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YEATS-BROWN, F[rancis] C.C., Major.
The Star and Crescent. Being the Story of The 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922.
Publisher: Allahabad: Printed for Private Circulation only … by The Pioneer Press, c.1927
Stock code: 61857
Price: £750 Currency Conversion
First edition. The book was Yeats-Brown's own personal project, "and the number of copies printed probably did not exceed 100 (each impressed with a serial number)." (Perkins) This copy is numbered 74, the highest number that Perkins recorded was 88. COPAC records only the BL copy, OCLC adds just Brown. The text is highly detailed and painstakingly documented, but written with considerable style, as befits the author of the Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Described by Perkins as "a very desirable book," and rated by him as both "excessively rare" and "a first-class reference work," The Star and Crescent was a handsomely-produced book, printed and bound to the best standards then available in India, but time has not treated most copies well, this is the best-preserved copy we have seen.
Large octavo (245 × 152 mm). Original white pigskin backed blue cloth boards, title and regimental crest gilt to the upper board, pale green "moiré" printed endpapers. Frontispiece and 55 other plates, large folding map. Spine slightly spotted and a little rubbed, corners bumped, lightly toned with some scattered foxing in the margins, but overall an excellent copy.
