Frontier Beyond Record Thirty Years by Oconnor Frederick (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. xiv, 355p, ills, map. Book shows wear but covers and spine near fine and pages clean and unmarked. Work and travels in India, Nepal, Tibet and Persia.

1st Ed. xiii + 355pp. + [ii]. publ. adverts. Port. frontis., many ills., map. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, indecipherable pencil inscription to pastedown, age toning, gilt lettered navy cloth, spine very sl. bumped and faded. India, Lhasa, Tibet, Persia, Siberia, Nepal. US$82.

Pp. xii, 355, (3). With one map and 22 illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth. Copy of Allan Uggla with his signature and bookplate (Ida and Allan Uggla). With some annotations in pencil by Allan Uggla. First edition. O'Connor spent thirty years in the service under the Government of India. After a few years in India he served in Tibet (was the first military attaché to Lhasa), and later on in Persia and Nepal. Enclosed to this work: 1. Letter to Allan Uggla from Sven Hedin dated 1922; 2. Letter from Ida to Allan Uggla dated Karakorum 1914; 3. The newspaper "Fars" in Persian dated 1914 with a poem by al-Molk (about the Swedes and Allan Uggla); 4. Postcard adressed to A. Uggla in Shiraz; 5. Letter in French to Ida Uggla (appeal for help of a person being in prison); 6. Thank you letter from Alf Ċberg to Claes Uggla. Captain Allan Uggla was in charge of the Swedish gendarmerie in Persia. According to O'Connor: "Captain Uggla, who took over the command during the summer in 1913 made an admirable Commandant - tactful, suave, a good linguist, and a good organiser. He was the man for this difficult post." (pp. 200-01).

First edition. 8vo. xiv, 353, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, two entries in the list of contents, both relating to the chapters concerning Persia, are underlined in red, so to a handful of lines within the respective chapters later on. Photographic frontispiece of the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) with "a rhinoceros shot in Nepal" (the image is repeated on the upper panel of the jacket) plus a sketch map and 21 photographic plates - all but one two to a page, the full page plate being a portrait of His Highness Maharaja Sir Chandra Sham Sher Jang "Late Prime Minister of Nepal". Jacket edge worn with losses and with the shadow of old tape repairs which have now been removed, spotting to the edges of the text block, the book otherwise very good. Serving in India and Kashmir in the 1890s, O'Connor was subsequently a member of Younghusband's mission to Tibet in 1903-4, in which he acted as interpreter and intelligence officer and was later posted to Persia (Iran) where he was arrested and held for many months by the Persian army. In 1918 he was sent to Siberia before spending his last years in Sikkim and Nepal.

355pp. Index. 23 photographs. Political officer who served on the NW Frontier, Tibet, Persia and Nepal. With Younghusband in Lhasa, Consul at Shiraz and Resident in Kathmandu. Very good indeed in complete but darkening dustwrapper. An excellent copy. Form.

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