In Times of Peril: a tale of India
by G. A. Henty
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Griffith, Farran, and Co, c 1896. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. Undated. An early copy of Henty's ninth novel written in 1881. Blue cloth decorative boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Edges are bumped. Spine is age tanned. Front hinge is just beginning to crack. Tissue guard to frontispiece is foxed, otherwise pages are clean. Nineteen illustrations. Gilt page edges. Previous owner's dedication on title page.8vo. c1896
Synopsis
Very bright and pretty, in the early springtime of the year 1857, were the British cantonments of Sandynugghur. As in all other British garrisons in India, they stood quite apart from the town, forming a suburb of their own. They consisted of the barracks, and of a maidan, or, as in England it would be called, "a common," on which the troops drilled and exercised, and round which stood the bungalows of the military and civil officers of the station, of the chaplain, and of the one or two merchants who completed the white population of the place.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4814
- Title
- In Times of Peril: a tale of India
- Author
- G. A. Henty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Griffith, Farran, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c 1896
- Size
- 8vo.
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- Cloth
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- Age Tanned
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