The Keepers of the Gate
Book Description
b/w. map of Northern India printed inside front cover; b/w. frontis. illustration & 7 further throughout by A. Pearce; a stirring tale of the Indian or Sepoy Mutiny & the brave deeds of Britain's brave soldiers written barely a decade & a half after the event, so unlikely to refer to them as 'India's First Nationalist Uprising'. At the rear is a 64 page catalogue of Blackwood's publications.
Dealer Notes
First Edition; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Black titles spine; no Dust Jacket as published; previous owner's signature in ink to fep.; slight foxing to page edges
Author
Grier, Sydney C.
Date
1911
Binding
Hardback Pictorial Cloth Covers illustrated in orange & black over light brown
Publisher
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh
Illustrator
A. Pearce
Condition
Very Good Condition
Pages
325 + 64
Other books
If you liked the book you've just seen, you might be interested in other books from the same dealer below.
On the Frontier (SIGNED COPY)
Walker, Frank
The Lindsey Press, Cambridge & London
£15.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
Dragonflies (New Naturalist 106)
Corbet, Philip & Stephen Brooks
Collins, London
£45.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
Cambridge Fragments.
Sayle, Charles
Cambridge University Press; Cambridge
£20.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
The Life and Exploits Of Don Quixote De la Mancha...
Jarvis, Charles (translator)
Printed by W. Wilson for J. Bumpus et al
£600.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
Le Petit Prince, avec des aquarelles de l'auteur
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Heinemann; London
£20.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
The Ideals of Theosophy: Four Lectures delivered a...
Besant, Annie
The Theosophist Office, Madras, India
£30.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
The Bells of Hugglescote and Other Verses (SIGNED...
Wallace, Rev. J. Duncan C.
privately published
£10.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
Ted Mott's Cambridge: A Portrait of the City in Ol...
Rouse, Michael
S.B. Publications; Pipe Gate, Shropshire
£8.00
Offered by Bookbarrow
Friends of the PBFA
For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.