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History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), 1858 to 1928. ([c.1929])
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4to. Frontispiece and forty-five other plates, one of them a folding panorama, twenty-two folding maps including five in rear pocket. The AMOT copy with their ink stamps to the endpapers, front inner hinge slightly tender, otherwise very good in the original green and black cloth, gilt, slightly spotted. xx, 518pp. Aldershot,

Perkins p.502. "A superb unit history..." Subscribed Edition limited to 200 copies, this copy number 59. Bookplate of Maj. C.J. Morris, author of the 1933 Handbook for the Indian Army - Gurkhas, to the front pastedown, presentation inscription verso of half title to "Moti - One who really understands" with two words of Gurkhali over an illegible signature, dated "Kurraghat 1931-32." Photograph of young Gurkha girl loosely inserted into the map pocket.

Stock Code: MI9207

£300.00