Rev. W. Urwick

Indian Pictures, Drawn with Pen and Pencil

London/New York, The Religious Tract Society/Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 220p. A large hardcover book bound in gilt-decorated green cloth. Good condition overall. The edges are heavily worn, with the corners rubbed through and the edges of the spine cloth splitting. There are two horizontal slits in the spine as well. Several scratch marks on the back cover. The hinges, once cracked, have been repaired with archival tape; the binding is still a bit shaky, but holds well enough for reading purposes. The text is unmarked. A worn but readable copy. A scarce book on the sites and culture of 19th-century British India, illustrated with lots of beautiful black and white engravings. Measures approx. 11.25" x 8. Good .

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Book number: 182994

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John H. Waller

Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War

NY, Random House, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 329p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Account of the British army's failure to conquer Afghanistan at the height of the so-called Great Game between Britain and Russia. Includes black and white plates. .

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Book number: 121646

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Keywords: India

Philip Warner

Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend

New York, Atheneum, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 247p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a dustjacket in near-fine condition. The book is clean and tight, and the cover is in excellent condition apart from mildly bumped corners. The dustjacket is mildly creased on the corners, but is in fine condition otherwise. A biography of Horatio Herbert Kitchener, an important British officer of the Boer Wars. Contains two sections of black and white photographs. .

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Book number: 144409

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Jacob Wassermann

Bula Matari: Stanley: Conqueror of a Continent

New York, Liveright Inc, 1933. Hardcover. 351p. A light brown cloth hardcover book in good condition. Rear hinge cracked. Spine text and panels rubbed. Otherwise, pages are clean. A good reading copy. Biography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Translated from German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Includes several black and white plates. .

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Book number: 140264

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Howard Whitehouse

Battle in Africa 1879-1914

Nottinghamshire, Fieldbooks, 1987. Paperback. 48p. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A large-format softcover book in fine condition. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated by Peter Dennis. .

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Book number: 176018

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Rev. Henry Martyn; Rev. S. Wilberforce, ed

Journal and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D. , Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to the Honorable East India Company

New York, M.W. Dodd, 1851. First American Edition, Abridged. Hardcover. 466p. A hardcover book in accepable condition. The edges are heavily worn, especially along the back edge of the spine. The head and foot of the spine are worn down. Smudges and light soiling all over cloth. Early owner's inscription on front endpaper, dated 1871. Heavy foxing throughout, but text otherwise unmarked, and binding tight. Rev. Martyn was an Evangelical minister with the British East Indian Company (pre-Mutiny). Fair .

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Book number: 195700

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Sir Francis Younghusband

The Light of Experience: A Review of Some Men and Events of My Time

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1927. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 305p. Ex-library hardcover book in good condition. Original cloth, without a jacket. Old library markings including spine label, stamps on title page, glue residue where endpaper pocket removed. Text is clean and complete, tight and unmarked. Excellent reading copy. Memoirs of a British officer in India and the Northwest Frontier in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Includes his service in the Chitral Campaign and the Invasion of Tibet. .

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Book number: 1249424

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Col. G.J. Younghusband

The Story of the Guides

London, Macmillan, 1909. Reprint. Hardcover. 207p. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Covers worn; spine faded; 1-in. wide stripe of fading along top of back cover; otherwise clean and tight. Inscribed by the author. .

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Book number: 143190

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