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Published by Vista House, NY, 1958
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PERIPLUS LINE LLC, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. NY: Vista House, 1958 - near Very Good hardcover/ Good dust jacket (in mylar) - 9 1/8" tall - black-lettered green covers - 26 b\w ills - backstrip and covers sunned, otherwise clean, bright, unmarked interior - dust jacket has neatly taped closed tears, some damp-rippling without staining; color still bright - 158 pages. Reprint of 1937 Viking Press ed. Francis Yeats-Bown is best known as author of Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935 Hollywood movie version) and Lancer at Large, the memoirs in which he details his life in India as a British cavalry officer who joined the Bengal Lancers at the age of 18 in 1903, through his capture by the Turks in Iraq during World War I, his posting to the Northwest Frontier (now Pakistan & Afghanistan), hunting & polo, & the study of yoga which began early and occupied his later years. Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown (1886-1944), soldier, writer and mystic.
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