King, of the Khyber Rifles
by Mundy, Talbot
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co.. Hardcover. Fair. Hutchinson & C0., London. Undated circa 1925? Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 17th Thousand. Original beige cloth boards with red line banding to front and black titles on red panels to spine. Front hinge cracked but binding tight. Boards discoloured and spine faded and scuffed. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Pages browned. Occasional scattered foxing to front endpapers, prelims, fore-edge and in text. Top edges of pages 293-310 rough cut where separated. Not ex-library. No notes or inscriptions. 320 pages. A very scarce copy. All books are individually described.
Synopsis
King of the Khyber Rifles is a novel by British writer Talbot Mundy. Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of the First World War. Heavily influenced both by Mundy's own unsuccessful career in India and by his interest in theosophy, it describes his adventures among the tribes of the north with the mystical woman adventurer Yasmini and the Turkish mullah Muhammed Anim. The Khyber Rifles was and is an actual regiment.
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- Bookseller
- Soin2Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000536
- Title
- King, of the Khyber Rifles
- Author
- Mundy, Talbot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Pages
- 320
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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