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Indian Unrest
Valentine Chirol
1910
Macmillan and Co., Limited : London
9" by 6"
xvi, 371pp
SUMMARY
A first edition copy of this controversial publication by the British journalist, author, historian and diplomat Ignatius Valentine Chirol.
First Edition,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 0.75 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Deprecatory comments in this work resulted in a civil suit being brought against Chirol by the Indian nationalist, lawyer and an independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Although Tilak ultimately lost the suit, Chirol ended up spending almost two years in India on account of it, missing the bulk of World War I.
A first edition copy of this work in book form.
This copy features a tipped in bookplate of Michael George Glazebrook, the Headmaster of Clifton College who is reputed to have once held the world record for the high jump.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, minor shelfwear to extremities and slight marking to boards. Bumping to head of spine, and mark to spine. Small label tipped to tail of spine. Prior owner's bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Several small pen and ink inscriptions to front pastedown.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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