With the Guards We Shall Go. A Guardsman's Letters in the Crimea 1854-1855. By Mabell, Countess of Airlie. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
by AIRLIE Mabell, Countess of
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Hodder & Stoughton,, 1933. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 18 monochrome plates on 16; original black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With a relavant cutting mounted on front paste-down. The letters are those of Captain Strange Jocelyn serving with the Scots Fusilier Guards. Includes a bibliography. Turan 485.
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- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- With the Guards We Shall Go. A Guardsman's Letters in the Crimea 1854-1855. By Mabell, Countess of Airlie. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
- Author
- AIRLIE Mabell, Countess of
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton,
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- military, crimea, crimean war, scots guards, scots fusilier guards, strange jocelyn, airlie, countess airlie
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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