Hind joseph (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Stapled. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The January 1934 issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include: Motives of an Overlord, a story by Ernest Haycox, Paris Adventure, a Saint story by Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin) (I haven't been able to determine where or if this story was published in a Saint story collection), Glamour, a story by Rosamond du Jardin, Three Men and Diana, part IV of a novel by Kathleen Norris, A Dog's Hind Leg, a Scattergood story by Clarence Budington Kelland, Death Rides the Mesa, part V of a novel Tom Gill, 1934's Challenge to the New Deal, an article by Thomas F Woodlock, Brave Old World, a short feature by Archibald Rutledge, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include light soiling to the front cover, spine wear with small loss at the top and bottom, and a 1.125" x .5" chip to the middle fore edge of the back cover. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine. Herbert Paus (cover), Matt Clark (Motives of an Overlord), Samuel N Abbott (Paris Adventure), Joseph Conde (Glamour), Walter Biggs (Three Men and Diana), Robert Gellert (A Dog's Hind Leg), Harold Von Schmidt (Death Rides the Mesa) (illustrator).…

First and only edition, scarce, just a single copy traced, at the University of Minnesota. The journal was compiled at the time from Hind's sprightly letters home by his sister Amelia and was lost for some years before rediscovery in 1914, this edition evidently produced in small numbers for family and friends. "Our father was only a young man of nineteen years of age when he went to join his Regiment in India, and therefore his letters were naturally written in a homely and boyish manner; but we think that on this account they will be none the less acceptable " (Preface). Hind saw action at Mudki and Ferozeshah, and gives brief accounts of these engagements, together with much detail on conditions on campaign in the Punjab. He subsequently served with the Turkish Contingent in the Crimean War, and the 26 BNLI having mutinied was attached to the Gurkhas with Campbell's Column in the final relief of Lucknow. After the Mutiny he was posted to the 104th Bengal Fusiliers, later Munster Fusiliers. Octavo. pp. 107. Original moderate reddish orange flecked cloth, title gilt to the front cover. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned and slightly frayed head and tail, a couple of faint damp spots, some colour transfer to the front pastedown; title page browned, pale toning to the text-block, binding cracked before last gathering, but sound; very good.…