MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY HALLAM PARR. RECOLLECTIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE, with a Short Account of his Two Sons, Lieutenants A.H.H Parr and G.R.Parr
by MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY HALLAM PARR. Edited by, FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, Sir Charles
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About This Item
London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1917. . 8vo.,pp.352, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; rubbed and lightly worn to extremities, with creasing and bubbling where cloth is lifting from boards to front and spine, front free endpaper stuck to paste-down, ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, webbing occasionally visible to gutter and half title and frontispiece are loose but contents o/w firm, foxing to title and half title, with occasional light foxing to margins, but still quite an acceptable good copy of this scarce title.
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- Title
- MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY HALLAM PARR. RECOLLECTIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE, with a Short Account of his Two Sons, Lieutenants A.H.H Parr and G.R.Parr
- Author
- MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY HALLAM PARR. Edited by, FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, Sir Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1917.
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- Gilt
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- Paste-down
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