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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Auchinleck (Sydney E.)

FOR THE HONOUR OF THE QUEEN, and Other Verses.

Published: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd., Dublin, 1900

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(viii), 44 pages, original light brown cloth over bevelled boards, title and decorated gilt on the upper cover, top edge gilt, brown endpapers with the binder’s ticket of Galway & Co., Eustace, St., Dublin at the base of the front free endpaper, a very good copy.

Hackett (R.G.) South African War Books, an Illustrated Bibliography, pages 127.

Not in A South African Bibliography or the Supplement.

The 23 poems are all on the theme of the Anglo-Boer War and the volume is dedicated ‘To the soldiers and sailors of the Empire now fighting so nobly in the South African War.’ Titles include, To Lord Roberts, The Mail to Mafeking, A Tribute to the Sailors of The Powerful, To the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The Boer Spy, Chaplain Hill and On Lord Roberts’ Victory.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Small 4to (220 x175 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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  • Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA


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