Pearman Sergeant John (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Leigh Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and rubbing to top and bottom of largely red jacket and spine, spine slightly faded, large 'skinned' patch and remains of old sticky label to top front jacket, corners rubbed and bruised, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 159pp, map endpapers. The hard life of a Victoran soldier. The author and historian seventh Marquess of Anglesey(1922-2013), when researching his history of the British Cavalry came upon the manuscript memoirs of Sergeant John Pearman (1819-1908). Quite a scarce book.

First Edition. Edited by the Marquess of Anglesey. Pp. 160(last blank), 16 plates,2 full page text illustrations, text and endpaper maps, biographical notes, source notes, appendix, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, tiny nick to fore-edge centre of upper board; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and creased, with a couple of small chips; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1968. First edition. *Memoir based on letters John Pearman wrote from India to his family between 1845 and 1853. Also 'recording his later life in the newly formed police force; the piece of undercover detection that traced the writer of a poison-pen letter and earned Pearman promotion; his eighteen years as Inspector at Eton College; the epidemic of scarlet fever that struck down his family of eleven' [wrapper blurb].