Published by Thacker Spink and Co, Calcutta, India, 1916
Language: English
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. MacRae, F C (illustrator). 1st Edition. A collection of the authors' humorous remembrances of a life in Scotland and India as a rugby player, horse-owner, merchant and civil servant. Includes b/w photograph of Lady Carmichael pasted-in frontispiece along with 24* pasted in b/w photographs and illustrations and b/w drawings within the text. Viii+138pp. Quarter bound in brown cloth with remainder of boards covered in illustrated paper. Light shelf-wear to paper covered boards with some minor staining. Corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and page edges.
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Very Good. Macrae, F. C. (illustrator). first edition. "All profits from sale are given to H. E. Lady Carmichael's Bengal Women's War Fund." Quarto, pictorial boards with cloth spine. vii +138 pages. Frontis. of Lady Carmichael. Illustrated with both tipped in photographs and drawings, and some sketches in the text. Some foxing throughout. Bottom corners bumped; some light creasing on a few pages. Small scratch along top board.SIGNED by the author, Allan Arthur. With a bookplate of N. Campbell, with a boar's head and the motto: Ne Obliviscaris. "Being mainly Sir Allan Arthur's personal experiences in the "Land of Humour' in Scotland, India, and elsewhere with a few non-original but perfectly fresh Chestnuts. Also a number of Caricatures and Sketches by Mr. F. C. Macrae and others." 012204A.