Tales of the Outposts Series

A smart collection of three volumes from the Tales of the Outposts series, edited by author and soldier Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur Bethell. Three volumes of a twelve volume set, being volumes three, six, and nine. Tales of the Outposts series. A collection of stories from remote corners of the world, especially the British Empire, and told by people living in or with experience of those places. Most were originally published in Blackwood's, which found a large part of its circulation in those colonial locations. The project took three years, from 1930 to 1933, to complete and included contributions from notable authors and personalities, including: Sir Hugh Clifford, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Fredrick Marshman Bailey, and Alfred Noyes. This set contains: Tales of the Sea, 1932. Tales of Africa, 1933. Tales of the Border, 1943. Edited by Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur Bethell, a distinguished soldier in India in Edwardian times, and a successful author of the 1930s. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good.…