Hira Singh When India Came to Fight in Flanders de Mundy, Talbot

McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1918. 306 browning edged pages, green oriental ltrs embossed cloth, heavily soiled gilt ltrs and decorative design on spine, pictured frontiespiece is present, edges are shelf dust soiled, corners/edges/ and head-heel of spine are bumped/worn/and frayed, brown spots on all edges--not foxing, white spots on covers, tight.. Unknown Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Illus. by Coll, J. Clement.

Paperback / softback. New.

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+. 1918. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1910, he ran into Jeff Hanley, a reporter who had covered his mugging incident; Hanley was impressed by Mundy's tales of India and Africa, and lent him a typewriter, suggesting that he write some of his stories down for potential publication. Mundy did so, and published his first short story, "A Transaction in Diamonds", in the February 1911 issue of Frank Munsey's magazine, The Scrap Book. His second publication was a non-fiction article, "Pig-sticking in India", which appeared in the April issue of a new pulp magazine, Adventure, which specialised in adventure fiction.… Leer más