Seymour Vandeleur Lieutenant-Colonel, Scots Guards, & Irish Guards
by Maxse, Colonel F. I
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1906. Seymour Vandeleur, lieutenant-colonel, Scots Guards & Irish Guards : a plain narrative of the part played by British officers in the acquisition of colonies and dependencies in Africa representing a dominion of greater extent than India added to the British Empire in less than twenty years / by F.I. Maxse ; with water-colour illustrations by Nico Jungmann. First edition thus. Hard cover. Published London: William Heinemann, 1906. 4to., 7 1/2" x 9 3/4", 288pp., illus. color frontis, captioned tissued guarded color and b/e plates, color folding maps. Blue clotgh with gilt and black titles. Foxing to edges of page block, light occasional foxing, spine darkened, else very good, tight, complete. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010429
- Title
- Seymour Vandeleur Lieutenant-Colonel, Scots Guards, & Irish Guards
- Author
- Maxse, Colonel F. I
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- England & Europe; Military;
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