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The Story of the Guides.
by YOUNGHUSBAND, G. J
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
London.: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. [Reprint].. 1908.. Black and white portrait frontispiece with browned tissue-guard, b&w photographic plates, xvi + 207pp, index, light foxing edges, first and last leaves and occasional internal leaves, endpapers browned, edges uncut, corners, head and tail of spine little worn, gilt emblem of the 'Guides' on the upper cover and gilt lettering spine, overall a nice copy. Chapters include: First Steps in War; The Fighting Around Mooltan and After; The Capture of the Fort of Gorindghar; On the Frontier in the 'Fifties; The Story of Dilawur Khan; The Great March to Delhi; Twenty Years of Minor Wars; The Massacre of the Guides at Kabul; The Afghan War, 1878-80; War Stories; The Adventures of Shah Sowar and Abdul Majid; The Relief of Chitral; The Malakand, 1997; and The Home of the Guides. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 216367
- Title
- The Story of the Guides.
- Author
- YOUNGHUSBAND, G. J
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- [Reprint].
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1908.
- Keywords
- Afghanistan, India, Military, South Asia, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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About the Seller
Asia Bookroom
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
About Asia Bookroom
Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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- Gilt
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- Tail
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- Edges
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