Search Results: fire and sword in the sudan by rudolf c slatin

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

CollectibleAcceptable. Vintage 1911 Edward Arnold. Red cloth hardcover with gold letters on spine. 416 pgs. Binding cracked. Title page have tanning. Pages have foxing, but are unmarked. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

London:: Edward Arnold,, 1897.. Fifth edition.. publisher's cloth.. Armorial bookplate; ink names on half-title; light foxing to texts. Inner hinges cracking; spine spotted and sunned; a little shaken but tight and sound.. 8vo,. Illustrated by R. Talbot Kelly; folding map.. Translated by Lieut.-Col. F. R. Wingate.

hardback. Very Good. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895. Translated by Colonel F.R.Wingate. With maps and illustrations. Popular edition. London (Arnold) 1898. A very good copy.

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Stated second edition with tissue-guarded frontis photograph of the author and 21 watercolor plates in black and white by Robert Talbot Kelly. 636 pages plus a selection of 32 pages of forthcoming works by Mr. Edward Arnolds. Includes two fold-out maps in the rear in excellent condition, One map shows Khartum and Omdurman and the second map is a large fold-out map, colored, showing the extent of Mhadist influence in 1895. In red cloth Hardcover with gilt illustration of racing camels embossed on cover and spine. Red color of the rear cover has bled out and lookes pale and pink instead of dark red. No damage to the inside of the book. Hinges a bit loose, but overall still a very readable copy of the title. Small research library withdrawl stamp else no markings .. Second Edition. Very Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London and New York: Edward Arnold. VG. 1896. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book is slightly cocked, binding is a bit loose but no pages starting. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Edgewear with fraying to corners, spine head and foot, several white spots and blotches on rear cover, near lower corner and spine. Cover is rubbed. Gilt design and title is still fairly bright save for band at spine foot ; Overall solid copy; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 636 p. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. First. hardcover. poor. Illustrations by Talbot Kelly. 2 folding maps. 636 pages, a bit loose in binding. Large 8vo, green cloth; (ex-lib labels and stamps some partially removed, binding rubbed, title page reinforced lacks front fly-leaf). London, 1896. First Edition. good(-).<br/> <br/>

London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 636; 2 folding maps printed in color at the back (one with a slightly ragged fore-edge), gravure frontispiece portrait, 21 plates by Talbot Kelly; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; some wear at the extremities, small break in the cloth at the top of the spine; all else very good.

London: Edward Arnold, 1899. The "Popular Edition", revised by the author, the binding decorated and in colour of the first printing. With 22 illustrations by R. Talbot Kelly who worked under the direct supervision of the author plus a folding plan of Khartum and Omdurman and a folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, blind framework to the covers. xviii, (2),416pp and 32pp ads. A very fine copy, attractive, bright, tight and well preserved, unusual thus, just a hint of spotting to the fore-edges and prelims. AN IMPORTANT BOOK AND AN UNCOMMONLY FINE AND BRIGHT COPY. “Slatin Pasha was by far the most important of the European prisoners in the Soudan. Before the Mahdi’s victories he held the post of Governor of Darfur, and was in command of large military forces. He fought no fewer than twenty-seven pitched battles before he was compelled to surrender, and is the only surviving soldier who has given an eye-witness account of the… Read More

Edward Arnold. Used - Acceptable. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Dec. cloth, 636 pp., illus., folding map. Hinges badly cracked, but holding. First few leaves detached; last few almost so. Head of spine worn. Folding map is in quite good condition, as are the plates. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Sound working copy.

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; [xx],636pp; frontispiece, 21 plates, 2 folding maps with printed color. Ownership inscription of Mrs. Stephen Crane [i.e. Cora Crane] to front pastedown. Rubbed, with mild wear and superficial abrasions to cloth; front hinge cracked; one map neatly detached but laid in, with split along one fold; occasional foxing: complete, Good only. Account of Slatin's time advising the Khalifa Abdullahi in captivity; the work became a bestseller, and influenced Britain's decision to colonize Sudan. Cora Crane was actually the common-law wife of Stephen Crane; she was legally still married to one Captain Donald William Stewart, a British military official who served in India and as the British Resident in the Gold Coast. She met Stephen Crane in 1896, traveled with him to Cuba, and remained with him until his death. [62556].

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [2], 636, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spine, a decoration in gilt of Slatin escaping from Sudan on a camel on the front board; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure of Rudolf C. Slatin, a color fold-out map in the rear showing Mahdist control over the region in 1895, a color fold-out plan of Khartoum, and 21 black and white plates illustrating scenes from Slatin's time as governor of Sudan, and subsequent capture and imprisonment at the hands of the Mahdists. Oxford DNB, "Slatin, Sir Rudolf Carl von". Pasha Slatin began his career in Sudan as governor of Dara, in south-western Darfur. Less than a year later he would go on to become governor-general of the whole province. In 1881, Muhammad Ahmad ibn 'Abdullahi declared himself the Mahdi of the Sudan, and with his followers escaped from Aba Island on the White Nile to the Nuba Mountains. Slatin led his… Read More

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. "Second Edition", but actually the second issue of the first edition, from the same sheets and identical but for the slug on the titlepage, same year as the first. With 22 illustrations and two folding maps. Large, thick 8vo, in the best publisher's binding of maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt pictorial decorations on the upper cover, t.e.g. This copy with the Baronial bookplate of Tredegar House, most likely from the time of Godfrey Morgan, 5th Baron and 1st Viscount of Tredegar. xix, 636pp. A beautifully preserved copy, quite uncommonly so, the cloth fresh and solid, the textblock firm and looking unread, only very minor age mellowing and minor bumping or rubbing to the tips and extremities. RARE AND ONLY THE SECOND ISSUE, RETAINING THE SIZE, FORMAT, AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE FIRST EDITION. An exceptional copy in the best maroon cloth binding of a book normally found quite well used and rubbed. The author was Governor and… Read More