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Hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 223pp., Bibliography. First edition, no additional printings listed. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. Small old bookseller’s label affixed to lower front free endpaper [History Bookshop, London]. No previous ownership marks. A tale of the Queen’s soldier’s off to rescue European hostages from a remote fortress in Ethiopia in the year 1867. Loosely based on real events, a rousing adventure yarn set in the hey-day of British Imperialism. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.