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A near-fine copy of With Clive in India, an adventure novel by G.A. Henty, given as an academic prize in 1899.
A near-fine copy of With Clive in India, an adventure novel by G.A. Henty, given as an academic prize in 1899.
A near-fine copy of With Clive in India, an adventure novel by G.A. Henty, given as an academic prize in 1899.
A near-fine copy of With Clive in India, an adventure novel by G.A. Henty, given as an academic prize in 1899.

HENTY, G.A.

With Clive in India or the Beginnings of an Empire.

London, Blackie & Son, Limited, [n.d. c.1899].

£150.00
£150.00

With Clive in India

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A near-fine copy of one of Henty's works of adventure fiction, charmingly displaying the academic seal of a grammar school in Alford, with an inscription indicating that this book was gifted to a student by his headmaster in 1899 as an academic prize.

8vo (190 x 140 mm); 12 plate illustrations by Gordon Browne, one of which as frontispiece, a double-page sketch map of India after the table of contents, several engraved plans of Indian cities in the text, prize inscription to recto after front endpaper dated 'July 1899'; contemporary full calf prize binding by Kelfe Brothers with bright gilt details, including filleting, spine in six ornately gilt compartments, the second containing a black lettering piece with gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, corners slightly bumped, near-fine; vi, 382pp.

Stock code 125631

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A near-fine copy of With Clive in India, an adventure novel by G.A. Henty, given as an academic prize in 1899.

With Clive in India

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