King of the Khyber Rifles
by MUNDY Talbot
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Constable, 1917 THIRD IMPRESSION November 1917, olive cloth with red titling to upper board and spine, military figure with pith helmet and cigarette to spine, joints splitting to lower halves, edges rubbed, corners lightly frayed, pencil name to fep, 344pp + frontis + 6 double page plates, illustrated by J C Coll in line ( on the plates) . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by J C Coll. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
Synopsis
King of the Khyber Rifles is a novel by British writer Talbot Mundy. Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of the First World War. Heavily influenced both by Mundy's own unsuccessful career in India and by his interest in theosophy, it describes his adventures among the tribes of the north with the mystical woman adventurer Yasmini and the Turkish mullah Muhammed Anim. The Khyber Rifles was and is an actual regiment.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005422
- Title
- King of the Khyber Rifles
- Author
- MUNDY Talbot
- Illustrator
- J C Coll
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Modern First Edition Action Thriller Early Twentieth Century Fiction Khyber India Raj Novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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