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Private Frank Richards. Old Soldier Sahib. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1936.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy in a d/j that is almost not there. Only the front cover and flap survive now held together by mylar. Author of Old soldiers Never Die, survived many campaigns in WW1 to write of his time in India after the war.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Private Frank Richards. OLD SOLDIER SAHIB. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1936.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 310p. A beige cloth hardcover book in very good condition. The spine is tanned and slightly cockeyed. Interior clean and binding secure. A soldier's memoir of British India. The first American edition with introduction by Robert Graves, whom bibliographers claim actually rewrote the entire book.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
RICHARDS, Private Frank. Old Soldier Sahib. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, (New York), 1936.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Introduction by Robert Graves. Octavo. 310pp. The top edge of the binding is very lightly foxed, else a fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and small chip on the front panel, and a few tiny nicks with a couple of old internal mends. *Higginson & Williams* A44b: "Graves rewrote this book"
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Floethe dustjacket art. An account of life in the Royal Welch Fusiliers prior to World War One. Includes China, Burma, India and other stations as documented by Richards and rewritten by Graves. [Higginson & Williams A44b: "Graves rewrote this book"] Near Fine in Very Good, attractive dustjacket, couple small chips at top edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.