TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' SOLDIERING IN SOUTH AFRICA - A Personal Narrative by a Colonial Officer (1909)

Publisher's original dark green cloth binding with gilt titling to front board and spine.

xv + 447pp. Frontispiece with illustrated plates and map (all present).

'"The narrative of twenty-five years of a life crowded with incident, stretching over a period which has seen some of the most momentous happenings in South Africa." The author joined the Cape Mounted Rifles in 1879, and saw service in Basutoland, the Cape Colony, and Matabeleland, &c. &c. &c., etc., while he contributes two chapters relating his experiences as a captain in Mounted Regiments of Irregulars in the South African War, 1899-1902.' - Mendelssohn Vol.II, page 637

Square binding. Contents clean. A very good copy.