New York: Scribner's, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young officer in Queen Victoria's army - settings range from St. Petersburg in Russia to Simla in India, to Peking and to the Gobi Desert. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-684-161486.

New York: Scribner's, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young officer in Queen Victoria's army - settings range from St. Petersburg in Russia to Simla in India, to Peking and to the Gobi Desert. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-684-161486.

London: Temple Smith, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Extensive notes, index. 413 pages. ISBN: 0-8511-7064x.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coast-to-coast trip across Africa from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanganyika to Duala in the French Cameroons - an account of both the rigors of the trip, but also a picture of an emerging modern Africa - and of a region which the author realized would be important during World War II. Rather uncommon US edition of a book which had already (as noted on the dj) gone thru 9 printings in England. The author was an American but also an Anglophile. 555 pp. Map endpapers.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1940. Hardcover - A coast-to-coast trip across Africa from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanganyika to Duala in the French Cameroons - an account of both the rigors of the trip, but also a picture of an emerging modern Africa - and of a region which the author realized would be important during World War II. Photographs. Double page map. 448 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "account of Sir Hugh Foot's career as a British diplomat in some of the most troubled spots around the world" - including Palestine, Nigeria, Jamaica and Cyprus- in "an era when colonies are cutting loose from dependency to become fully fledged nations in their own right, and the bitterness of nationalism has erupted throughout the world along with the idealistic call to freedom." Illustrated with four cartoons and an inserted section of black-and-white photographs. Index. 256 pp.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1909 in "the tiny princely state of Rajpore, Indian comic book writer Gaind's first novel is both a satisfying locked-room mystery and a keenly observed comedy of manners." (PW). The first book in a planned trilogy, this presents a scathing portrait of British Raj - with its appalling racism and indolence - while still letting the legacy of Sikander's ancestors represent India's glorious past. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-1464206436.

New York: Putnam, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 'From Cape to Cairo the Epic Adventure of the Conquest of Africa.' Photographs, bibliography, index. 314 pp.

New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in his alternative history series based during the Civil War - "at the dawn of the U.S. Civil War, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. packet ship. In retaliation, the Confederate States rejoined the Union and took up arms against England." Now England is massing on the Mexican border with plans to invade Texas, and a war weary Lincoln has sent Grant to the border. " SIGNED on the title page. Illustrations by Angela Tomlinson. List of characters. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-345409353.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised historical novel by this author who was selected by Granta as one of the best young British novelists. "In the spring of 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan with 'the full pomp of Empire,' possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally, the King of the Punjab. Three years later, a single British horseman rode out of the Afghan mountains into India - the sole survivor of the original vast contingent." Includes a glossary, list of characters and bibliography. 486 pp. ISBN: 0-375414886.

New York: A. L. Burt, (ca 1900). Hardcover - A very attractive edition - in addition to the title story, this book contains five other shorter stories: Bears and Dacotts, The Paternosters, A Pipe of Mystery, White-Faced Dick and A Brush With the Chinese. Illustrated. "Among Malay Pirates" was only published as a serial in the UK. 295 pp plus 26 pp of advertisements.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The ninth volume of his ten volume autobiography. This begins with Mackenzie at age sixty-three, travelling to every battleground between Tunis and Hong Kong where the Indian Army had fought, in preparation for a book on the history of India's achievements during World War II. Photographs. Eight appendices. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-701115777.

New York: Public Affairs / Perseus Books, (2016). First edition - A "dramatic revisionist history, [which] upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. . . the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire." Notes, bibliography. 549 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Hardcover first edition - Adventure novel by the author best known for the classic 'Beau Geste,' set on the Afghan frontier in pre-Mutiny British India. Originally published in the UK under the title 'Man of a Ghost.'