathetically strengthened and with little or no trace of the usual textual browning. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: military, sudan, middle east, dervishes, slatin pasha, talbot kelly, omdurman, khartoum, gordon of khartoum, general gordon, chinese gordon, darfur


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