Mason, Philip,
SKINNER OF SKINNER'S HORSE - A Fictional Portrait.
André Deutsch, London, 1979, 1st edn., 241pp inc. 6pp Background Notes, 2 maps, ochre cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, a novel based on the 19th century Anglo-Indian soldier James Skinner, the son of a Lt.-Col. in the East India Co. Army and an Indian Rajput princess, who raised two regiments of irregular cavalry elements of which still exist today, but who also suffered from the traditional conflict of loyalties of an Anglo-Indian, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., slightly sunned at spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
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Keywords: fiction historical india east company cavalry