A CALL TO ARMS. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,12mo p/back,author SIGNED,1st edn,3rd imp.[Transworld Publishers Ltd.,are a British publishing house based in Ealing,London.Its hardbacks are either published under the Doubleday or the Bantam Press imprint,whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan,Bantam or Corgi imprint.Title originally published as UK,8vo HB+dw/d,2002.This paperback 1st edn,3rd imprint,published 2003.Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4.] FINE-. No owner inscrptn,but author's brown ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price removal from card cover. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered.matt wrap-around colour illustrated card cover's artwork by Chris Collingwood,illustrated covers - illustration continues to inside of front cover - with embossed dark green,dark blue letters (author+title respectively), other white lettering to front cover,plus presence of a b/w circular adhesive 'Signed by the Author at Waterstone's' label; glossy,embossed letters and inevitable but slight sunning/fading to spine/ backstrip - which has NO reading creases,rear cover with dark green+black lettering of story synopsis and a critic's review.Top+fore-edges slightly toned but without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread apart from my own collation.UK, 12mo p/back,author SIGNED,1st edn,3rd imp,11- 373pp [paginated] includes foreword, Pts 1+2 comprising 12 chapters each; plus [unpaginated] 3pp critics' acclaim for previous published titles,author SIGNED title page,title separator page,double page b/w map (Birman Empire),an epigram (Book of Job), individual Pts separator pages - Pt 1 with prose extract of poem by Percy Byshe Shelley and prose extract from Abbe Dubois respectively,and to the rear,an historical afternote,author's potted biography,and 7pp publisher's advertisements.
It is 1819 and Matthew Hervey, in mourning for his beloved wife and disillusioned with military life,is kicking his heels in Rome when a chance encounter with an eminent English poet leads him to rethink his future.Spurred on,he is reunited with his much depleted regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons,and immediately charged with raising a new troop, for India beckons once again.But what begins as a relatively simple operation becomes a dark and dangerous march through the jungle as Hervey and his ill-equipped and inexperienced soldiers race to confront the Burmese war-boats massing on the borders near Chittagong,and the only way to thwart their advance involves a hazardous march through the jungle.Soon Hervey and his troop are in the midst of hot and bloody action once again. What Hervey and his greenhorn soldiers cannot know is that in India they will face a trial for which they are ill prepared.
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