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Bugles and a Tiger - a personal adventure
by Masters, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st thus (Michael Joseph ed in 1956), unclipped d/j (poor - missing half front, rest chipped/soiled); yellow boards,
- Seller
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About This Item
London: The Reprint Society, by arr. Michael Joseph, 1957. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st thus (Michael Joseph ed in 1956), unclipped d/j (poor - missing half front, rest chipped/soiled); yellow boards, gilt on red spine titling plate; text block firm, pages unmarked (some sunning on endpapers, light foxing on edges). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII. John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. BUGLES AND A TIGER is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War. Still very much the army depicted by Kipling, it stands on the threshold of a war that will transform the world. This book is the first of three volumes of autobiography that touched a chord in the post-war world.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132236
- Title
- Bugles and a Tiger - a personal adventure
- Author
- Masters, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st thus (Michael Joseph ed in 1956), unclipped d/j (poor - missing half front, rest chipped/soiled); yellow boards,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society, by arr. Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 319
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st thus, memoir, autobiography, Masters, India
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 12mo
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- Reprint
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- 1st Thus
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