Excerpt: ...into them a cross-fire at a few hundred yards. Down went the colonel dead; down went fifty men. For a second a few of the rawer hands in the regiment wavered; it might have been serious. But the rest clung doggedly to their position under cover; the officers brought the flurried men up to the bit again. The mountain guns turned vengeful towards the spot whence the fire came, and in a few minutes Pg 90 there was another spreading, blackening patch of veldt
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Excerpt: ...into them a cross-fire at a few hundred yards. Down went the colonel dead; down went fifty men. For a second a few of the rawer hands in the regiment wavered; it might have been serious. But the rest clung doggedly to their position under cover; the officers brought the flurried men up to the bit again. The mountain guns turned vengeful towards the spot whence the fire came, and in a few minutes Pg 90 there was another spreading, blackening patch of veldt
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Seller's Description:
1900-01-01. William Blackwood and Sons. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles on spine, black titles on front. Brown cloth boards. Spine and extremities rubbed. Front board marked. 8x5.
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Seller's Description:
Vg in gilt-stamped cloth boards, no dust jacket as issued; minor fraying to board corners, toning to spine, owner name on ffep else a tight square unmarked copy; first printing with folding map affixed to page 49 (map is intact but has a few small tears)
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8+1+180+32 pages, maps (one folding): an unfinished record of a South African war correspondent, Mendelssohn II.432 "he was beseiged in Ladysmith and gives a vivid account"; hardback, original mustard coloured boards, lightly foxed to edges ow vg.
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Poor. No Jacket. The boards are marked and worn. The binding has been repaired. Some foxing, creasing and damp marking. Several ownership inscriptions and some annotating. The folding map is missing. Poor.
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Good. No Jacket. Library markings. The boards are a bit rubbed, edgeworn and soiled. The front hinge is going but the binding is still sound. One signature and some pencilled scribbling. Foxing throughout but lightly in the text.
