Cailloux Pousse (4 results)

Green/Blue Cloth. Condition: Good/Fair. No Dust Jacket. Second Impression. Originally published September 1930, second impression August 1931, (viii), 332pp, edges foxed, some foxing internally also, ex-library W H Smith & Sons Library, with their bookplate to pastedown, spine starting to crack in a couple of places but binding is holding firm, green/blue cloth with gilt spine lettering (dulled), black lettering and border to upper board, corners bumped and a little frayed, some scuffs and maks to boards, spine browned and bumped top and bottom. Size: 7.5 x 5 Inches. Fiction.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo.pp.332. Fiction. The first two chapters were reissued in Blackwood's Tales from the Outpost. VIII. Jungle Tales in 1934. POUSSE CAILLOUX is the pseudonym of Lt-Col Leonard Arthur Bethell 1879-1950 (Indian Army.) Original publisher's binding of dark green cloth with black lettering. Very good-minus. Remains of Boots Book-Lovers Library label on cover & pastedown. Slight wear to spine hinges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. [viii], 294 pages. Blue cloth covers with red spine panel. Top edges dyed red. No signatures. Cloth covers clean and bright. 3/4" circular hole cut away from dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. Contents: "Mankind and the Jungle" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "True Foresters" by John Still; "Tanks" by John Still; "Lost Sepoys" by 'Pousse Cailloux'; "In the Heart of Kalimantan" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "Hpa-N-Khrit" by 'Sinjab'; "Highbrows and Lowbrows" by 'Pousse Cailloux'; "The Quest of the Golden Fleece" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "Primitive Socialist" by Edward Irving; "The Other Master" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "The Death-March of Kulop Sumbing" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "Movable Columns" by 'Pouse Cailloux'; "White Man's Ground" by 'Selim'. "They are that rare and precious thing, which politicians ignore and professional history hardly hears, the voice of 'the man on the spot'" - reviewer's quote on front flap of dust wrapper.; 12mo.…

Condition: Good. A good clean sound copy of the First Edition with just an unfortunate blemish to the bottom right hand corner, publishers cloth. 8vo.vi.332pps no ownership marks.[The first two chapters were reissued in Blackwood' Tales from the Outpost. VIII. Jungle Tales in 1934].