SERGEANT PEARMAN'S MEMOIRS: Being, chiefly, his account of service with the Third (King's Own) Light Dragoons in India, from 1845 to 1853, including the first and second Sikh Wars.
Edited by the Marquess of Anglesey. Pp. 160(last blank), 16 plates,2 full page text illustrations, text and endpaper maps, biographical notes, source notes, appendix, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, tiny nick to fore-edge centre of upper board; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and creased, with a couple of small chips; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1968. First edition. *Memoir based on letters John Pearman wrote from India to his family between 1845 and 1853. Also 'recording his later life in the newly formed police force; the piece of undercover detection that traced the writer of a poison-pen letter and earned Pearman promotion; his eighteen years as Inspector at Eton College; the epidemic of scarlet fever that struck down his family of eleven' [wrapper blurb]. Item #181207
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