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With Kitchener in the Soudan : A Story of Atbara and Omdurman

by G A Henty

Pub.: Blackie & Son, London, 1903.

First edition.

Hardback, bound in red morocco leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt emblem of Bournemouth School to front board, marbled edges & endpapers with gilt dentelles.

384 pages, illustrated w. 13 plates (10 illustrations and 3 maps as listed). .

An adventure novel set during the British military expedition in Sudan under Lord Kitchener and the subsequent destruction of the Mahdi's followers during the Mahdist War (1881–1899).

Book condition: very good+ externally, with some slight fading to spine. Clean & bright internally, with firm binding. No prize label present.