Beyond the Chindwin. Being an Account of the Adventures of Number Five Column of the Wingate Expedition into Burma, 1943. This item is unavailable.Beyond the Chindwin. Being an Account of the Adventures of Number Five Column of the Wingate Expedition into Burma, 1943

Later printing. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, signed by the author to the head of the title page, with a little red arrow added by a previous owner pointing this out, plus an inscription from him to the American astronaut Walter Schirra apologising for "this being a "Young Readers" edition!", dated Auckland, 16 March, 1966, the pictorial bookplate of another owner to the front pastedown and the verso of the rear free endpaper. Frontispiece portrait and 10 photographic illustrations, mostly two to a page. Very good.