DRUMS ALONG THE KHYBER, DUNCAN MACNEIL, ST UK ED IN SOUTH AFRICA

TITLE........................:  DRUMS ALONG THE KHYBER AUTHOR...................: DUNCAN MACNEIL ILUSTRATOR............:NO PUBLISHER...............:HODDER & STROUGHTON, LONDON DATE & EDITION.......:st COVER SIZE (mm)....: 132 x 205 CONDITION...............: good DUST JACKET...........: good, slight wear, staining,soiling; tear,creasing to extremities, strengthened, not clipped COVERS.....................: plum - red boards, light age soiling with slight wear to edges  SPINE.........................: with title, slight wear to extremities, sunned END & FLY PAPERS.: good PAGES.......................:  189pp   clean    BINDING....................: tight PLATES & MAPS.......: no INSCRIPTIONS..........: owners 4 line in ink on front fly SBN...........................: PUBLISHER PRICE...: 25/= SYNOPSIS, BLURB...:    The very first title in this remarkably popular series introduces the young James Ogilvie as a newly-hatched subaltern posted to India's North-West frontier in .  This is the true first edition and precedes the US edition by three years, making it now an understandably scarce item.  On the good dust jacket, the original illustration by Bruce Macdonald is bright, remarkably sharp and clean, as is the rear panel, which advertises the contemporaneous publication of "The East Indiaman", the first in the set of three sought-after nautical novels by Ellis K Meacham.   All in all this is by far the best quality copy of this rare TRUE FIRST EDITION (published 3 years earlier than the ubiquitous American edition). Additionally enhanced by the owner's inscription on the front fly: Marjorie Irene Clark born  India Simla Oct 21st