Colonel Paget (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text is unmarked, though the pages are yellowed and the page edges are age toned. The page edges and end pages are foxed. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly foxed and shows edge wear, with little chips missing from the corners and from the head and base of the spine. 189pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. (1967) 190 pp. Original olive green paper covered boards w/ brown cloth spine. Edges a bit sunned; spine ends slightly bumped. Yellow highlighting to several lines in Foreword; underlining and notations in black marker to several leaves. Few leaves dog-eared. DJ lightly soiled w/ two closed tears at top edge of rear panel; small chip to top edge of front panel near spine. Illust. w/ b/w maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Hard cover published by Chapman and Hall in London in 1894. No dust jacket. Tan covers with gilt design and lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. Spine is darkened. Corners of covers are bumped and worn, and ends of spine are worn and frayed. Covers have some scuffing and stains. Inside front cover has a pasted-on small piece of paper with a number on it in upper corner. Endpapers are heavily foxed, and some pages have foxing. Pullout map in front of book has a tear and some foxing. Book is in fair condition. 108 pages, 1.2 lbs.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 108 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A very scarce contemporary account of frontier skirmishes and expeditions taking place in British-ruled India following the annexation of the Punjab. Initially published a decade prior in Calcutta, this edition has been expanded up to the year 1884 by Lieutenant A.H. Mason. Very scarce in all editions.Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece, and twenty-eight further folding maps. Collated, complete.This incredibly detailed and informative work offers an account of the expeditions undertaken against north-west frontier tribes following the annexation of the Punjab.The work was prompted by the desire of the Punjab Government to create a record 'of the expeditions made from time to time against the frontier tribes, with such further information as might render the work a valuable guide to those who might have future dealings with these turbulent neighbours'.With the blind stamp of the United Service Library to the head of the title page, and two library date stamps to the reverse of the frontispiece. No further library markings.Divided into nineteen chapters, the work details numerous accounts of frontier expeditions against tribes, accompanying them with explanatory maps. In a cloth binding. Two vertical ink marks to front board, with light tide mark to head of front board, and further tide mark running the length of the rear board. Tide mark to rear pastedown and free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Blind stamp to head of title page. Ink library stamps to reverse of frontispiece. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, with the odd handling mark and light spot. Very Good. book.

Condition: Very Good -. London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; [6],108pp.; folding color map, full-page illus. throughout. Moderate wear to cloth margins, most notably at spine ends, spine quite toned, textblock heavily foxed, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good, clean and sound copy.