Major Robert Campbell (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Slight water stain and small ring on front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Complete Set of Signed Papers,10 Downing Street Letters and Bookplates of British Prime Ministers from the 20th Century including Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury) , Arthur James Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, James Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee, Sir Winston Churchill (Printed 1945 Letter) , Sir Anthony Eden (Avon), Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Sir Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Sir John Major and Tony Blair. Various sizes and dates. The Churchill letter is an original printed House of Commons letter sent out by Churchill in 1945. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 19350/19352/19353/19444/19311/19312/19250/19251/. Signed by Author(s).…

2 Norfolk Street, Strand [1837]. Major Robert Calder Campbell (17981857), soldier and miscellaneous writer. He was made a cadet in the East India Company's service in 1817; promoted to captain in 1826; served in Burma from 182627; was invalided home in 1831; settled in London; promoted to major in 1836; and retired in 1839. He published verse and prose from 18311857. Upon returning from India, Campbell was introduced by the sculptor Alexander Munro to Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, with whom he became good friends. He subsequently published short stories, prose sketches and poetry in numerous periodicals and assisted with the publication of the Germ in 1850.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Barton's Grizzly - Well-known Western hunter and guide J. Barton sets out to single-handedly capture a live California grizzly bear (includes cover illustration); In Search of Adventure - Part IV - the story of a chequered cruise; Kidnapped - A Tale of the Burmese Border in which Sir Robert Carson retrieves his kidnapped daughter; An Interrupted Holiday - John Hawkins was tramping through Idaho in 1886; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part II - J. Campbell Besley and his party continue their journey from the source of the Amazon to the Atlantic, fighting for their lives along the way; Three Years off the Beaten Track - H.E. Weller spent three years in Northern Canada running a small steamer for the Hudson's Bay Company among fur traders and Indians - article with many interesting photos; A Prize-Fight in Mexico - amusing story of what happened when a Spaniard fought an American; Life Among the Eskimos - Clint Wiseman describes a visit he paid to these hardy little hunters of north, complete with photos; The Story of the Missing Fingers - the awful experience of Melvin Parker who fell overboard and clung to a bell-buoy for many hours in the depth of winter; Fallen Among the Theives - exciting adventures of two novice rubber-collectors in Central America, by Rowland W. Cater; Hotel-Keeping in the Wilds - two ex-members of the Cape Mounted Rifles and their hotel-keeping adventures out on the veldt; and more. pp. 9 [ads], 94, 10-32 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Somerfield, Webb, Arch.; Wright, Frank; Whitaker, W.G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Holloway, W.H.; Buchanan, Fred (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Hand sewn briefs. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. In Very Good condition with small tears to the corners of the 1836 paper. With hand written double-sided folded letter signed by Lord H (F?). Jeffrey, 20, June 1839. Member of the P.B.F.A. LAW, JUSTICE, LEGAL SYSTEM.