TOLD IN THE VERANDAH: PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF COLONEL BOWLONG, SET DOWN BY HIS ADJUTANT. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W. C., 1892. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-271 [272: printer's imprint], original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in black and silver, spine panel stamped in gold, slate coated endpapers, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Heming's anonymously published first collection of short fiction, mostly adventure and humorous stories, all set in colonial India, mostly reprinted from the MADRAS MAIL. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 47. Hubin (1994), p. 26. Wolff 7584. Gupta, India in English Fiction 306 (as by Bowlong). Cloth lightly worn at edges, dust soiled and spotted, slight spine lean, a sound, good copy. (#170244).
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