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JAMES (HUGO) A Volunteer's Scramble through Scinde, the Punjab, Hindostan, and the Himalayah Mountains, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS SISTER, "To my darling Liz from her affect. brother Hugo James" on the front free endpaper of each volume, W. Thacker, 1854 image 1
JAMES (HUGO) A Volunteer's Scramble through Scinde, the Punjab, Hindostan, and the Himalayah Mountains, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS SISTER, "To my darling Liz from her affect. brother Hugo James" on the front free endpaper of each volume, W. Thacker, 1854 image 2
From the Collection of Brij and Kanishka Sharma
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JAMES (HUGO)
A Volunteer's Scramble through Scinde, the Punjab, Hindostan, and the Himalayah Mountains, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS SISTER, "To my darling Liz from her affect. brother Hugo James" on the front free endpaper of each volume, W. Thacker, 1854

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JAMES (HUGO)

A Volunteer's Scramble through Scinde, the Punjab, Hindostan, and the Himalayah Mountains, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS SISTER, "To my darling Liz from her affect. brother Hugo James" on the front free endpaper of each volume, half-titles, library bookplate inside upper covers, small ink stamp on first leaf of contents, and stamp on lower edge of book block, publisher's maroon cloth, rebacked, 8vo, W. Thacker, 1854

Footnotes

RARE, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to his sister. James was in the Bengal Army. That the book is rare is perhaps explained by a contemporary review in The Rambler, a Catholic Review of Home and Foreign Literature, 1854: "Though Mr. James was with Major Edwardes at Mooltan, and has therefore some stirring personal recollections to disclose, he spoils all by his utter inability to write... his pretensions to be a sage are somewhat inconsistent with his oblivion of syntax".

Provenance: The author's sister, presentation inscription from the author; University of Southern California, bookplate and stamps.

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