KING --- OF THE KHYBER RIFLES: A ROMANCE OF ADVENTURE by Mundy, Talbot \[pseudonym of William Lancaster Gribbon\] - 1916

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1916]. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company A Fair to good copy lacking the dust jacket. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover [per Donald M. Grant in Talbot Mundy: Messenger of Destiny page 194], first printing/issue: green cloth with gold gilt lettering, 395 pages, no ads, and with the author's name mis-spelled as "TALBOTT MUNDY" on the title page, however, while Grant calls for a frontispiece plus six double-page plate illustrations, this copy appears to be lacking one of the latter [the one that would fall between pages 226 and 227]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist page 145]. Reginald 10517. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 294]. Name mostly effaced from front free endpaper, binding cracked near rear, some corners dogeared [with piece off one of them]; else generally a VG copy, lacking the jacket. bx275